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Hi, I'm OWaunTon and I was requested by user Bilby to ask some advice about administrators on here. OWaunTon (talk) 14:04, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @OWaunTon, great to meet you! I've had a look at your history, and I see you requested bureaucratship recently. Well, I can tell you, that's a dull job - it's only useful about half a dozen times a year, and even then, it's just about adding a comment somewhere. It's probably one of the least useful roles on Wikipedia these days.
You mention advice about administrators - well, I'm afraid that the "administrator" user-right is quite difficult to get on Wikipedia these days, you need to have the confidence of the community, and that can often mean tens of thousands of edits, plus many years of work. I could offer my magic formula as route to adminship, but it's not a quick one! But have no fear - you are already an admin, by other websites standards. You can edit almost any article, offer advice, categorise, create pages - these are things that you just can't do elsewhere, on say, a news website.
Given your stated goal though "I want to help users and update articles.", I do have some suggestions for you. Have you ever been to the WP:Teahouse? That's a place where new users are directed for friendly advice, and volunteers helping out there would always be appreciated. Otherwise keep doing what you're doing, there's always lots to be getting on with! WormTT(talk) 09:26, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not an Arb question as such, but ...

Hello, Worm. Congratulations on getting elected in the voting a few months ago, during the process of which you kindly responded to a question I'd hoped to get answers to from all the candidates. I thought to turn to one of you longtimer Arbs to ask a different kind of question now, and you sort of came to mind as someone who just might be able to help.

I'm looking for some senior editor who has a lot of COPYVIO experience to help me figure out what to do with a situation I've just discovered in an article on which I've spent a lot of time working before discovering it's riddled with COPYVIO. Simply posting a message about it on the article's Talk page won't be of much real help in this case. Augnablik (talk) 22:35, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Worm, please forget about replying to my above message ... my mentor came to my rescue and seems to have found the right person to address the COPYVIO situation. Although he'd been offering me advice when I first asked what to do about it, I thought he'd taken it as far as he thought he should go and had sort of turned me loose to follow through: a good strategy with a toddler editor like me moving along into her tween years in Wikidom, in need of guidance to the point of being ready to apply it and move forward. Augnablik (talk) 14:28, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies for the delay in replying, I'm away for a bit and not getting to my computer as much. I'm glad you've got things sorted. WormTT(talk) 16:45, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Closure

Just a bit of a side tangent because I don't want to keep talking on Tamzin's talk page, but saying what I just did was like a weight off my shoulders and it's way better than holding it in. I'm allowed to stand up for myself and ask that someone consider the impact their actions may have. That sense of closure counts to me as an outcome I want. Tamzin is free to disagree but I don't think I'll be changing my mind on this anytime soon, as it's still how I think about the situation a month after it happened. It is possible to still think about things rationally when you're experiencing a tense emotional situation. I've been doing that for most of my life. But I've said what needed to be said in order to move on. Courtesy ping to BusterD. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 13:39, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Saying what you need to say to get a sense of closure is one thing, but there are factors beyond that - such as the location and manner of saying it. You'd approached Tamzin on her page, which would invite reply - and developing into an ongoing discussion. It was only going to escalate tensions. I'm not asking you to explain or justify your actions, but please accept my advice here that prolonging the conversation is not helpful to yourselves or the encyclopedia. WormTT(talk) 13:51, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
She came to my talk page before, too. [1] When you're concerned about ADMINCOND issues, you bring it up with the admin in question. It's scary for non-admins to talk to admins about their conduct so I figured that I might be one of the only people willing to do so. I see the discussion as a good thing and helping both the encyclopedia and myself. I'm not going to take it further than that because I generally believe Tamzin to be a good admin most of the time, but my ADMINCOND concerns were genuine and serious. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 21:37, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The European Destubathon

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