Wikisource:Administrators/Archives/Tarmstro99

2007-10 admin
In addition to working on the ongoing projects listed on my user page and reverting vandalism when I see it, I’ve recently been trying to tackle broader issues across the site, such as connecting unlinked pages to the rest of WS (or identifying new orphans), updating categories, and the like. I’ll continue trying to make useful contributions of that sort in any event, but if the site admins can use another pair of hands (or eyeballs), I’d be happy to assist in that capacity also. Tarmstro99 21:40, 30 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I was recently looking through Tarmstro99's contribs as a result of the help given during the recent gibberish vandalism spree, and came away thinking this user looks suitable as an admin.
 * So, to quickly give a more detailed run down ... Tarmstro99 joined in August 2005, with three spurts of activity prior to early 2007, resulting in the addition of "United States Code/Title 17/Chapter 1", "BMG Music v. Gonzalez" and "Lexmark Int'l v. Static Control Components", and starting to work on the categorisation of law cases and improvement of Case law‎.
 * Since early 2007, new case decisions are added in quick succession, coupled with lots of additions and improvements to United States Code. The first community participation came around March 26 with an interesting note on WS:COPYVIO  about possible problems with works covered by PD-self, and welcoming  (sadly that user hasnt been back since the first day of activity), and listing Image:56101.jpg as a copyvio.  From that time on, Tarmstro99 has participated in copyvio and proposed deletion discussions at a level on par with established users, and started tackling non-law related issues like vandalism, unlinked texts, fixing and creating author pages, etc, etc. John Vandenberg 00:10, 31 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Support, Tarmstro99 appears to have a steady hand and a genuine interest in the improvement of Wikisource. We do need more hands on deck to deal with the mundane administration, so that we all have more time to investigate the often complex cases on the two deletion forums, answer new users questions, and develop new ways to make our site useful to readers.  What is more, Tarmstro99's involvement in the community discussions has been intelligent. John Vandenberg 00:10, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Per nom Support... (and what were we waiting for on promoting John? :) I think he's ripe... ) ++Lar: t/c 11:39, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Yann 15:50, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Support--Birgitte SB  21:06, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Trustworthy and knowledgeable with the desire to help out here. FloNight 20:38, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Support.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 22:49, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Support; looks like a trustworthy user. --Spangineerwp (háblame) 23:38, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Support--Jusjih 15:40, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Support - Politicaljunkie 02:28, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Appointed—Zhaladshar (Talk) 00:15, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

2008-12 confirmation

 * Absolutely. John Vandenberg (chat) 02:41, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes. Hesperian 03:20, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure; I've not encountered this user, but seems to be doing good things and making good use of the mop. Cheers, Jack Merridew 07:57, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Yann (talk) 09:43, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Cirt (talk) 12:25, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes! - Suicidalhamster (talk) 15:04, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Support ---Zyephyrus (talk) 18:08, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Jeepday (talk) 23:40, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Support I don't have any personal interaction with Tarmstro99, but after a quick perusal of his logs, I definitely get the sense that he's one of the Good Ones. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 16:28, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Support per EVula. — Rlevse • Talk  • 14:04, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Support — JoJo • Talk  • 03:17, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Support &mdash; Anonymous Dissident  Talk 11:30, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. Thank you for your help during the past year. FloNight (talk) 20:16, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Confirmed.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 15:17, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

2010-01 confirmation
Administrator since 9 November 2007 (see previous discussions), currently


 * Support, specialist knowledge is invaluable. billinghurst (talk) 03:32, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Support; looks fine from over here. Hesperian 05:13, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Support and agree with billinghurst. —LarryGilbert (talk) 06:10, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. Thank you. John Vandenberg (chat) 08:45, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. Phe (talk) 11:09, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. --Zyephyrus (talk) 16:50, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

2011-02 confirmation

 * support — billinghurst  sDrewth  14:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * support — JamAKiska (talk) 14:46, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * support — --Zyephyrus (talk) 17:05, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * support --Eliyak T · C 00:39, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * support — George Orwell III ( talk ) 02:39, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * support -- Mattwj2002 (talk) 12:31, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * support -- Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 17:51, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * support --Jusjih (talk) 17:41, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * support — §  stay  ( sic ) ! 09:58, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
 * support John Vandenberg (chat) 10:29, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

2012-03 confirmation

 * support admin mop required and used well — billinghurst  sDrewth  13:18, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support — George Orwell III (talk) 19:51, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Zyephyrus (talk) 21:56, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Mpaa (talk) 20:10, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support--Jusjih (talk) 09:11, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support - AdamBMorgan (talk) 15:44, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support--Jusjih (talk) 21:52, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support— Just stopped to look at the most recent of Tarmstro's 11,000 edits. Thousands having to do with U.S. statutes and other laws, nothing but the U.S. Constitution stuff that would get him popular recognition, but all contributing to an eminently useful public service at his expense.  And Tarmstrobot (1,000 of the 11,000 edits) is a comprehensive OCR supplementation procedure which I'm sure has eliminated an abundance of repetitive human proofreading drudgery. ResScholar (talk) 04:44, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

2013-04 confirmation

 * keep — billinghurst  sDrewth  14:52, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * keep — Zyephyrus (talk) 15:16, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * keep — George Orwell III (talk) 20:56, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * keep.--Jusjih (talk) 11:55, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

2014-05 confirmation

 * Support administrator's flag, but oppose bureaucrat's flag . I wonder if we still need local bureaucrats when all three had the last logs years ago ( Tarmstro99 on 2011-05-10, BirgitteSB on 2011-11-02, Zhaladshar on 2012-11-17), but if many other users still support keeping any bureaucrats even with no recent logs, I will respect their thoughts.--Jusjih (talk) 06:50, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Tarmstro99 is not a bureaucrat. The third 'crat is Hesperian (log). —Clockery Fairfeld (ƒ=ma) 07:37, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Hesperian did have a bureaucrat's log on 2014-04-29. I wonder what Tarmstro99's last bureaucrat log on 2011-05-10 would mean. . Without changing my supporting Tarmstro99's adminship, I will check back next year.--Jusjih (talk) 21:09, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I have a bureaucrat log also, also not now or ever a bureaucrat no idea why. Jeepday (talk) 22:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * If I might make a guess, that tool is seeing changes to the "bot user" flag in the user rights log, and wrongly labelling it as a crat action. Hesperian 01:05, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
 * If anybody is interested, as confirmed using User:Clockery as guinea-pig, here and [//en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&user=Clockery&page=User%3AAbyssal here], changing another user's rights is logged this way as well, even though she also has never held the bureaucrat bit here. AuFCL (talk) 01:52, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Maybe all userrights changes are logged as bureaucrat actions...? Can't think of anything other than that. —Clockery Fairfeld (ƒ=ma) 05:45, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Correct, the toolmaker has collected rights allocations under 'crats' actions. Old tool, and traditionally it was crats who did rights changes when the systems where simpler. — billinghurst  sDrewth  04:59, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * —Clockery Fairfeld (ƒ=ma) 07:37, 2 May 2014 (UTC) Looks like he's back. :) —Clockery Fairfeld (ƒ=ma) 15:32, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
 * - Pushing the limits of "Active" Last admin action 15:40, 30 April 2012; less than 10 edits since July 2013. Unless Tarmstro99 is lurking I have concerns they are loosing touch with trends and community consensus on Wikisource, making it difficult to act as community representative. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 14:26, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
 * —surely the lad deserves credit for not having made any slip-ups at all during the period? And in any case I don't see any request to resign either. AuFCL (talk) 01:52, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
 * — While an account's lack of activity would normally concern me here, history shows he mostly works in 'chunks at a time' - setting up multiple volumes through TarmstroBot first and then goes back whenever he has the time to Proofread within them. The last I "heard" from him was he was still stuck locating & scanning all the missing volumes in the U.S. Statutes at Large series. -- George Orwell III (talk) 22:18, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I have absolutely no concerns with Tim's lows in activity. We have never put the bar high for adminship, and is part of why we have no intermediate rights classes. — billinghurst  sDrewth  04:59, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * --Zyephyrus (talk) 20:55, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

2015-06 confirmation

 * --Zyephyrus (talk) 17:09, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
 * BD2412 T 18:15, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
 * — George Orwell III (talk) 00:10, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * --Jusjih (talk) 02:36, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * — billinghurst  sDrewth  03:50, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
 * John Vandenberg (chat) 04:19, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

2016-07 confirmation
2016 (UTC)
 * <font style="background:lightgreen">BD2412 T 20:10, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:19, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * --Zyephyrus (talk) 23:53, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * —Spangineer (háblame) 12:18, 5 July
 * I find it amazing that after seven years, there are admins and editors whose path I never crossed, (or made them cross.) :-D — Ineuw talk 08:10, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * --Jusjih (talk) 00:12, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ — billinghurst  sDrewth  06:27, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * —Prosody (talk) 01:46, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * — Ineuw talk 01:26, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

2017-08 confirmation

 * . —Beleg Tâl (talk) 12:03, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
 * --Zyephyrus (talk) 20:54, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
 * --Jusjih (talk) 01:25, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
 * . <font style="background:lightgreen">BD2412 T 01:55, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
 * support :-) — billinghurst  sDrewth  14:30, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
 * --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:23, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

2018-09 confirmation

 * - recently active enough. <font style="background:lightgreen">BD2412 T 02:20, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * --Zyephyrus (talk) 12:07, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:32, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
 * --Jusjih (talk) 00:59, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:42, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * —C. F. 20:27, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

2019-10 confirmation

 * --Zyephyrus (talk) 17:50, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , no issues. <font style="background:lightgreen">BD2412 T 22:22, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * --Jusjih (talk) 02:55, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Josephine W. (talk) 05:53, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
 * --Xover (talk) 09:29, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

2020-11 confirmation

 * based on past performance. Admin has been less active of late, but has not disappeared entirely. <font style="background:lightgreen">BD2412 T 20:26, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
 * --DannyS712 (talk) 20:35, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
 * — Hrishikes (talk) 02:02, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * You have a single logged action in 2020. Are you still interested in retaining the tools? I'm happy to support that if you do—and there's no pressure to use the tools in any particular way or with any particular frequency—but if you don't actually need them for anything I prefer to minimize the number of user accounts with advanced permissions (to reduce risk of account hijacking and other such technical concerns). --Xover (talk) 07:26, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Although I am grateful for the support, I fear that my recent inactivity is likely to continue for at least the next several months. Moving to all online teaching has proven to be a major scheduling challenge. Although I remain very strongly committed to the project of en.ws and will continue to drop in to make progress on my ongoing proofreads as often as possible, I think it’s probably better if I surrender the admin flag for now, subject to possibly reactivating in the future when I am confident of being able to participate more regularly.  All best wishes to this terrific community.  Tarmstro99 17:30, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * In that case, thank you for your service. Don't hesitate to ping me if you run into anything that needs tools; and please do request them back when life's general insanity ebbs to pre-2020 levels again. --Xover (talk) 19:02, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * . Still somewhat active.--Jusjih (talk) 04:30, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 * . --Zyephyrus (talk) 18:18, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Tarmstro99

 * Note that Tarmstro99 actually resigned the tools at the last confirmation. --Xover (talk) 18:12, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * It appears that the tools were not removed at that time. I will notify the stewards. BD2412  T 03:32, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: Request filed. BD2412  T 03:42, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: Request fulfilled; as Tarmstro99 is no longer an administrator, there are no tools left to confirm. Barring any further comment, I therefore intend to close this discussion in about 24 hours. BD2412  T 20:45, 3 December 2021 (UTC)