Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship/Atcovi5

Hello to the Wikiversity community. This will be my 5th request at receiving the custodianship rights. I'm Atcovi, previously Draubb, and have been editing here since 2011. My primary interests in terms of an editing perspective are pages relating to Advance Placement courses and Psychology, with brief dabbles in other fields (such as Islam, biology, history, etc.). In real life, I'm a student on the path to attending university majoring in Psychology.

I would like to further my abilities in assisting the community in removing vandalism (LTAs that have been plaguing us recently) and spam (spambots, external link spammers, advertisers), which I've been doing for the last couple of years using the curator rights, to which I was granted them in 2015.

My previous request goes back to late 2016, where Dave opposed based on 3 logical points that I'd like to address:
 * 1) I've reached the legal age of residence in my country and I'm no longer considered a "minor". I'm now legally responsible for any actions that I may take.
 * 2) My use of the block tool can be seen through my actions on the other Wikis that I have sysop rights, which are Meta Wikimedia, MediaWiki and the English Wikibooks. I'm also a global sysop, performing administrative actions on various wikis of different languages. I'm confident that I'm also able to effectively communicate with users dealing with various disputes, including blocking. As an administrator on other wikis, I've been able to grow and communicate better with my peers over the years vs. the lack of communication I displayed in 2016.
 * 3) I've improved significantly on uploading files with licensing. Although I don't upload as often as I used to, my recently uploaded files all have the necessary licensing attached to them in the description. I also plan to restore my old files and provide appropriate licensing to them with the sysop rights, a task I was working on using the global sysop rights until I realized that it may be better to use local custodian rights instead.

With the opposing points addressed and a need established, I ask the community if they believe I would be a good addition to the custodian team. Thank you! —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 20:02, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Questions
You are very interested in being a custodian and gain more administrative rights in Wikiversity.
 * why is that so important for you to gain this additional administrative rights in Wikiversity too?
 * think of use-cases where custodian action is necessary in Wikiversity. Are you exposed to decision making processes of custodians in Wikiversity, where informing other custodians did not lead to your expected outcome of the custodian activities? --Bert Niehaus (discuss • contribs) 18:53, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Comments
You have made many contributions and seem to be a very active editor, which is great. Many of those contributions relate to history and politics, and you have a resource on the revolutionary war. Not too long ago I had a conversation with another editor about the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. Their resource made no mention of the currency act of 1764, which Benjamin Franklin stated was a significant catalyst for the war "The colonies would gladly have borne a little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War". While I believe you and that editor are both editing in good faith, there's a significant revisionist effort on Wikipedia and probably also on Wikiversity. I feel that many people, in their eagerness to contribute, tend to forgo some of their capacity for critical thought. I do not mean this as a slight, but as a cautionary observation. This natural tendency is often exploited to obscure the truth, so please take care to use a critical eye and avoid groupthink. I think you'll be a fine custodian. AP295 (discuss • contribs) 15:11, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Looking at your "global account" information, you've made edits to well over a hundred different local wikis, which seems unusual. I suppose that's fine, but are you able to contribute in all of those different languages? AP295 (discuss • contribs) 20:04, 21 May 2021 (UTC)


 * These edits are made due to my participation in the SWMT team, where we monitor several small wikis for vandalism and spam. That is why I have many edits tied to various local wikis. I'm not able to contribute in terms of building content, but I'm able to detect obvious vandalism or spam on those wikis despite the language barrier. Many local wikis, for example the Cherokee Wiktionary, do not have active administrators to monitor spam pages that pop up every once in a while. This is where I'm able to contribute in by removing the spam pages, despite not understanding the Cherokee language. Hope this explains everything. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 20:24, 21 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Ah, that makes more sense. AP295 (discuss • contribs) 21:19, 21 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you for standing as a candidate. It is good to see you have addressed some of the previous concerns. As you may know, one of my interests is in files and copyright. I have just looked through some of your uploads from 2017 onwards. I feel that many of them need attention to ensure they fulfil all requirements.
 * Files like File:LarvaePopulationDensityGraph.PNG which have fairuse must have an accompanying non-free media rationale.
 * Files such as File:IonizationEnergyTrend2018.PNG should not list programs as authors - Microsoft Excel did not create the chart.
 * Files where the EXIF lists authors/copyright holders should have this reflected in the file description. An example is File:Katharina Innerhoffer PyeonychangOlympicsWinter2018.jpg should state that the author is "IOC/Karl Bridgeman" rather than "Olympic.org".
 * If you could address these and similar files, I would feel able to support your candidacy. -Green Giant (discuss • contribs) 16:12, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello Green Giant. I greatly appreciate your input. I'm currently going through all my uploads to ensure that they're all properly licensed. I'm going through a lot of my fair use uploads and I'm adding the appropriate licensing (the "rationale" template). I've also went ahead and changed the authors for any Microsoft-created graphs/charts I've made (I still have many more files to go), paying attention to the EXIF more and I've changed the information regarding the author according to the EXIF (if available). Thank you again for your comment! —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 17:46, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

All editors are created equal. Gaál Sándor (discuss • contribs) 17:27, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Voting

 * +1 --Esenabre (discuss • contribs) 19:15, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I am in direct favor of Atcovi's custodianship - She contributes nicely as stated in request, I would like her to get that user right. Noukden (discuss • contribs)
 * Trusted user across WMF. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:32, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Since the request is mainly based on antivandalism and antispam, they have shown themselves to be highly dedicated (especially met:SWMT). They appear to be technically proficient as a sysop and curator. Pending response to Green Giant's copyright questions above, I'm happy to support this time round. T.Shafee(Evo&#65120;Evo)talk 02:38, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * LGTM --DannyS712 (discuss • contribs) 08:51, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Neutral -- I would be more comfortable seeing examples of pages that prioritize quality over quantity.--Lbeaumont (discuss • contribs) 12:34, 26 May 2021 (UTC)


 * However, I'll second Lbeaumont's comment. Wikiversity needs high-quality content, and I'd prefer to see an emphasis on scholarship and attention to detail than a large volume of content. Despite having so much information available to us on the internet, quality content is not as common as it should be. For example, many Wikipedia articles in STEM are in awful shape, and STEM articles are very underrepresented as featured articles. The sections for math and computing in Wikipedia's list of featured articles have fewer articles than any other category. There is no shortage of mediocre content on the internet. I'm not saying your contributions are mediocre, it's just a general observation. AP295 (discuss • contribs) 15:53, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Outcome
The nomination was open for two weeks with appropriate announcements and notices. Consensus is supportive based on administrative actions. Concerns were based on content editing rather than interactions with other users. There were no negative votes. User:Atcovi is now a custodian. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 14:36, 1 June 2021 (UTC)