On break since 7/30/2025.

CentralAuth | English Wikipedia | Tamil Wikivoyage | Commons | Meta

Elevated roles: Unprivileged

I define "key position of trust" as a user group that itself grants at least one formally restrictive right:

• abusefilter-modify
• block
• centralauth-lock
• checkuser
• hideuser
• globalblock
• userrights (even if partial)

This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know.

This user has extended confirmed rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify·CA)

This user has been on Wikimedia Projects for 3 years, 11 months and 6 days.

4,000+

This user has made over 4,000 contributions to Wikimedia projects. (total)

Languages: en-N, ta-2, cs-1, sk-1

Wikis most active:

• English Wikipedia (ENWP)
• Meta (META)
• Commons (CMNS)
• Tamil Wikivoyage (TAWY, Incubator)

I have never edited under another account, and I do not use an alternate account.

I've been targeted by drive-by vandals on Meta 5 times.

• Do not make adminship your primary goal, and only apply when plugging values into the appropriate formula below says you are ready.
• Do not try to enforce your own standards for process and suggest them instead in appropriate places.
• If you edit Wikibooks or Wikivoyage, only edit based on your first-hand experience.
• Except in the case of obvious harassment, assume that administrators are right.
• If you are blocked on a wiki, avoid interacting with relevant users on other wikis.

On ENWP:

• When I moved the article Multivariate logistic regression into mainspace, it was already longer than Katherina Kubenk!
• When I moved the article Satellite gravity into mainspace, it was already longer than Trams in Navapolatsk!

• Alternate between:
  • editing articles until you dominate them until they make up 45% of your edit count among namespaces (main), User talk, and Project.
  • helping in admin-related areas until a non-mainspace namespace becomes your namespace with most edits.

Content projects: (1/40 * years on the site + (3 on Wikipedias, 10 on other wikis) * (edits + edits to administrative pages + user talk page edits / 4) / 40000) * (1 + .1 for each actively used advanced right on any wiki + .25 for each other wiki one is already an administrator of) * (1 - 0.1 * informal sanctions (i.e. bans, partial blocks) in the past 6 months - 0.25 * sitewide blocks on any wiki in the past year)

Coordination projects and stewardship: (1/40 * years on Wikimedia + (edits (global) + local edits + edits to administrative pages (local) + user talk page edits / 4) / 60000) * (1 + .1 for each actively used advanced right on any wiki + .5 for each other wiki one is already an administrator of + .25 * (number of languages active in - 1)) * (1 - 0.1 * informal sanctions (i.e. bans, partial blocks) in the past 6 months - 0.25 * sitewide blocks on any wiki in the past year)

English Wikipedia: 31.4% ⬤ editing in mainspace only

Commons: 6.1% (-40 months) ⬤ working in administrative areas only

Meta: 21.2% ⬤ working in administrative areas only

The best way to oppose an RfA of a candidate who is on the right track and will be ready after some more time is to give them constructive feedback on their contributions and to explain why you oppose the RfA anyway, for example:

•  Oppose I appreciate how you have created and expanded many articles on the English Wikipedia and fight vandalism from time to time, but I am opposing because you have made 6,000 edits so far. I will be happy to accept once you have made more than 8,000 edits.
•  Oppose I appreciate your extensive contributions on English Wikipedia and that you are an active administrator on Tamil Wikivoyage, but you have only made 500 edits here on Meta.
•  Oppose I like how you are an administrator on both English Wikipedia and Tamil Wikivoyage, but you aren't active enough on Meta. Once you become more active, I will be more than happy to support you.
•  Oppose I appreciate how you have a clean track record here on Wikipedia, but you have an active ban on Wikivoyage. Once you resolve the problems related to the ban, I will be happy to support you.

Just to clarify, I am not an administrator anywhere.

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18. 24 months
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20. 60 months
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