User:Salmon of Doubt/cust

I am requesting custodianship on this project for a number of reasons.

Primarily, I intend to help with day-to-day maintenance. I have watched powerlessly as a pow-wow of three custodians were unable to clear a cross-namespace redirect for move. There are numerous edit histories on this project that are not GFDL compliant and require mergers. Image policy here requires a strong hand to fix - specifically, there is no robotic tagging and notification system for obvious copyvios. Users with bot-proficiency are necessary for a project in a growth stage, and I have that proficiency.

Additionally, I would be extra vigilant in recent change patrolling - I have already been instrumental in dealing with one extremely vulgar troll, and would be able to do more with the ability to stop vandalism in the project space without having to constantly revert while discussing vandal's intentions on their talk pages.

Finally, and perhaps more controversially, I believe that there is a serious problem with divulged personal information that cannot be solved without tools. In the event that otherwise private personal information about a user is disclosed, I will delete specific edits to protect the privacy of our contributors. If contributors to this project are driven away with threats to their health and well-being, there will be nothing left but people who make such threats.

I will not protect pages to “win” edit wars, nor will I block established contributors without seeking broad consensus of other users, nor will I delete pages without wide consensus (unless those pages are copyvios, invasions of privacy or where the sole author requests deletion)

Thank you for your consideration.

Salmon of Doubt 19:35, 12 September 2008 (UTC)