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Fluffernutter (talk · contribs) – Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce Fluffernutter, formerly known as Chaoticfluffy, for your consideration as an administrator. Her record in her few years here is a user who has grown, and whose abilities and knowledge of policy have developed over the years. I first ran into her in the early part of this year, and I have seen her work, on-wiki, and as an OTRS agent, where I have seen her handle BLP subject's communications with a deft touch. Her content work is good, with two GA's, one she essentially rebuilt foundationally, one that she created. She has become adept at the unseen work around here, anti-vandalism, gnoming away small mistakes that creep into so many articles in ref formatting, keeping an eye on incoming spam and potential BLP issues. After watching her work for a few months, giving advice and guidance where I can, I'm confident she can be trusted with access to the sysop's tool kit. I hope you'll agree. Courcelles 03:34, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:
In a slightly more serious vein, though, rogue sentient bots would surely be a problem, but as far as admin powers could help, the only real thing to do here would be to block the bot (assuming there was no emergency stop button, or that the button didn't work). If the bot's destroying, then it's not updating the page(s), nor keeping them functioning, and there's no loss to the encyclopedia by stopping the destruction, especially if we can then dispatch some community troops to clean up the mess and/or do what the bot should have been doing. Block the bot, make sure it doesn't have access to the essential systems of my house or to killer robots from the future, and set about cleaning up the mess.
Those things said, I'll try to give you a general answer based on what you've said. In an area where I have a COI, where I observe problematic conduct that is not an emergency, my first inclination would be to judge whether interacting with the user in question on their talk or the article talk would be useful. Is it possible that a gentle warning, or just some calm engagement and discussion, can help the issue? I feel I would be safely within the bounds of COI to do these things, disclosing my COI to the editor if it was potentially relevant. If my feeling was that one-on-one interaction with me would not be helpful, or if the behavior was immediately disruptive, or if my COI was such that it would not be proper for me to engage on the relevant issue, the next step would be to get further administrator input. As you say, there are a number of venues available for this, but in a case where my handling of the issue could be viewed as problematic due to a COI, the proper step would be to be as transparent as possible and either contact, on-wiki, an uninvolved administrator whom I knew to be neutral with regard to both me and the issue at hand (if I still felt that it was an issue that could be resolved by someone working with the user in question), or post to ANI (if the issue was large, highly problematic, or a hot-topic).
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you without prior warning?
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