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Billinghurst

2009-01 admin

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I keep seeing this editor making valuable contributions to Wikisource. Recently they have been making more edits to JVbot patrol whitelist then John. Billinghurst has been a contributor to WS since July 2008 with a steady edit history and increasing taking responsibility for higher level participation in the project to include requests for speedy delete and page moves as in this recent edit. I believe granting the tools to this editor would benefit their ability to contribute to the project. I believe this editor has an edit history that shows they are and will continue to be a trusted member of the community. Please join me in supporting Billinghurst as a candidate to Adminship. Jeepday (talk) 13:14, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

I accept the nomination (which I note is the convention), and thank those who have that confidence in me. -- billinghurst (talk) 00:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• Support As Nom Jeepday (talk) 13:18, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support - Excellent contributor. Suicidalhamster (talk) 23:56, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support. This adminship is long overdue. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 00:34, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support. Hesperian 02:23, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support. Admin tools can help Billinghurst for his very efficient work. ---Zyephyrus (talk) 09:08, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support; his record looks good to me. --Spangineer^wp (háblame) 17:42, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support Yann (talk) 10:59, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support AllanHainey (talk) 12:27, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support Thank you for volunteering to do more work. :-) FloNight (talk) 19:52, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support My only complaint is we can't clone him....we need more people like him on the project. He is very motivated and good worker. He would make a great admin. --Mattwj2002 (talk) 11:29, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support, of course. Jude (talk) 11:28, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support - thank you for volunteering to help out in this added capacity. Cirt (talk) 18:39, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support (with chance of opposing confirmation if I remember earlier disputes!); he's done great work adopting Wikisource:Obituaries and hasn't proposed anything too radical that I can recall; seems to be here for the long term. Sherurcij ^{Collaboration of the Week: Author:Bahá'u'lláh.} 01:07, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support - very active. Good work thus far. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 15:22, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
• Support.--GrafZahl (talk) 10:19, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Appointed per consensus--BirgitteSB 01:03, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

2009-09 checkuser

Preconditions

• Wikisource:Restricted access policy#Checkuser access
• meta:CheckUser policy#Access to CheckUser cites After gaining consensus (at least 70%-80% in pro/con voting or the highest number of votes in multiple choice elections) in his local community, and with at least 25-30 editors' approval

I would like to propose myself to become a third CheckUser for English Wikisource. I meet the Meta criteria expressed and am willing to identify myself to WMF. I have read and understand the existing policies at Meta and enWS, and agree to abide by the policies. I have no experience on a wiki as a checkuser, though I offer my time at RootsWeb as postmaster and listmaster as an example to demonstrate my skills and knowledge of IP addresses, IP address ranges, and rDNS. I hasten slowly in my admin approach, and would continue to be cautious, consultative, and patient. -- billinghurst (talk) 11:25, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

1. Support. If we need another Checkuser, then it might as well be Billinghurst. Hesperian 13:11, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
2. Support. I believe technical qualifications aren't the key point, since the network material is something others with the tools pass on. No reservations about the "invisibles". Charles Matthews (talk) 16:42, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
3. Support. He is a wise and trusted admin and I am sure he will make a wise and trusted check user this is why I support him. --Mattwj2002 (talk) 06:22, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
4. Support. Yes please. We do need another CU here, as I no longer notice problems and even miss requests on WS:AN. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 10:14, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
5. Support. Active and trustworthy admin. Yann (talk) 10:24, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
6. Support. Valued user to the project and should do fine with this added responsibility as well. Cirt (talk) 19:07, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
7. Support. --Zyephyrus (talk) 19:44, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
8. Support. --Eliyak T*C 02:55, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
9. Support; trustworthy and experienced. --Spangineer^wp (háblame) 21:13, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
10. Support. A trust-worthy and dedicated user whose use of the tools will be a boon to the community. Jude (talk) 22:45, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
11. Support Trusted. My account is new, but it was created on January 2009 here. Pmlineditor  Talk 10:32, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
12. Support -- A fine idea; someone willing to do moar work ;) Cheers, Jack Merridew 09:44, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
13. support - Our current shortage is not a good thing, he seems trustworthy. -Steve Sanbeg (talk) 04:12, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
14. Support - Easy decision. This should be closed and forwarded to the Stewards. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 14:19, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

    Comment I believe that we need a minimum of 25 votes to take to stewards. While I wondered whether there could be awareness made to the community, I didn't think that I was the one who should take such an action. billinghurst (talk) 21:40, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

15. Support.--Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 19:13, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
16. Support. ResScholar (talk) 06:57, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
17. Support Cygnis insignis (talk) 08:43, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
18. Support 203.49.255.20 00:22, 3 September 2009 Oops, I forgot to sign in. Moondyne (talk) 00:23, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
19. Support. No concerns. Suicidalhamster (talk) 09:55, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
20. Support. --BirgitteSB 11:11, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
21. Support. He's a fine user, and he'll help cover the times John Vandenberg or I are away. --Pathoschild 23:46:54, 08 September 2009 (UTC)
22. Support. Trusted user. --Shanel (talk) 23:49, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
23. Support. user is trusted and hopefully would be great CU on enwikisource , best of luck Mardetanha (talk) 00:04, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
24. Per the support of a number of other users I trust including more than one fellow CU and more than one fellow steward. Please take things slowly and ask for help if you need it. Most important: please remember that Checkuser is NOT magic pixie dust and you will do fine. ++Lar: t/c 00:18, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
25. Support I have interacted with the user several times although not here, and he will do just fine at this. --Neskaya (talk) 01:46, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
26. Support - very experienced user. --Ixfd64 (talk) 05:34, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 20:07:26, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

2010-02 confirmation

Administrator since January 2009 (see previous discussions), currently active (contributions, logs, crosswiki). Billinghurst will be reconfirmed automatically unless at least three established users oppose, which will trigger an election with decision by simple majority.

• Support. Also very active as a checkuser due to inactivity of other lazy sods. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 14:49, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support. Hesperian 14:52, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support Ottava Rima (talk) 15:06, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support GSOH. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:14, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support. --Zyephyrus (talk) 15:21, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support. Jan1naD ^{(talk • contrib)} 16:20, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support. Dovi (talk) 18:51, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support. --Eliyak T·C 03:16, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support. — ResScholar (talk) 07:54, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support — Jack Merridew 01:22, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support - Beeswaxcandle (talk) 02:11, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support He is a very value member of Wikisource. The wiki won't be the same without him! I give him my total support. --Mattwj2002 (talk) 05:58, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 22:04, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support Blurpeace 02:12, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support Moondyne (talk) 04:14, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Confirmed--BirgitteSB 15:06, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

2011-03 confirmation

Administrator since January 2009, Checkuser since September 2009 (see previous discussions), currently active (contributions, logs, crosswiki). Billinghurst will be reconfirmed automatically unless at least three established users oppose, which will trigger an election with decision by simple majority.

• support — not enough words to describe his overall positive influence and contributions to both individual editors and en.WS as a community (not to mention, me). — George Orwell III (talk) 04:10, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
• support - I have no idea how he manages to find the time to do so much here, however his quiet support and getting alongside those who need help is much valued by those on the receiving end. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 05:23, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
• support - echo above sentiments - JamAKiska (talk) 05:36, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
• support Charles Matthews (talk) 08:16, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
• support. Hesperian 11:12, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
• support - it is particularly thanks to Billinghurst that I stuck around at WS. - Htonl (talk) 20:19, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
• support--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 06:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
• support and kudos a true source of inspiration. Tireless and kind. - εΔω 18:42, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
• support — I quite agree : all these descriptions and definitions of Billinghurst’s qualities seem to me not at all exaggerated but exactly painted. --Zyephyrus (talk) 18:40, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
• Support John Vandenberg ^(chat) 06:12, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
• Support.--Jusjih (talk) 01:16, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
• Support. sDrewth is awesome. If anyone deserves to be re-elected he does! He edits a ton. He is very knowledgeable and is very helpful. Definitely gets my full support! --Mattwj2002 (talk) 16:41, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
• Support - AdamBMorgan (talk) 21:03, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
• Support Always ready to help out. He's the one who got me into this place. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 00:51, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
• Keep ing track of Billinghurst's activities is exhausting. How do you praise someone if their list of accomplishments maxes out your computer's memory? Here are some statistics I gathered in trying to make his contributions fit into one picture. If you were to list each of the 2,600,000 edits to English Wikisource out since the project started, you would find Billinghurst's sDrewthbot's name on 2.7% of them! What about Billinghurst himself? You're not going to believe this, or maybe you will if you've ever glanced at recent changes at a random time, but Billinghurst contributed more edits than his bot!—his name is on an additional 3.3% of them! It would only be a slight exaggeration to say if you've seen any part of Wikisource, you've seen Billinghurst's enthusiastic yet measured hand or voice at work. Let me add to the chorus of thank yous: Support. ResScholar (talk) 08:31, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Support—Kathleen.wright5 (talk) 10:17, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

confirmed Billinghurst (talk) 08:55, 2 April 2011 (UTC)