User:Femke/2024 admin election notes

We've got an amazing 32 editors standing (after a few withdrawals) for the election. This means it's a challenge to give each candidate enough attention. I'm collecting these elections notes to make it easier for myself and others to find key information on candidates.

My thinking on the voting

My personal RfA criteria focus on showing clue and being civil and kind, and these metrics are of course only part of the equation.

Given the spirit of the elections, I won't say who I will be supporting. I will say I'm pleasantly surprised by the quality of candidates, given the large numbers here. Before the discussion, I tallied my "Probablies", "Maybes" and "Don't supports", and my "Probablies" group is largest, followed by the "Maybies". In the end, I supported 20 candidates, I abstained for 4 where I felt I had insufficient information, and opposed 8. In a normal RfA, I oppose less, partially as I don't want to add to the pile for a RfA that's already headed to 'unsuccessful', as each oppose might sting, but also as I normally can trust the vetting of the nominators, which were often lacking here.

We seem to be attracting different types of candidates than at normal RfAs, for instance those mostly active on different projects who could use the tools for cross-wiki issues, the old anti-vandalism admin candidate, or those with some gaps in editing due to real life. This is the change I wanted to see in RfA, so I'm very glad we might get more people helping out in diverse ways.

Chime in

This is a fork from User:Novem Linguae/Essays/2024 administrator election notes. Other guides are listed at the bottom. If you see mistakes, feel free to correct them. If you want to help fill the table out, chime in. For those candidates who want to help out with deletion tasks, I'd like to add AfD/CSD stats if time allows. And finally, I'd like to dig further which candidates got a nomination offer from a trusted user (in the past or for these elections).

More information Name, Edit count >7.5k (10k)? ...


	Name	Edit count >7.5k (10k)?	Active >12 mos (15)?	Content	Archives critical talk page messages	No blocks or active bans?^[1]	No AN(I) about them^[2]	High-trust perms	Misc	Wants to help with (experience)
1	Ahecht nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y FL	Y	Y	Y	AP, NPP, PM, TE	Nom: Wbm1058	fully protected pages, G6
2	AntiDionysius, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	N	Y^[3]	Y	Y^[4]	–		Blocking vandals (Y^[5])
3	Bastun, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	N	N^[6]	Y^[7]	N^[8]	NPP		PROD, CSD, AIV
4	DoubleGrazing nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y GA	Y	Y	Y^[9]	AP, NPP, PM	Had nom offer: and 0xDeadbeef encouraged them to run	SPI, AfD, copyvio
5	Dr vulpes nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y GA	Y	Y	Y	NPP, PM	Nom: Femke	Redirect CSD, RfPP, PERM
6	EggRoll97 nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y^[10]	Edit filter manager, global edit filter helper, NPP, PM		AIV, view deleted content for edit filters
7	FOARP, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y 2x GA	Y	Y	Y	PM	Had offer nom and Ritchie encouraged them to run	RM, AfD
8	Frost, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y ~8 creations	Y	Y	?^[11]	PM		Vandal fighting without burdening admins
9	Hawkeye7, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y Many	Y	Y	Y^[12]	Former admin, AP, MMS, NPP, PM	Previous RfAs: [1] [2] [3]	DYK, RfPP, RM
11	Knightoftheswords281 nomination, Xtools	N	Y	Y? B	Y	Y	Y	AP		ITN
12	Leonidlednev, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Global rollbacker		AIV, UAA, XfD, CSD G3/G11
13	LindsayH, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y ~ 15 creations	Y	Y	Y	NPP	Innisfree987 encouraged them to run^[13]	Clear backlogs
14	MarcGarver, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	N^[14]	Y	Y	Y^[15]	Steward, Wikibooks sysop & checkuser, AP, NPP	Previous RfA: [1]	Clear backlogs
15	Mdewman6, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y some creations	Y	Y	Y	NPP, PM		Close RfDs, RM
17	Pbritti, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y FA and GAs	Y	Y	Y^[16]	AP, NPP	Multiple people contacted him to run.	AfD, PROD
18	Peaceray, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y GA	Y	Y	Y^[17]	AP, MMS, PM, TE		Vandal fighting & helping
19	Pharaoh of the Wizards, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	N^[18]	N^[19]	Y	Y	AP		AIV, AfD, UAA
20	Queen of Hearts, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y 3x GA	Y	Y	Y	NPP, PM	Had multiple offers nomination, AWOT	XfD
21	Robert McClenon, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	AP, NPP, PM		MfD, Deletion review, G6/G11
22	Rsjaffe, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y FA	Y	Y	Y	NPP		SPI (Y^[20]), vandals, UPE
23	Sable232, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	N <5% authorship on top 2 Bs.	Y	Y^[21]	Y^[22]	–		SPI, RfPP (Y^[23]), AIV
24	SD0001, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y GA	Y	Y	Y	BAG, NPP, PM, TE	Noms: Novem Linguae, Hey man im josh	Editing protected modules etc, backlogs
25	SilverLocust, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y GA	Y	Y	Y	MMS, NPP, PM, TE	Noms: Extraordinary Writ, HouseBlaster	RM, work as arb clerk
26	Sohom Datta, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y many GAs	Y	Y	Y	AP, NPP, TE, Global Interface Editor	Noms: Novem Linguae, Clovermoss	Technical stuff, start slowly DYK
27	Spy-cicle, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y FL, GAs	Y	Y	Y	–		AIV, RfPP, AfD
28	Starship.paint, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y FAs, GAs	Y	Y^[24]	Y^[25]	AP		AN(I), AE, ITN
29	SWinxy, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	N part of a B	Y	Y	Y	TE	Rhododentrites encouraged them to run	RfPP (Y^[26]), view deleted, edit fully protected
30	ThadeusOfNazereth, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y GA, FLs	Y	Y	Y	AP, NPP	Nom: Vanamonde93	XfD, AIV, RfPP, DYK, RSN
31	The Squirrel Conspiracy, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y FLs, GA	Y^[27]	Y	Y	Wikidata sysop, Commons sysop, AP, NPP	Previous RfA: [1]	cross-wiki spam/vandals
32	Valenciano, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y 3x GA	N^[28]	Y	Y^[29]	AP, NPP		AIV, UAA, RFPP (Y^[30])
33	Velella, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	Y Many creations, but^[31]	Y	Y^[32]	Y^[33]	AP, NPP, PM		vandalism, UPE, AfD
34	Zippybonzo, nomination, Xtools	Y	Y	N	Y	Y^[34]	Y	NPP, PM		CSD, PROD, AIV, UAA

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Withdrawn candidates