SmashWiki:Requests for adminship: Difference between revisions

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This is the page for requesting adminship for SmashWiki.

Rules

Only self-nominations are allowed. If you think that another member would make a good sysop, then you can convince them to nominate themselves. You cannot, however, make a nomination on behalf of another user.
All new nominees should post their name below as a in a level 3 header (===Username===). Underneath, the user should state why he/she would like to become an administrator. Posting examples of notable work that the nominee has contributed is highly encouraged.
Users who wish to support, oppose, or comment on the nomination may do so underneath the person requesting adminship.
After sufficient time has passed to allow all users who wish to express an opinion the chance to do so, a decision will be made based on community consensus as to whether or not the request will succeed. Once a decision has been made, the discussion will be archived and moved to an appropriate subpage.

Requests

Oxico

Hello all my Smashwiki friends. I am a vivid editor named Oxico and I have been hoping to gain sysop power since I came here. Some things I have done include editing all character articles by adding the Special Movements sections and heavily editing most movesets. I also have helped pick out and weed alot of, shall I say, faulty information in the articles. However, I have always wanted the ability to delete unneccesarry pages.

Though I may be young compared to other users who were nominated for Sysop, I have much desire to fufill this role. When I first joined last December, I thought the Wiki needed no help. It looked fine, and I didn't think my help was needed. I started looking through the pages, and I saw some information I had not seen anywhere else on one of the character pages. I looked every place where valid Smash Bros. information was, but could not find a good source to back the information. So, I edited it out and called it speculation. I did this to many different pages, and soon, I was an avid editor. When Final Smash information was leaked, I created many of the Final Smash pages. I also calculated the damage for every Final Smash. I also made sure all character articles were treated equally. they must all look the same way, to keep order. My crowning jewel, I believe is the Special Movements sections on every character's article in SSBB. The sections took me a long time, as I had to find out much information in other videos for On-Screen Appearances and the like. Most information on the On-Screen Appearance page and Taunt page.

Here is a link to show all my contributions.

http://super-smash-bros.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Oxico

--Oxico (talk) 03:07, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I Strongly Support He is a very loyal asset and i see him update evrything. He has gotten my vote! Zmario (talk) 14:47, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Neutral. While everything that Oxico has done has been quite good, I've only seen him working in very specific areas of the wiki. I also have not seen him doing any of the house keeping on the wiki such as marking articles for cleanup or labeling stubs. More of this would help his case, as would simply more editing in general. However, his contributions to character animations do show dedication and I don't feel that he would abuse the tools if he were given them. Clarinet Hawk (talk) 01:26, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Somewhat Support. He did a lot of the technical stuff like damage percentages and codecs, right? I may not agree with his actual gameplay style, but he's done very well with editing articles, even if I can't think of specific examples at the moment. But I know I've been seeing his name a LOT of different places lately. - Gargomon251 (talk) 01:32, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I Support. He worked very hard on the special movements page for each character. And he updates a lot of information a lot every day. Oxico would be a great admin. JtM (talk) 13:43, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Extreme Support. I though he already WAS a sysop. Kperfekt722 (talk) 22:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Oppose: Seems to want it just to have the tools, user has not expressed reasoning for actually needing them. --Charitwo 07:00, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Support. I'm not saying that just because I'm his friend either. He really wants the power of sysop. You can tell he has great passion towards this site, especially once you see his contributions. He'd make a good sysop in my opinion. Go get 'em, buddy! - GalaxiaD (talk) 03:25, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Gargomon251

GalaxiaD recommended I check this out. It would be nice to be able to do things like protect pages, block users, merge pages etc., I'm just not sure how much time I can devote to this. Maybe I just need a little more information. I have many positive comments on my talk page, and I always check for vandalism/errors in the late hours, but I'm never here on any particular schedule, and I know I've made some hasty edits in the past. Also I won't be able to edit any SSB articles since I don't have it, and since I usually do this from my Wii, major edits at would require copying and pasting may prove difficult, given how bad my PC is. However, I do play often, and I am very good with the smaller edits like spelling and grammar, even if I'm unlikely to write entire articles or edit specific data such as character matchups, character history, or fan-games. Well, now that I think of it, this isn't a very convincing argument towards my adminship...hmm. Well maybe if others agree, I can find out what is required. - Gargomon251 (talk) 01:16, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Strong Support. The lack of PC thing does suck, but Gargomon has been a true asset to this wiki for some time now. I think he's deserving of the tools if only to make it easier for him to continue doing what he has been. Clarinet Hawk (talk) 01:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Strong Support. You're a great editor. I'm glad to see that you're running. --Posted by Pikamander2 (Talk) at 02:36, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Strong Support. Heck, I was the one who suggested he try this out in the first place. I truly do believe that he'll make a great sysop. With the tools of an admin at his disposal, there's nothing he won't be able to accomplish. He's the Leonardo da Vinci of SmashWiki. - GalaxiaD (talk) 02:46, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Support Kperfekt722 (talk) 10:54, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Gargomon has been doing this without a PC for the last six months. If he didn't tell me that he wasn't using a PC, I would never have known. His contributions are great; what does it matter what he's using to make them. Clarinet Hawk (talk) 15:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

You know what? Your right. I'm changing my vote to Support Kperfekt722 (talk) 20:50, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Just a note, my PC works, but it's over ten years old, running on Windows2000. I can still make full page edits, but it's not gonna happen very often. Sometime this year I should get a new(er) PC from my brother and then it will be smooth. - Gargomon251 (talk) 02:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Neutral Based on the nom and explanation of why he wants the tools, I don't want to support; but there's no reason to oppose. --Charitwo 06:58, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Oppose I really don't see the need. Plus, you even said yourself you can't find the time to do it and it takes to long for you. Why become a sysop if you can't find the time to do it. I would vote support if you didn't bag yourself like that. Zmario (talk) 21:23, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I just meant no MAJOR edits. Maybe the upcoming Firefox3 launch will make things smoother? - Gargomon251 (talk) 02:03, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Neutral I'm sorry Garg. But have you seen your comments on the Add A Fact talk page? Sure it's okay to correct, but a GOOD sysop would've showed the way to a new user. Instead of flaming, try correcting. Also, control your anger. I prefer IE though... But I heard the Fx3 features are similar to IE. Plus, it kinda makes you more lazy... I mean c'mon. Ctrl+B (not sure if thats the config) just to go to Back when you could just click the arrow up in the left corner. <_< ItemHazard (talk) 01:11, 24 June 2008 (UTC) ItemHazard

Sorry, I know I overreact sometimes, but when it's always the same stupid mistakes, and I even added the disclaimer, even though it's not necessarily the same person every time. I can only be civil so many times before it really gets on my nerves, especially when some of these things seem outright stupid, like the "fact" about Wario-Man flying that's been widely known for well over 5 months or more. And I have no idea what you mean by "ctrl-b". I alwas click the Back arrow or Backspace. What browser is any different? How is that lazy?- Gargomon251 (talk) 05:28, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Zmario

Once again I am running for the sysop nomination. I hope I could become a sysop because of the massive amounts of time I am on wikia. I know a lot bout all three games and own the startegy guides. I am always decribed as creative and outgoing. That is why you have seen me more obn lately. Once my school lets out can come online all the time and contribute to the already great Super Smash Bros Wikia! I want to be able to ban/block someone for spamming or doing other non-appropriate things on articles. I have been here since march and I know my way around the site. I upload pictures and find and flush out baddies. If you ask me this is the new Improved Zmario. Zmario v0.2 BABY!

Support. Eh, you've made enough edits. Kperfekt722 (talk) 10:54, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Oppose - You are far too quick to anger, and attempting to circumvent the block that Silver placed on you was inappropriate (not that I agree with the block, naturally). --Sky (t · c · w) 07:01, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Support. I'm none too familiar with Zmario's past, since I've only been here for two months. However, I know that he's worked hard during all the time he's been here. Sure, he may have once personally attacked others and made joke pages, but I believe he has changed. He has acquired responsibility, a trait that is very important for adminship. Heck, I believe it to be a requisite. We can all learn to forgive and forget, right? Zmario has admitted that he's a new person, and his contributions have grown. Let's give him the power of adminship. - GalaxiaD (talk) 18:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Oppose Maybe next time, I don't want a fellow sysop with temperament issues. --Charitwo 06:56, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Neutral I can't really find any reason to oppose, but as much as I hate to say it, I can't find many reasons to support either.. (Wolf O'Donnell (talk · contributions) 07:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC))

I'm sorry to have to say this, but it's just too soon after your ban for me to be sure that you've changed. Keep up the editing and working with the wiki and maybe have another go at this in a few months. Right now, however, I have to oppose. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 01:58, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Oppose This guy keeps teetering on the fence between "helpful" and "dear God, what are you doing??" While contributions have greatly improved, there have been many rules broken, multitudes of trivial articles created, and a lot of petty arguments and problems with users. Maybe after a few years of maturation, this one might be ready for something like this. Maybe. FyreNWater - (Talk • Contributions ) 06:05, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

SupportHe's made a lot of good edits. Yes he gets angry, but don't we all? Don't we all? Ike6481 (talk) 20:32, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Oppose - You already applied, failed and were banned in the interim. Since, you have demonstrated little more than the ability to cater your contributions to avoid being banned again. And somehow, you don't know how to use a talk page to keep a discussion all in one place either. How did we end up with MULTIPLE people applying for SysOp positions who don't understand how to hold a conversation through utilizing a simple user tool like the watchlist? Honestly, do you people even know what a SysOp is? Why do you want this position, really? What good is it going to do you in your day-to-day SmashWiki contributions? It's not even worth it for me to spend this time writing an opposing voice on the issue, but there's so many people who come on here with a shoddy application that doesn't really say anything and then they go around to all their buddies and ask "hey, come comment on my sysop thing." And of course, not wanting to be rude, they blindly follow the orders and drop in to say "Support - he makes good edits" without the slightest idea of what a SysOp even is. It just gives me a headache. Please, focus on your work as a user--if you're an enthusiastic editor, odds are you'd be better off learning how to use the buttons you already have without having to worry about a bunch of extra ones that could end up breaking the entire wiki in the wrong hands. --RJM ^Talk 20:49, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Support I'm pretty new here so I haven't known about Zmario's past, but he makes more then enough edits to become a sysop. JtM (talk) 21:41, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to have to make a move to close this one as failed. Some users seem to support him, but none of the current sysops do. Any objections to closing this should be placed below this comment. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 14:31, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

These should all be closed, really. --RJM ^Talk 05:16, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I really think this should still be up till we get a leaning towards one side... Kperfekt722 (talk) 05:02, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

It doesn't matter. The balance of supporters and non-supporters has nothing to do with who is selected. Ever since people began calling people out to come "vote" for them, this process has looked like nothing more than a popularity contest. --RJM ^Talk 05:21, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Support Creating certain articles that actually helped me. Sorry for my fanboy personality. ItemHazard (talk) 01:14, 24 June 2008 (UTC) ItemHazard

Pikamander2

Hello everyone. I'm Pikamander2. I have been editing SmashWiki for nearly a year now. Many of my edits are cleanup or reverting vandalism. I have never really thought of becoming a sysop, until the subject was mentioned on my talk page. After that, I thought, "Well, why not? I suppose that I could give it a try."

Here are a few reasons why I believe that I should become a sysop:

I contribute nearly every day
I never use foul language, on regular or talk pages
I use real good grammar and speling 99% of the time
I don't melt or get angry under pressure.

So, what does everyone think?

Neutral. You don't go into much detail or explain what you're going to do once you acquire adminship. Your contributions so far have been pretty good, though. If you had been more specific, I'd support you for sure. - GalaxiaD (talk) 22:39, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Mainly, I want to be able to Block IPs/protect pages when necessary. --Posted by Pikamander2 (Talk) at 00:15, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh, okay. I suppose if you're going to do that and remain responsible, then I don't see why you shouldn't be a sysop. Support. - GalaxiaD (talk) 03:02, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Strong Support. You definitely make enough contributions to the smash community. In fact, I thought you already were an admin! JtM (talk) 03:26, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I won't judge your potential as an admin, but you said

I use real good grammar and speling 99% of the time

You spelled "spelling" wrong AND you should have said "very well". Were you joking when you typed that bullet point? - Gargomon251 (talk) 08:59, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I was joking there. Note the "99% of the time." --Posted by Pikamander2 (Talk) at 12:15, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

You'd be surprised how often I see people type like this without even knowing. - Gargomon251 (talk) 02:47, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I know this isn't the best way to decide something, but I'm a bit torn... How long have you been here? Kperfekt722 (talk) 21:58, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I made my first edit to the Wiki on July 20, 2007. --Posted by Pikamander2 (Talk) at 22:22, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Well with your first ever edit being back there, I suppose I can give a Support. Kperfekt722 (talk) 20:52, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Neutral Don't really have any reason to oppose but don't seem to be able to support due to various reasons in this discussion...sorry --Charitwo 06:55, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Neutral I can't think of any reason to support nor oppose. Zmario (talk) 21:27, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Strong Support, in fact, Uber support. After all, I thought of it first. ;D You contribute enough, and you haven't made a mistake at all. Never been banned or anything. You are the exact definition of an op. Therefore, I support you. --TheSilenceOfNoOne

S-u-u-u-u-pport! Nice editing. ItemHazard (talk) 19:24, 22 June 2008 (UTC) ItemHazard

GalaxiaD

The desire to achieve adminship has been tearing at me for a few days now, so I decided to give this a shot. I usually don't speak much about wanting to be a sysop, since I'm not what people would consider as an ambitious person. Indeed, power is not what I crave. I want to become an admin in order to help people. I've helped many people over my lifetime, and I believe that the powers of admin can further help me achieve this goal.

I first joined this great Wiki on April 17, 2008. I may have only been here for two months, but the number of contributions I've made to this site helps make up for that. Early in my editing career, I posted strategies on the "Meta Knight Match-Ups" page. I posted situational match-ups for every character. Every single one. That article has since disappeared, but I felt like I truly provided a great service to those looking to main Meta Knight. After a few weeks of inactivity, I started contributing more actively, and I have since cleaned up a lot of spelling and punctuation errors on many articles. I've also discovered some glitches in Brawl, and have posted them where appropriate. My most recent edit of somewhat notable acclaim is that I made a "Changes from N64 to Melee" section on every veteran's Melee page. This was an attempt to maintain consistency, as every veteran had a "Changes from Melee to Brawl" section on their Brawl pages. I believed it was the right thing to do.

As far as the Smash series goes, I am very knowledgable of it, and I have owned every installment since the original on N64. Therefore, I could make many edits that make logical sense to most people. I am also quite skilled, though it doesn't exactly pertain to my run for adminship. I am a supporter of tiers, and I have developed a well thought-out theory of their existence. This won't win me any points with anti-tiers, but it is still a notable asset.

As for what I would do if I achieved adminship, it would be great to protect pages, block vandals, and delete joke pages. Delivering the Iron Fist of Justice upon vandals is something I've wanted to do for a long time. I love this site, and I just hate those who would want to ruin it. Also, some people end up getting blocked by mistake (usually because of IP Address issues). Since I survey this site every day, I could quickly lift someone's ban if they accidently got blocked for no reason.

The traits that define me most are intelligence, honor, and professionalism. I type in a very professional manner, and I hardly ever make spelling, capitalization, or punctuation errors. My 3.6 GPA in high school further reflects my intelligence, and if I used it to its full potential, I feel like I could really get some work done here.

Overall, becoming an admin means to me that I could help those in need and make this site (and to a smaller extent, the world) a better place. To help is my intention, not to hurt or abuse my power. I would love to become a role model to people, and as hard as I've worked, I wouldn't want this dream to go up in smoke. The hard work I've done, and the hard work I'm going to do, made this site better, but now I'm ready for the next level. Please support me, for in the long run, you certainly won't regret it. Thank you. - GalaxiaD (talk) 02:27, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Strongly SupportHe is one of the most active users here, As well as a huge contributor to the wiki.I'm sure that he'd do an even better job as a admin.And if he gets too wrapped up in his '"justice" I'll be sure to knock some sense into him. Hatake91 (talk) 02:52, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Strongly SupportHe is one of my few friends here and I think he would really do well as an admin. He is a very noble and honorable person, as well as a great friend. Roxas Ansem Destiny (talk) 03:33, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh no, I hate when I have to vote for my friends. Im going to say Neutral. I see you alot, but I really don't see MAJOR edits. Sorry dude. Also, if you were to create more pages, that would be helpful. Zmario (talk) 09:31, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Support He's been a good friend, and is certainly an active contributor. However, I have to curse him, since I know I'd be opposed were I to run for Sysop-ness. Ike6481 (talk) 18:47, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Support I've seen you around SmashWiki a bunch, and it's clear that you make great edits. --Posted by Pikamander2 (Talk) at 22:57, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I didn't realize that you have made so few edits to the Main namespace. I'm sorry, but I now Oppose.

Support You are a regular contributor. While I do not see many "Major" edits, I do see alot of improvement on the wiki because of you. (Wolf O'Donnell (talk · contributions) 06:39, 21 June 2008 (UTC))

Support It would be strong but as almost everyone above me has already stated, you haven't had many big edits, if so were done this would be a full support. Kperfekt722 (talk) 17:38, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Oppose Absolutely not. Though very enthusiastic, he has very little concept of the operational side of a wiki and spends the bulk of his contributions in the forum namespace and talk pages (which he also doesn't know how to use correctly; it's as though he doesn't realize that the watchlist exists). In the main namespace, GalaxiaD has less than 100 edits. Additionally, he's gone around suggesting to other users that they should nominate themselves for SysOp without having the slightest idea of what that entails or what qualities and skills would even be appropriate for an administrative figurehead in the wiki community. The fact that there is such a strong showing of support based on NOTHING relevant to the job is an excellent example of why this nomination page should not have comments from the general user base at all. Otherwise, anyone could rally all their friends together to show "support" for bringing people into the administrative fold who don't even know what a template is, can't explain how to fix a double redirect and don't know the difference between deleting a page and deleting its contents. It's great that you don't want to abuse your power and it's great that you want to help, but you can't live life on good intentions and before you worry about your "dreams going up in smoke," you have to realize that you're playing with fire that you don't understand. --RJM ^Talk 18:46, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Weak Oppose. I'm sorry, but I have to agree with Randal here. While what you have done in the main namespace has been good, it is few and far between. I mostly see you frequenting the forums and talk spaces, and rarely see you doing the housekeeping that is needed such as marking pages for cleanup, merge, or deletion. Mostly, I would just say to give it more time. You've only been here for two months. I know I was considered new for becoming a sysop after being here for eight months and having over 500 edits. Keep up what you've been doing and show some dedication to the housekeeping of the wiki and come back in a few months. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 20:55, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Oppose: Randall makes a good point, you haven't really been here long enough at all to even be considered. Sorry. -- Charitwo 21:03, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Strong Support You were one of the first people on this wikia i saw editing (Hence I'm even newer than you). You make great contributions daily. You let your anger get the better of you sometimes, but than you apologize and revert the rampage. JtM (talk) 22:35, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Slight Support You're a very active user. Although I agree on some parts on what Randall said, time shouldn't matter. Let's say hypothetically, if GalaxiaD made over 500 edits in one week, shouldn't that be enough to consider him a sysop? Also, he's notable for his Meta Knight match-ups page. Nicely done! But my opposing side is that you tend to argue alot, even for such simple things. Also needing of more major edits. ItemHazard (talk) 19:33, 22 June 2008 (UTC) ItemHazard

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 :I really think this should still be up till we get a leaning towards one side... [[User:Kperfekt722|Kperfekt722]] ([[User talk:Kperfekt722|talk]]) 05:02, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
+::It doesn't matter. The balance of supporters and non-supporters has nothing to do with who is selected. Ever since people began calling people out to come "vote" for them, this process has looked like nothing more than a popularity contest. --<font color="000023">'''[[User:Randall00|RJM]]'''</font> <sup>''[[User talk:Randall00|Talk]]''</sup> 05:21, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 '''Support''' Creating certain articles that actually helped me. Sorry for my fanboy personality. [[User:ItemHazard|ItemHazard]] ([[User talk:ItemHazard|talk]]) 01:14, 24 June 2008 (UTC) ItemHazard

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