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Wikicology (talk · contribs) – Wikicology is a lecturer at Adekunle Ajasin University in Nigeria. He focuses primarily on Nigeria-related topics, but also contributes to numerous topics, such as Medicine, Biochemistry, Molecular biology, Governments Politics, History, Culture, Business and other encyclopedic subjects" according to his user page — a claim I have checked, and find to be true. He is also a prolific reviewer of new articles on Wikipedia, and a |Candidates for speedy deletion patroller. He has succeeded in rescuing many such articles — which, to me, indicates that he has a knack for making picks that the community agrees with.

This user approached me with a nomination request. Having had a good look at his contributions over the past few hours, I am delighted to nominate him — and would have done so on my own initiative had I known of his work earlier. David Cannon (talk) 11:47, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Thanks for your nomination David, I humbly accept with all sense of responsibility to serve diligently. Wikic¤l¤gy^{t@lk to M£} 13:39, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A:I'd like to primarily focus my administrative work on closing discussions at WP:AFD, deletion of candidates for speedy deletion which has a frequent backlog, based on my experience with them. I am experienced in the areas of deletion and deletion processes on Wikipedia, and a significant part of my contributions to Wikipedia focus in this area, patrolling the candidates for speedy deletion to ensured that they are appropriately tagged for deletion and I've rescued a good number of them and re-creation of wrongly deleted articles.

2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?

A: My best contributions to Wikipedia include content creation which are denoted here. Examples of articles I have created that are fairly developed include 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. The first six featured on WP:DYK and I intend to improve them to GA or FA. One of the reasons why I give more attentions to Nigeria-related articles is that only few people are contributing from Nigeria, resulting in poor representation of Nigeria-related articles on Wikipedia. I also focus my work on patrolling Candidates for Speedy Deletion to ease admin stress and to rescue inappropriate candidate for speedy deletion. I also contribute to a wide range of discussions related to Africa, Academics, Films, Medicine, History and so on at AfD to help reach a consensus that determine the fate of some articles. I sometimes get pinged to comments on some discussion by other experienced editors in certain cases.

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

A: I have had disagreements at times regarding editing and contents, which is invariably inevitable for prolific content creators and active editors. I'm always calm when this occur and resolve it amicably with the concern editors at talk pages. I don't go out of control because I believe good faith is all that is required to contribute usefully to the encyclopedia. I approach disagreements by first considering the concerned editor's viewpoints, respect their points of views and engaging in discussion, with the hopes of attaining resolution.

• Links for Wikicology: Wikicology (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for Wikicology can be found here.

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review his contributions before commenting.

1. Support: Wikicology has proven beyond reasonable doubts that he's a superb editor by his way of editing. He will be a good Administrator. Olaniyan Olushola (talk) 15:33, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
2. Support: as nominator (I see somebody else has beaten me to the polling booth — well done!) David Cannon (talk) 15:12, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
3. Support: Without being biased, I am supporting the candidacy of Wikicology because he was the editor who gave me the confidence to edit on Wikipedia. His contributions to Wikipedia especially on WikiProject Nigeria-related topics and AfD is commendable. He has my support! --—OluwaCurtis »» (talk to me) 15:26, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

1. Oppose - WP:NOTNOW - Supdiop (T🔹C) 00:24, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]