258:#'''Automated Support'''. ] is on vacation, but he thinks Brad is a great guy who deserves the mop. Of course, Brad is also an idiot who ] he was already a better candidate than most three months ago. Not only that, but he has the nerve to run only after his would be nominator goes on vacation. Those evident errors in judgment aside, Brad has already been a calm, rational and articulate contributor to important discussions at ANI and many other places, and if he is going to act that much like a sensible admin, it is about time we make him one. ] 06:02, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
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backlogs involving bios of living persons and textual copyright issues, which are areas requiring constant administrator attention for the protection both of the project and of third parties whose rights may be involved. Finally, although deletion-closing is not something I presently plan to make a specialty area, I have enough AfD and MfD experience to participate in the admin tasks there is well.
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