Commons:Administrators/Requests/ZooFari 2

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The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful request for adminship.

Promoted. –Juliancolton | Talk 22:07, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ZooFari

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ZooFari (talk · contributions · deleted user contributions · recent activity · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth)

Scheduled to end: 20:46, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

ZooFari is an active Commons contributor who has been involved since May 2008, and he has since achieved over 9,000 edits. ZooFari has done some excellent work around Commons, especially with deletions and vector graphics. He has the autopatroll, filemover, and rollbacker user permissions. Commons would definitely benefit from having ZooFari as a sysop, and ZooFari would absolutely put the mop to good use. ~NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐) 20:46, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thank you NerdyScienceDude, I accept your nomination. In addition to the above, I'm also an OTRS volunteer where there are limitations when being a non-sysop, for example checking deleted files before restoring. I am also interested in assisting with CommonsDelinker requests and unfree Flickr/Pano/Picasa files. ZooFari 05:35, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

  • Can you explain what you don't agree with? The guidelines state: "Non-admins may close a deletion request as keep if they have a good understanding of the process, and provided the closure is not controversial." --99of9 (talk) 09:01, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
User:AFBorchert handled the problem appropriately. ZooFari's response was not appropriate for an admin.--William S. Saturn (talk) 22:57, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This user tends to oppose when someone disagrees with his actions. --Diego Grez return fire 18:57, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • Could you please explain why you renamed a huge set of photographs uploaded by Butko from their original Russian names to English names despite our policy draft regarding file names that states media files can be uploaded with names in any language in any script and why no discussion with Butko took place? --AFBorchert (talk) 06:59, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • This appears problematic to me too. --99of9 (talk) 07:31, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • Latin is the standard naming convention according to binomial nomenclature rules, see Homo sapiens in ru:wiki. I'm going to propose a revamp of the policy, so I'm bringing this renaming stuff to a halt. ZooFari 15:12, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • There is no policy or consensus that enforces the binomial nomenclature onto names of files that depict some creature. In my experience, not too few uploaders are quite sensitive in regard to how their uploads are named. As we are an international project with many non-English speakers coming from diverse Wikimedia projects, we need to be conservative in regard to file name moves such that users continue to be invited to upload their images here (instead to the local projects) — even if they have no or little knowledge of English (or Latin if it comes to that). I still wonder why no attempt has been made to discuss this with the uploader. --AFBorchert (talk) 21:49, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
          • I've put thought into my actions and agree that this was a bit too controversial. This was not the first time, and I plan to ask Commons talk:File renaming for second-hand thoughts before renaming mass files like these ones in the future. I apologize if I grabbed people's attention needlessly, I respect Docu's oppose. I have dropped a note the on user's talk. ZooFari 00:32, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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