Automod Election: fred576

[The Returning Officer]

A new candidate has been put forward for automoderator status:

Candidate: fred576
           http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=372321
Proposer:  lukz
           http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=94387

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Voting in this election is now open:

Candidate: fred576
           http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=372321
Proposer:  lukz
           http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=94387
Seconder:  mudcrow
           http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=192108
Seconder:  gfmorris
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I usually don't see many of Fred's edits, because they are in different
part of the database, but after seeing some of remix ARs in my voting
queue, I've noticed he has over 8000 accepted non-autoedits. Currently
he has more than 1000 open edits, which is quite a bit chunk of the
voting queue. Most of his edits seem to be based on actual CDs. He is
also active on mailing lists (not just asking questions :)), so I guess
he is aware of commonly used style guidelines, etc.


Dňa St, 2008-07-02 o 18:01 +0000, The Returning Officer napísal:

> A new candidate has been put forward for automoderator status:
>
> Candidate: fred576
>            http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=372321
> Proposer:  lukz
>            http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=94387
>
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> * Otherwise, the proposal will automatically be rejected
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>
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[drsaunde]

This is a nomination that I had been planning to make myself.  Not only is Fred very active, but he has also been tackling edits of the more "difficult" variety.  He also seems to be very dedicated to the project, and I will vouch for him as a person, being very reasonable and open to suggestions.

Cheers
drsaunde

The Returning Officer wrote:

A new candidate has been put forward for automoderator status:

Candidate: fred576
           http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=372321
Proposer:  lukz
           http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=94387

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* Otherwise, the proposal will automatically be rejected
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[Chad Wilson-2]

Ditto. I've been approving a lot of his edits and watching closely
others of higher difficulty. He seems to show the right attitude and
enthusiasm so let's get it while it's hot!

Chad / voice

drsaunde wrote:

> This is a nomination that I had been planning to make myself.  Not only is
> Fred very active, but he has also been tackling edits of the more
> "difficult" variety.  He also seems to be very dedicated to the project, and
> I will vouch for him as a person, being very reasonable and open to
> suggestions.
>
> Cheers
> drsaunde
>
>
>
> The Returning Officer wrote:
>  
>> A new candidate has been put forward for automoderator status:
>>
>> Candidate: fred576
>>            http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=372321
>> Proposer:  lukz
>>            http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=94387
>>
>> * If two seconders are found within 1 week, voting will begin
>> * Otherwise, the proposal will automatically be rejected
>> * Alternatively, lukz may withdraw the proposal
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[Dave Smey]

I'm actually a little "meh" on this guy.

Quantity of edits is huge (8234) in a short period of time (6 months).  He
enters discs and just ARs the hell out of them.

Things I'm not crazy about - simply guessing that certain spellings are
typos, and editing all instances without more evidence. (He says in some
of his voting comments that he is "obsessed" with typos.)

Paging through a few hundred edits, I don't see any major troubleshooting
edits (though there are a lot of capitalization cleanups.)  No merges or
"this doesn't exist" finds.  (Anybody want to point to some particularly
impressive ones?)  Paging through votes, I'm also not finding any
interesting troubleshooting.

Obviously the enthusiasm is there but I wonder if he could stand to be a
little more seasoned.  I don't think it would be unreasonable to make him
wait a little.  But, maybe the substance is there, and I'm just not
finding it?

- Dave Smey (bklynd)
irritating n00b


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[Kuno Woudt-2]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 02:17:54PM -0400, Dave Smey wrote:
> Obviously the enthusiasm is there but I wonder if he could stand to be a
> little more seasoned.  I don't think it would be unreasonable to make him
> wait a little.  But, maybe the substance is there, and I'm just not
> finding it?

This is also my impression, based on a few encounters.  But with
moving and not having internet at my new apartement yet, I haven't
looked into it properly.... nor cast a vote.

-- kuno / warp.


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[Chad Wilson-2]

Dave Smey wrote:

> I'm actually a little "meh" on this guy.
>
> Quantity of edits is huge (8234) in a short period of time (6 months).  He
> enters discs and just ARs the hell out of them.
>
> Things I'm not crazy about - simply guessing that certain spellings are
> typos, and editing all instances without more evidence. (He says in some
> of his voting comments that he is "obsessed" with typos.)
>
> Paging through a few hundred edits, I don't see any major troubleshooting
> edits (though there are a lot of capitalization cleanups.)  No merges or
> "this doesn't exist" finds.  (Anybody want to point to some particularly
> impressive ones?)  Paging through votes, I'm also not finding any
> interesting troubleshooting.
>
> Obviously the enthusiasm is there but I wonder if he could stand to be a
> little more seasoned.  I don't think it would be unreasonable to make him
> wait a little.  But, maybe the substance is there, and I'm just not
> finding it?
>
> - Dave Smey (bklynd)
> irritating n00b
>  

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He's got quite a few artist merges, a few release merges (enough to show
that he knows how to do it). Worth noting that exception in the VA
abyss, there are a lot fewer releases these days ready to be merged due
to tools like Faux's dupscan.

His removal edits demonstrate an understanding of a variety of
conventions and guidelines (ASINs matching releases). He knows what he's
doing, he puts notes on almost every edit and he asks for guidance. I
like that behaviour.

Sure, his voting may not be in depth yet, but he's been doing so of his
own volition as far as I know (rather than being prompted for a
pre-auto-editor nomination surge), and I think that's pretty good. He's
finding his place and he seems to have the commitment to grow in this
area - anyone who cares about data quality to the level of typos Fred
does needs to be voting and fixing add release edits! :-)

This may be sacrilege to the wider MB community, but although I have
questioned a couple of the typo fixes and wasn't overly impressed with
the "not sure" response, I'm ready to accept that the net benefit of his
typo fixes, far outweighs the cost/risk a few false positives. That work
is time consuming and hard and seemingly not very rewarding to most, but
it does a lot to improve the image of MB data. Most users don't give a
shit about the release events and composers we wax lyrical about, but
they do care about typos in their tracks. :)

In any case, remember that Fred can turn off AutoEdit for any of his
typo fixing edits he's not "sure" about. It's not ideal, but I'll be
more than happy to vote on them and leave those ones in the queue.

Chad / voice

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Voting in this election is now closed: fred576 has been
accepted as an auto-moderator.  Congratulations!

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[Geof F. Morris]

Congratulations!

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Sent from my iPhone. I am remote right now.

On Jul 9, 2008, at 14:00, The Returning Officer <returning-officer@...
 > wrote:

> Voting in this election is now closed: fred576 has been
> accepted as an auto-moderator.  Congratulations!
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[Fred Marchee]

Thanks guys, now I really had to document my edits ;-)

Happy Fred.

The Returning Officers wrote:

> Voting in this election is now closed: fred576 has been
> accepted as an auto-moderator.  Congratulations!
>
> Details:
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