Wikiquote:Requests for adminship/~riley

There is a clear consensus in support of this proposed grant of rights. BD2412 T 01:38, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello,

I am going to be bold, recognizing this community only has 4 active administrators, and nominate myself for administrator permissions to help the community grow.

Some of you may only know me by the nonstop vandal attacks that occur on my talk page, others may have seen my category work, anti-vandalism efforts, archiving of our discussion pages or the improvements I have made locally to templates or noticeboards. I have about 4,500 edits here and my favourite project so far is the upgrade of the requested entries page.

Outside of Wikiquote, I am an administrator on Wikimedia Commons where I specialize in copyright licensing and also have an anti-vandalism background as a global administrator across most Wikimedia projects. I have a technical background and am good with templates, MediaWiki pages, and scripting - my work as a global interface admin also brings me here occasionally to work on improving your wiki interface.

If successful in this request, I would improve response time on Vandalism in progress where there are many unanswered requests and help out at Votes for deletion where there is also an admin backlog. As a regular user, I plan to continue verifying quotes added by new users and continue with my category work.

Thank you for your consideration,

~ riley  ( talk  ) 20:05, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Note: As an addition to my original request, I would like to additionally request interface admin rights locally on this project to avoid use of global interface administrator permissions. As stated below by GMG, we currently only have one interface admin. ~ riley  ( talk  ) 21:04, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Vote ends: 15 April 2020 20:05 UTC


 * Support - I've worked with Riley quite a bit in the past. Obviously both of us are administrators on Commons. We need more active admins here, but specifically, we desperately need more active administrators who are tech savvy. No strike against our current cadre, but myself included, we are not all exactly the type of people you really want to go to if you need some troubleshooting on a complex template, much less the kinds of people who know the first thing about something as complex as edit filters or MediaWiki...stuff. As I speak, we have exactly one interface administrator on the entire project, and none of us who could request the right seem to have enough confidence in our competence to put it to good use. That's a pretty big problem, and it's a disservice to the project when I have to look up users like Riley on IRC to try to get them to explain to me how to do the simplest thing technology-wise to try to combat some of our most persistent and troublesome problems.
 * At the end of the day, Riley is committed, trustworthy, and competent with the toolkit across multiple projects. I wish we had a hundred more like him lining up to volunteer.  G M G  talk  13:54, 10 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Support - I have faith that this user will be a great asset for this project and help combat vandalism and other issues. I also echo GreenMeansGo's concerns in that we lack many tech-savvy admins (I for one am certainly not). ~ UDScott (talk) 13:57, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Strong support per the above. He is a competent and highly trusted user. We have also worked together in the past and I do believe that he would be of help to this project as an administrator. --TheSandDoctor (talk) 15:18, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Support He will be an asset to the project as a whole. We worked in meta and I enjoy his collaborative style of work. They are also sound in judgement and willing to take hard decisions for the good of the project. All good traits of an admin. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 16:27, 10 April 2020 (UTC)