Wikisource:Administrators/Archives/GrafZahl


 * For GrafZahl's administrator-bot account, see Administrators/Archives/TalBot.

2006-12 admin

 * For the sake of archival, the bundled nomination has been duplicated for each user.

This is a bundled self-nomination. The first applicant is the bot of the second applicant.

By request, I'm planning to do soft redirect maintenance using the pywikipedia script User:TalBot/rm-soft-redir.py. This involves the deletion of hundreds of pages, so a bot with sysop privileges is needed. The script was tested in several dry runs directly on Wikisource. The log of the run on Category:Soft redirects/September 2006 is available at User:TalBot/rm-soft-redir.py/test.log (943kb).

TalBot is active since October 2006 and was granted official bot status about a month later. It has since run and completed several tasks, making thousands of automated edits and page moves in the process.

I (GrafZahl) am active since June 2006. At the moment, most of my Wikisource time flows into operating and maintaining TalBot and writing bot scripts for users requesting tasks, but occasionally I work a little on some of James Clerk Maxwell's works or scan some pages from a book. A bot operator sometimes has to clean up after the bot, and with a sysop bot, this might require sysop rights. Otherwise, I missed the admin buttons very little. But it seems natural that the amount of community trust granted to the bot operator should never be smaller than the amount granted the bot.

I'd like to ask for a single vote for the both of us, because there is not much point in giving sysop rights to only one of us.

Lastly, I should point out the alternative of giving the bot of an established administrator sysop rights and let it run the script. This might slow down things very slightly due to the additional communications channel incurred, but is otherwise just as good.

--GrafZahl 14:58, 15 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Support both. GrafZahl has been a strong contributor since early June and has demonstrated a skill in programming that makes them an ideal choice for running an administrative bot. Their messages on various talk pages show unfailing politeness and helpfulness, qualities every administrator should have. — {admin} Pathoschild 19:35, 16 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Support both --Benn Newman (AMDG) 01:31, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Support both --BirgitteSB 01:36, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Support both; GrafZahl and his ;-) bot have done great work so far. --Spangineerwp (háblame) 00:25, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Support both--Jusjih 15:24, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Support both - Politicaljunkie 00:26, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Appointed.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 19:14, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

2008-02 confirmation

 * I support both accounts' continued adminship, per my archived comment: "GrafZahl has been a strong contributor since early June [2006] and has demonstrated a skill in programming that makes them an ideal choice for running an administrative bot. Their messages on various talk pages show unfailing politeness and helpfulness, qualities every administrator should have." — {admin} Pathoschild 23:35:41, 02 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Support reconfirmation per contributions and Pathoschild's comments. ++Lar: t/c 17:19, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Yann 09:08, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Support John Vandenberg (chat) 09:15, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * support ThomasV 11:27, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Good chap.-- Poetlister 22:20, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Support--Birgitte SB  22:37, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Looks like a keeper. :-) Thanks for your contributions to Wikisource. FloNight 01:49, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Support per Pathoschild. Cowardly Lion 01:18, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Support—Zhaladshar (Talk) 16:58, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Support - Politicaljunkie 19:28, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Support--Cato 00:44, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Unanimously kept. — {admin} Pathoschild 09:43:27, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

2009-03 confirmation

 * Support -- billinghurst (talk) 03:32, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * John Vandenberg (chat) 09:22, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Unanimous keep. Jude (talk) 07:08, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

2010-04 confirmation

 * Keep — billinghurst  sDrewth  09:39, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep —Zyephyrus (talk) 20:47, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Hesperian 00:19, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. John Vandenberg (chat) 16:24, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. I decided for sure I'd be voting keep when I found out his name means Count Number.  Apparently it's (uncoincidentally?) a foreign translation of the name of the Count on Sesame Street as well. ResScholar (talk) 06:33, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep — §  stay  ( sic ) ! 10:51, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. -- Cirt (talk) 02:56, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep--Jusjih (talk) 03:16, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep --Mattwj2002 (talk) 22:19, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Confirmed.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 00:36, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

and User:TalBot

 * support for both without question — billinghurst  sDrewth  12:32, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support Hesperian 12:35, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support — George Orwell III ( talk ) 12:57, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support -- Zyephyrus (talk) 21:52, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support - Beeswaxcandle (talk) 05:46, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support --Mattwj2002 (talk) 05:49, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support --Inductiveload—talk/contribs  02:08, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support — ResScholar (talk) 03:38, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support both.--Jusjih (talk) 08:25, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Confirmed — billinghurst  sDrewth  15:04, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

2012-06 confirmation

 * keep --Zyephyrus (talk) 17:23, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * keep--Mpaa (talk) 21:02, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * keep — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:19, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
 * keep — Ineuw talk 19:19, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
 * keep--Jusjih (talk) 18:21, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * keep - AdamBMorgan (talk) 20:53, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * keep - John Vandenberg (chat) 14:27, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
 * keep Bennylin (talk) 17:08, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

2012-07 confirmation (Talbot)

 * Note: Previously TalBot has been confirmed along with its owner GrafZahl. However I didn't make this clear during GrafZahl's confirmation last month, so we'll have to do it separately this time. Hesperian 01:49, 1 July 2012 (UTC)


 * support as per user, last month — billinghurst  sDrewth  14:54, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * support --Zyephyrus (talk) 23:43, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Support — George Orwell III (talk) 11:19, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Support--Mpaa (talk) 21:17, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Support --Eliyak T · C 17:24, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * support — Ineuw talk 17:37, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Support - AdamBMorgan (talk) 13:15, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Support — William Maury Morris II (talk) 05:46, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Support—Beeswaxcandle (talk) 07:36, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Support--Jusjih (talk) 17:00, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

2013-07 confirmation

 * Note: TalBot’s admin status and continued bot flag are dependent on the outcome of GrafZahl’s admin confirmation.JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday)


 * Symbol abstain vote.svg Abstain This editor has made fewer than 6 edits in the past year, but that could always change at a moment's notice. I just have no basis for a vote. --EncycloPetey (talk) 06:03, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. GrafZahl has been under-active but on review of crosswiki indicates the user is still peaking in around the WMF sites. While I would generally like to see more edits and activity, the little activity I do, indicates a continued interest and that the account is secure. This user is also the owner of the only admin bot on wikisource, I am giving extra credit for activity on MediaWiki. Grafzahl has had decreasing activity in the last few years, hopefully that will pick back up, though if the trend continues… JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 10:55, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. --Zyephyrus (talk) 20:17, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * —Clockery Fairfield (talk) 05:26, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * --Mpaa (talk) 22:02, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * —Maury (talk) 03:34, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I don’t know this admin. — Ineuw talk 10:44, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support—Focus was on the Score extension, which means he was working for and with us, just not making edits here. Hopefully, now that it's in he will come back to us. The dated soft redirects are missing him. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 04:51, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 * . Hopefully this administrator will return.--Jusjih (talk) 02:38, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Full support in the person, though I believe that RL has him going other directions, especially taking into consideration his comments after Extension:Score was released. No harm will be done with rights retained for another year. — billinghurst  sDrewth  13:24, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * , partly due to his work on the Score extension. AdamBMorgan (talk) 19:13, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol abstain vote.svg Abstain this time; Oppose next time if things remain the same. Fewer than 6 edits is not really active for someone who has a BOT with the Admin. bit in my view. -- George Orwell III (talk) 20:51, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

2014-08 confirmation

 * Note: TalBot's admin status and continued bot flag are dependent on the outcome of GrafZahl's admin confirmation. Hesperian 00:46, 1 August 2014 (UTC)


 * both GrafZahl and TalBot. AuFCL (talk) 08:20, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * both GrafZahl and TalBot. --Zyephyrus (talk) 16:29, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * both--Ineuw (talk) 18:50, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * same goes for TalBot. —Clockery Fairfeld (ƒ=ma) 11:40, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:14, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * --Mpaa (talk) 13:26, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * — billinghurst  sDrewth  23:54, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * — Both. — George Orwell III (talk) 21:56, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * both GrafZahl and TalBot.--Jusjih (talk) 05:03, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

2015-09 confirmation

 * Note: TalBot's admin status and continued bot flag are dependent on the outcome of GrafZahl's admin confirmation. Hesperian 04:16, 1 September 2015 (UTC)


 * and TalBot too, of course :-)  --Zyephyrus (talk) 16:12, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ineuw talk 04:50, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * — billinghurst  sDrewth  13:54, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * — BD2412 T 12:22, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * — George Orwell III (talk) 05:26, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * --Jusjih (talk) 02:28, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * . -- Cirt (talk) 16:36, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

2016-10 confirmation

 * Note: TalBot's admin status and continued bot flag are dependent on the outcome of GrafZahl's admin confirmation. Hesperian 09:37, 1 October 2016 (UTC)


 * --Zyephyrus (talk) 22:32, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * for both; at this point of time Talbot is our only bot with admin rights to undertake the tasks identified — billinghurst  sDrewth  05:55, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * --Prosfilaes (talk) 23:29, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * BD2412 T 20:29, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:40, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * GrafZahl and TalBot have not been very active during the past few years, and GrafZahl does not seem interested in actively participating in Wikisource at this time. GrafZahl made Talbot available for migration to Wikisource without GrafZahl intervention, and GrafZahl will answer any questions when time allows. But GrafZahl is not significantly active now here on Wikisource, and he/she does not seem to be interested in becoming more active in the forseeable future. I see no point in retaining this user/bot as a Wikisource Administrator. The public assumes that Wikisource Administrators are active on a daily or weekly basis, not every few months or so. That is why I oppose this nomination -- but DEFINITELY with HIGH REGARD to GrafZahl for prior contributions and important bot development for Wikisource. I HOPE this user considers returning to more actively helping Wikisource when time allows! :) -- Outlier59 (talk) 02:38, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * --Jusjih (talk) 04:03, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

2017-11 confirmation (not confirmed)
Removal requested.[//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests%2FPermissions&type=revision&diff=17492647&oldid=17491637] Hesperian 01:37, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Removed[//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests%2FPermissions&type=revision&diff=17492775&oldid=17492759], and I have removed the bot flag. Hesperian 06:25, 1 December 2017 (UTC)