Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Runcorn

message: CrzRussian has suggested, "[Runcorn] seems to be going down the list more than once and just adding a bunch of AfD votes, a bit of "per nom" thing. Just sits down to AfD voting and runs through 30 at a time, as if s/he's working a shift. That sort of activity, while not objectionable per se, does not really indicate that s/he has mastered WP's policies and norms."
This surprised me, as it wasn't my perception when I looked through prior to suggesting the RfA, and I wondered if I'd got it wrong, so I looked through again. I can see why it might appear that Runcorn was simply totting up edits mindlessly and therefore not contributing anything worthwhile, and this is because he has a very economic approach, saying what he needs to get the job done without excess verbiage.
I have extracted all of Runcorn's comments from 4 of his sequences of *fD participations. The top sequence, CFD, is very revealing. The three repeated comments make it look as if he's not thinking properly. However, when he feels an explanation is needed (presumably because the point has not been made by anyone else) he does this accurately and concisely. What is even more telling is the AfD sequence, where he breaks off from his "shift", when he feels the necessity to (presumably search out and) add a reference to the article under discussion. This is clearly indicative of a conscientious approach, not a mechanical one. 
I always have a sense that whatever he says, he means it, that it has come about through the application of intelligence, not rote, and that it is an intelligence grounded in a sound knowledge of policies, apparent by the many different ways he has alluded to them. This is also shown by the targeted comment in each case with rare repetition, and not one "per nom" to be found.
===Categories for Deletion, August 24, 2006===
* Rename Definitely
*Keep Fictional freemasons, as that's something separate; Delete the others
*Delete This is a nonsense. Actually, a mutant could be anyone who has any genes not identical to either of their parents', and probably there are such Wikipedians and probably they don't even realise!
*Keep It's a question of definition; minor planets are (as their name indicates) small planets, and there are plenty of binary minor planets that could go here. rename to Binary minor planets? 
*Delete Ill-defined; is this American football, soccer or Australian rules?
*Delete pretty pointless
*Delete pretty pointless
*Delete pretty pointless
:(I repeated myself because there were three almost identical cats and there seemed no need to search for elegant variations.--Runcorn 20:44, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Runcorn's participation in *fD 

message: * Rename Definitely
*Keep Fictional freemasons, as that's something separate; Delete the others
*Delete This is a nonsense. Actually, a mutant could be anyone who has any genes not identical to either of their parents', and probably there are such Wikipedians and probably they don't even realise!
*Keep It's a question of definition; minor planets are (as their name indicates) small planets, and there are plenty of binary minor planets that could go here. rename to Binary minor planets? 
*Delete Ill-defined; is this American football, soccer or Australian rules?
*Delete pretty pointless
*Delete pretty pointless
*Delete pretty pointless
:(I repeated myself because there were three almost identical cats and there seemed no need to search for elegant variations.--Runcorn 20:44, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Categories for Deletion, August 24, 2006

message: Tyrenius 01:53, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes