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This page covers the philosophy of Wikipedian Vaoverland as one of the English Wikipedia administrators :
As of February 2009, there were over 8.9 million registered user accounts on the English Wikipedia. There were 1,624 administrators. Of these, even less, only 968 of us, were considered active.
To quote Wikipedia policy, being an administrator "is oriented to communal trust and confidence, rather than checklists and edit counts."
I was one of the earlier people to band together to help create and build Wikipedia. I have been pro-Wikipedia and believe that I have interacted with other uses in ways that should be good for Wikipedia, including sensitive and nurturing interaction with newbies and encouraging anonymous IP contributors to register.
As a Wikipedia administrator, in addition to my own work and projects, I enjoy helping others and expediting certain functions. As a fairly-experienced editor and with some additional tools available to administrators, I am always glad to assist with tasks such as page moves, renaming articles, etc. However, I feel any requests for mediation of occasional conflicts between Wikipedians, such as edit wars, and other areas of controversy are best presented to other administrators and bureaucrats.
As a part of my housekeeping duties with Wikipedia, I currently monitor via my watch list about 3,500 articles for accuracy and quality, actively maintaining some of them with periodic additions. I try to check over any changes in any of them, and regarding inappropriate changes, these can be flagged for cleanup, improvement, or undone when they are entirely vandalism or foolishness, and not in good faith.
Despite administrator responsibilities, I much prefer to work on content and not to be involved in controversial activities and conflicts between WP users, which occur occasionally as I suppose they do with all multi-person endeavors. On a more positive note, I have found that collaboration is one of the best things about Wikipedia. I try to be helpful to other contributors, and appreciate comments and communications which should be left on my Talk page (User Talk:Vaoverland).