Wikisource:Administrators/Archives/Inductiveload

2010-04 admin

 * I would like to present to the community a nomination for Inductiveload to come and join us on the Administrator benches.

Inductiveload came to us in interesting circumstances where he had a lovely quality scan of a non-English work (Deutsche Pomologie), and despite best efforts, he was unable to have the work at deWS. Then what started as a visit from his normal haunt of Commons, has now become a fully fledged adoption. In his relatively short time with us he has been working in Scriptorium, RecentChanges, building templates, looking at tools, bringing images, building djvu, helping visitors in IRC and generally doing quality moppish things that help to make this a better place to be (all great skills from his pre-training at Commons). I believe that his positive and enthusiastic approach has been most helpful to the community, models the behaviour and culture that we wish for and that he will continue to make valuable contributions to enWS. — billinghurst  sDrewth  08:59, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Accept nomination Thank you for consideration! Inductiveload (talk) 12:29, 19 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Support. It's a little early for my tastes, but that can be overlooked for such a fine candidate. Hesperian 10:30, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. I like WS's practice of giving the admin tools as soon as an user has made enough contributions to show a steady interest and that they have learned most of the policies and guidelines. This is clearly true of Inductiveload. Thank you for volunteering to do more work. :-) FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 22:16, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. even with as little as I have been around, I can see this is a great idea. Jeepday (talk) 23:57, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. Seems busy and doing well. Cheers, Jack Merridew 04:06, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. Phe (talk) 12:29, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. No worries, -- Cirt (talk) 04:07, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. --Zyephyrus (talk) 08:01, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. He is a good egg. Hopefully, being an admin won't make him hard boiled! :P  Seriously 110% support. Great work and a good contributor. :) --Mattwj2002 (talk) 10:20, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support; welcome aboard. —Spangineerwp (háblame) 13:11, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Appointed--Birgitte SB  11:56, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

2011-05 confirmation

 * support 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) 21:53, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support - Beeswaxcandle (talk) 05:46, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support I can't say enough good stuff about Inductiveload. He does some awesome custom bot work.  Contributes a lot to the project.  He is smart, friendly, and helpful.  Great asset to the team. Total support.  --Mattwj2002 (talk) 05:51, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support, with no reservations. No doubt in my mind that he will do the job well. Blurpeace  06:02, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support — ResScholar (talk) 03:38, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support.--Jusjih (talk) 08:26, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * confirmed — billinghurst  sDrewth  15:05, 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 though we should whip his arse for his slothfulness — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:19, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
 * keep — Ineuw talk 19:19, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
 * keep--Jusjih (talk) 18:30, 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)

2013-07 confirmation

 * Symbol support vote.svg Support --EncycloPetey (talk) 06:03, 1 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Support, has been highly active at Wikidata, maybe will stop back by a little more often? JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 14:41, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. --Zyephyrus (talk) 20:17, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * . —Clockery Fairfield (talk) 05:26, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, hoping he will come back from real life soon ... :-) --Mpaa (talk) 22:02, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * —Maury (talk) 03:31, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Most ceytainly (yuk yuk) — Ineuw talk 10:44, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Beeswaxcandle (talk) 04:53, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 * --Jusjih (talk) 02:38, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
 * — billinghurst  sDrewth  13:24, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * - AdamBMorgan (talk) 19:13, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
 * — George Orwell III (talk) 20:51, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

2014-08 confirmation

 * Note: Last edit here was on 23 November 2013; 20 edits since 1 August 2013; not currently active on any Wikimedia project. Hesperian 00:46, 1 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Give a chance to resign if appropriate. AuFCL (talk) 08:20, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * (Also applies to discussions below and elsewhere; You all ought to be horrified that with my reputation I have to lecture you on proper behaviour.) I feel there is a risk of conflating at least three completely independent issues going on here:
 * Edit skills (the administration vote is never the right place to assess/comment upon this and must never be taken as criticism of unrelated or unaddressed matters.)
 * Security issues (inactivity is never an indication of security failure; if it were why are normal user accounts not suspended after periods of inactivity? Be consistent.)
 * Administration skills/mores/behaviour/attitudes (kindly address the issue; attempt to explain misunderstandings; don't shut down discussion on the basis of selfish discomfort; don't shoot the messenger simply because you lack the courage to address underlying problems; don't actively try to make a bad situation worse even if you believe your intentions are good. Attempt to balance the inevitable conflict between the previous guidelines.)
 * I had better bracket sign the above for those who don't read differences. AuFCL (talk) 21:42, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Not entirely sure what brought this on, but no one has suggested there has been security failure. I opposed reconfirmation in accordance with the general principles of restricted access, as linked above these voting sections. An admin has restricted access (that's what it's called) that a normal user does not. A hacked normal account cannot mess with the site in the same way that a hacked admin account can. Inactive admins are desysoped as a preventative measure; we shouldn't wait for a serious problem to occur. My comments with my vote serve to indicate that no action or failure on the part of the admin has been seen; it is merely a preventative measure. --EncycloPetey (talk) 08:17, 3 August 2014 (UTC)


 * --Zyephyrus (talk) 16:47, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * --Ineuw (talk) 18:50, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I support Inductiveload because of his invaluable contributions to WS and hope that he'll return soon. In the meantime, his footprints are visible all over the web, and keep bumping into him.Ineuw (talk) 03:50, 4 August 2014 (UTC)


 * in the hope he returns soon. —Clockery Fairfeld (ƒ=ma) 11:40, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * for security reasons through inactivity. I would have no problems with quick reinstatement as admin should this editor return. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:14, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Essentially inactive: if they come back I would encourage self nomination for return of tools. Jeepday (talk) 16:38, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * --Mpaa (talk) 13:26, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * —Maury (talk) 07:33, 4 August 2014 (UTC) There are several if not many people here on wikisource that I will always "support" and Inductiveload is among the top of them even if he only visited once a year. I had problems with a white background hurting my eyes and I asked Inductiveload if he could create a colored background. He did that and more inc. colored text. ONLY because he did created that anti-Eye-Strain javascript that I have been able to continue on wikisource which is the reason I am still here. The background I use is light grey and the text is black. It is because of people like Inductiveload, and there are many with different skills, that wikisource exists and continues to exist.
 * — billinghurst  sDrewth  23:54, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * — Being inactive is a security risk. Refreshing the large number of tools/scripts he generated would go a long way here towards reinstatement upon his return. — George Orwell III (talk) 21:56, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * . Long inactivity risks security and I see no unique language skills of this user. We do have other French- and German-speaking administrators.--Jusjih (talk) 05:10, 18 August 2014 (UTC) (your unique Chinese- and Korean-speaking administrator, but my Korean is still very limited)
 * Given their recent contribution history they're about due for another burst of editing. If that doesn't manifest then I'll vote down their next confirmation for security's sake. Prosody (talk) 00:30, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * solely on the ground of inactivity per WS:AP. No problems from my perspective with regaining the tools upon return. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 01:39, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

2015-09 confirmation (unsuccessful)

 * ''Note: last edit here 23 November 2013. Most recent global edits 19 January 2015. Hesperian 04:16, 1 September 2015 (UTC)


 * . If their user page still is a useful tool in 2015 (and I think it might be so), I'd rather try one year more. --Zyephyrus (talk) 09:33, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ineuw talk 04:50, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * desysop through inactivity only. I talked to him a couple of months back in IRC and he won't be back any time soon. When he is back, I will happily nominate him and ask for his tools to be returned. He still hangs around in IRC, so I will give him a kick in the goolies to let us know what is happening. — billinghurst  sDrewth  13:54, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * desysop per our policy on inactive admins. The bar for getting the tools back would be very low upon a return to active status. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 05:56, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * desysop per our policy on inactive admins.— Agree the road to reinstatement would be short if he ever decides to return. -- George Orwell III (talk) 05:26, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * desysop for inactivity.--Jusjih (talk) 02:28, 18 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Removal of access requested.[//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests%2FPermissions&type=revision&diff=13894615&oldid=13885408] Hesperian 01:57, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Actioned.[//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests%2FPermissions&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=13896158&oldid=13894615#Inductiveload.40enwikisource] Hesperian 05:19, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

2020-06 admin
has been active again for a while now, after going inactive back in 2015, and after some gentle prodding has agreed to pick up the mop again. Instead of singing their praises I'm just going to go ahead and link to Billinghurst's original nom back in 2010. I'll just add for my own part that when the bit was removed for inactivity, almost every single voting user either supported retaining the bit or explicitly specified preemptive support for reinstatement when they returned. --Xover (talk) 15:42, 4 June 2020 (UTC)


 * . I can find no flaw in the above reasoning. BD2412 T 16:30, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * --Zyephyrus (talk) 17:42, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * support; used the tools well, and scripting skills would be useful on protected pages — billinghurst  sDrewth  00:07, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
 * . Looks too busy to use edit summaries.--Jusjih (talk) 01:20, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * per nom and above --DannyS712 (talk) 09:30, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * --Jan Kameníček (talk) 15:54, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * ミラP 06:44, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Granted. Hesperian 00:29, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

2021-08 confirmation

 * --Zyephyrus (talk) 18:13, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * --DannyS712 (talk) 01:47, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
 * --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:28, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
 * : More edit summaries would be better. Page namespace is not the concern here.--Jusjih (talk) 21:37, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
 * --Jan Kameníček (talk) 07:13, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh alright then. --Xover (talk) 10:33, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

2022-09 confirmation

 * --Jan Kameníček (talk) 18:13, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
 * PseudoSkull (talk) 18:32, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
 * --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:45, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
 * --Zyephyrus (talk) 14:55, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * --Jusjih (talk) 19:36, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

2023-10 confirmation

 * miss ya PseudoSkull (talk) 16:07, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
 * looks good to me assuming they want to keep the rights --DannyS712 (talk) 20:00, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
 * --Xover (talk) 05:30, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
 * --Jan Kameníček (talk) 11:18, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Weakly . Inactive for 100 days?--Jusjih (talk) 04:43, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
 * --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:54, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * -- Zyephyrus (talk) 20:14, 8 October 2023 (UTC)