Ashley Van Haeften, Commons admin? Options

[carbuncle]

I guess Ashley wants to delete the rest of his embarrassing uploads without the fuss of having to ask an admin...

I would like to put myself forward for admin tools. Over the last year I have committed to Commons projects, mostly in my role as a volunteer leading the GLAM UK programme, my work as an OTRS volunteer (for which having tools would mean a wider scope of the types of ticket I would pick up) and also my work as a trusted user (using my own scraping tool to help check and empty the Flickr backlog queue of dubious uploads every now and then). I run Faebot, though I recently paused in using my iMacro scripts as I would like to move to more standard batch upload tools for larger upload projects. In 2012 I will be part of a number of Commons projects and partnerships, including my continuing involvement in the future batch upload tool and some very high quality uploads with our UK GLAM partners; though it would always be useful to have a GLAM-knowledgeable admin available to help out, more important will be my experience of helping with all types of admin tasks on Commons to inform these projects as well as continuing the support I already give to the institutions on how to encourage Wikimedians to join in with making these projects a success, as well as promoting the use of simple policies for copyright and attribution. Fæ (talk) 18:45, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

[Peter Damian]

And look what happens next (as was certainly bound to happen)

Oppose for the egregious transparency issues. It's a shame really. Most of the opposition to Ashley comes from WR and is motivated by homophobia and bigotry. It'd be nice to support but in this case they've accidentally hit the nail on the head. He cannot be trusted to use the tools in the best interests of the project. Lovetinkle (talk) 17:35, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

I wondered when the 'h' word would come up. This is one of my pet peeves. Everytime I've characterised this issue (including in my upcoming submission to UK charity commission) I have studiously and carefully avoided the word 'gay' or its cognates. The problem is promoting links to commercial pornography websites. I have a problem with 'commercial', and I have a problem with 'pornography' of any kind, where under-age users are concerned. Yet there is a certain minority that uses 'homophobia' or 'harassment' as get-out-of-jail free card for avoiding any kind of scrutiny or public accountability. The problem with Fae's previous account was nothing to do with sex or homophobia or whatever. It was: malicious BLPs, misrepresentation of sources, linking to commercial sites, tag-teaming. What have these grave sins to do with homophobia? I deeply resent these accusations. Peter Damian (talk) 17:50, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Well of course you've been wondering about it Peter. No matter how carefully you, Ottava, Alison, RHMED, Barbour, SBJohnny and the other right-wing activists over at WR craft your words the nastiness leaks through. You're opposing Ashley because he's gay. You don't like him. His uploads make you feel icky. Whatever. As it I mentioned above it just happens you've revealed a real flaw in his candidacy but save us the wide-eyed innocence. Y'all would have opposed his candidacy even if he was as pure as the Risen Lord. Lovetinkle (talk) 18:04, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Please redact that offensive personal attack. In my country, and probably yours, accusations of homophobia are illegal. As well as being immoral. Please retract now. Peter Damian (talk) 18:21, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Remember jimbo's reaction on Essjay's scandal?

I do, and quite recently have been researching it. As soon as it hit the media headlines he changed direction about 180 degrees, very very quickly, quicker than a London cabbie can do a U-turn in a narrow street. In fact, the news hit the mainstream press on Feb 28th 2007. Jimmy was in India at the time. As soon as he got back and saw the breadth of the coverage, he U-turned

I want to make it perfectly clear that my past support of EssJay in this matter was fully based on a lack of knowledge about what has been going on. Even now, I have not been able to check diffs, etc. I have asked EssJay to resign his positions of trust within the community.

This post has been edited by Peter Damian: Thu 29th December 2011, 6:34pm

[SB_Johnny]

And look what happens next (as was certainly bound to happen)

...No matter how carefully you, Ottava, Alison, RHMED, Barbour, SBJohnny and the other right-wing activists over at WR craft your words the nastiness leaks through. You're opposing Ashley because he's gay....

Wait, I thought I was a pinko pseudo-commie pro-gay-marriage liberal. What changed?