Lourdes (talk·contribs) – Hello everybody. I am Lourdes, presenting my request for adminship, and I believe the season’s first self-nomination. At Wikipedia, I have gained experience writing and editing articles, contributing to the AfD/CSD desks, and chipping in at the UAA/AIV/RFP desks too. During my tenure here, I have gained in my editing experience contributing to a couple of Featured Lists, four Good Articles and seven DYKs. I have a fair exposure to AfDs, !voting in a few AfDs, closing and relisting some. At the CSD desk, in all the articles I have nominated till date, a couple of my noms have been rejected, which were eventually deleted. In all my UAA/AIV/RFP reports till date, I think around two may have been rejected at each desk in all. I also contribute significantly to the Help Desk, helping editors clarify issues, and occasionally, asking my own queries.
I have also written a few scripts for the benefit of editors. The most used is perhaps the Page Curation script; other scripts that I have contributed support the AfD and TFA desks. Occasionally, I also try and contribute to our policies and guidelines to my best capacity. In user accounts, I maintain a bot account, a wikilove account, apart from my original user account, which was renamed to my current username. With these words, my fellow editors, I place my request for adminship across to you. Thank you. Lourdes 18:46, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:
1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?
A: The main areas that I believe I would participate in are the AfD and CSD desks. I would take care to handle the non-complicated and non-controversial cases initially, and then, as time progresses, increase my exposure. Although I have experience at the UAA and AIV desks, I believe it requires quite some experience and judgement to understand nuances in blocking – something I hope to gain slowly over the next six months, post which I may also frequent those desks.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: I have gained in knowledge and enjoyed working on articles across Wikipedia. That’s one reason I think that my best contributions have been the DYKs, GAs, and FLs I have contributed to. Equally, I would also consider my Help Desk contributions as being amongst my best contributions – I have cherished assisting new editors and guiding experienced ones on queries of various types; I hope to continue doing that for a long time.
3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
A: Yes, I have been in conflicts over editing in the past. While in the initial weeks and months at Wikipedia, I have generally ended up embarrassing myself duelling over inconsequential issues, these interactions were the very ones which, over time, taught me the importance of empathy – or rather, looking at an issue from the other person’s point of view. I have realized that we all come from different cultures – and words being the only tools of communication, have to be used absolutely with empathy. In any conflict now, if I feel I’m at fault, I’ve just gone up ahead and apologized. And if the other person’s at fault, I’ve still tried to extend the olive branch before pointing out the mistakes. Thankfully, this approach seems to have helped me find many more friends than foes out here. For those who may be interested, User:Lourdes/Conversations has a few significant interactions/contributions involving me over my tenure here. I would tend to think these are all the skeletons/barnstars in my cupboard, and a mirror to my behaviour in positive and negative situations. Hope it helps interested editors.
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Support – Yay! First support! I have no doubt that she will make a great admin; a WP:NETPOSITIVE for the community. Has an over 94% AfD rate. Yet another bot operator! J947 19:08, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support, net positive by a large margin, one of those "I thought you were an admin already" sort of thing. IazygesConsermonorOpus meum 19:13, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yes; an excellent candidate. I believe we have directly interacted only a few times, but on those occassions, Lourdes has demonstrated nothing but the most professional approach, demonstrating three of the most important qualities: calmness, thoroughness, and a sound knowledge and application of policy and procedure. We could, in short, do far worse. O Fortuna!...Imperatrix mundi. 19:25, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I've seen Lourdes around, and I am confident she will make a good administrator. Class455 (talk|stand clear of the doors!) 19:25, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]