User:Jumbling/Admin coaching

Hi there, thanks for your offer of admin coaching guys!

Hi, and glad to be of help. It may be useful to lay out what you'd like coaching on, and perhaps even construct an agenda or syllabus (that sounds rather formal... call it a checklist of what we should try to accomplish). I often find it helpful to do a round of introductions. I would like to encourage everyone else to do so... I'll go first! ++Lar: t/c 02:32, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello from me as well. As a related note I find it helpful to put talk about the coaching (by that I mean discussing what topics need to be covered etc.) on the coaching talk page (i.e. User talk:Condem/Admin coaching) and do the actual coaching on this page. It just helps keep things a bit tidier! Petros471 08:20, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Place introductions here if you want.

My name is Larry Pieniazek. I've been doing things online for well over 20 years now, and am a keen student of communities and how they do things. There's some bio stuff on my talk page... I live in Michigan (in the US) with my wife and 2 kids and I like LEGO. I've been an administrator in other communities in the past. I have been an administrator here at en-wikipedia for about a month. As it said in my RFA questions especially #1, my focus is on things other than vandal fighting. I've been trying my hand at just about everything that admins do, though. In real life I work for IBM as a system architect (figuring out how software projects and systems can best be organised and carried out). I think Wikipedia is the neatest and most important thing that has been done on the internet yet! ++Lar: t/c 02:32, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I have a less impressive CV than Lar, being nearer to 20 years of age total (and no I wasn't online as a baby!). I'm in North Wales, where I live, work and study (at three different locations, so I know the coastal train line very well!).

I've been an admin here for around 2 months, and I tend do fairly usual admin type stuff like blocking vandals (the opposite of Lar, hence the pairing of the two of use so we can cover different aspects better). I do a lot of work over at WP:RFI, which means dealing with complicated cases. I also do some speedy deletions, and other 'mop' type admin work like history merges etc. Petros471 08:57, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

List of things we should try to achieve:

• Why do you want to be an admin? You are going to be asked this question and you should have a good answer that makes sense to you personally. More than just "it's neat" or "I want to help". (added by Lar, remove if you disagree, this is your coaching, so it's just a suggestion)