SmashWiki:Requests for adminship

This page documents an official SmashWiki policy, a widely accepted standard that all users should follow. When editing this page, please ensure that your revision reflects consensus. If in doubt, consider discussing changes on the talk page.

This is the page for requesting adminship for SmashWiki.

Rules & Regulations

• 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.
• 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.
• Selections of sysops are not a simple vote count, or majority opinion. Users who wish to be promoted should demonstrate a steady commitment to this wiki, and be able to point to reasons that the sysop tools would allow them to do better editing.
• When supporting or opposing a candidate, give good reasons. Comments that describe in detail why the candidate should/should not become a sysop carry far more weight than simple support/oppose. Also, support comments that reference only edit count carry almost no weight in the selection process.
• Rollback status is not required for a successful RfA, but is highly encouraged. However, users who only want sysop tools for quick reverts of vandalism will be refused and directed towards the appropriate request.
• Upon request, a prospective sysop may be given a scenario and asked his/her opinion on how s/he would handle it.
• If a user has been blocked for any reason (except an IP auto-block or a wrong button click), s/he must wait a period of at least four months from the expiry of his/her ban until s/he may even be considered for adminship. Even after this time period has passed, the user should be prepared to answer questions about his/her block.
• For users that have had previous unsuccessful RfAs and are planning to open a new one, consider the reasons that the previous nominations failed. Has anything changed about you that would make a new nomination successful?

Past nominations

• For a list of all previous requests for adminship, please see this category.
  • For a list of all previous requests for adminship that ended with the candidate's promotion, please see this category.
  • For a list of all previous requests for adminship wherein the candidate was not promoted, please see this category.

How to nominate

If you have not had a request for adminship page before, follow this 2 step process.

1. Go to the end of the requests section below, and add the following text:

   {{{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}/Username}}

   Where "Username" is the name of the user being nominated.
2. Click on the created red link, and add:

   {{subst:rfa1|Username}}

However, if you have had a previous request for adminship, follow this process instead.

1. Go to the end of the requests section below, and add the following text:

   {{{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}/Username (#)}}

   Where "Username" is the name of the user being nominated.
   Where # is 2 for the second RfA, 3 for the third, and so on.
2. Click on the created red link, and add:

   {{subst:rfa1|Username}}

Current requests

The following discussion is an archived debate of the nomination of a user for adminship. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.

	This RfA was closed as successful.
	Reason:	No reason given.

Defiant Elements (talk • contribs • edit count • RFA page)

Candidate, please summarize why you are running for adminship below.

I've been reluctant to run for adminship in the past because it's always seemed as though SmashWiki has had a sufficient number of sysops. However, lately, it has seemed as though it wouldn't hurt to have an additional sysop or two; thus, this RFA. (And besides, the irony of my becoming a sysop considering the first slew of edits I made to SmashWiki is just too good to pass up.)

I always hate writing candidate statements for RfAs because, as I've said on more RfAs than I can count, there are only a very few people who can honestly claim that they "need" the sysop tools. I will note, however, that I've been editing wikis, beginning with GuildWiki, since October '06, and that I was a bureaucrat and founding member of PvXwiki and a sysop on the Guild Wars Wiki. I'm not the most active user around here, but I am on pretty much every day, and though my edit count isn't terrifically high, quality over quantity and all that jazz. With those two things said, I'll limit my self-aggrandizement to simply saying that I believe I'd make a strong addition to the administrative team (my contributions should, hopefully, bear that out) and let you all be the judges. If y'all have any specific questions, I'll be happy to answer 'em on the talk page.

Cheers. – Defiant Elements +talk 02:36, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Support

• Support Like seriously, Guildwiki is taking over :o. But honestly, great contributor, knows his around a debate, and way overdue for this. - Hatake91 (talk) 02:43, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support- Defiant Elements is like a more amazing version of me, so I expect everyone who supported me to support DE as well :P --Shadowcrest 14:28, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Get off the bandwagon please. Blue Ninjakoopa 15:33, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

I knew DE before all of you, so tbh get off my bandwagon pls. --Shadowcrest 18:58, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Please. There is no "bandwagon" anymore. Blue Ninjakoopa 20:31, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

• K - You have some problems but you're good to go for adminship I suppose. Blue Ninjakoopa 15:33, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
• SupportObviously one of the most productive users here, DE knows his way around the wiki. As far as I know, he's been the cool neutral voice of reasoning in user conflicts, and he's someone that I would like as a lawyer. R0C|< 0|\|!L33t Silvie ^{Your epidermis is showing.} 19:25, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support What L33tSilvie said, but I would also expect that you would make more edits if you got this power. Of course, my ability to force you to do anything is pretty much nil, but take it as a suggestion.--Bek (talk) 20:24, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Admins don't need to edit everyday- I rarely edit GuildWiki, but I check there numerous times a day and sit on their IRC channel for at least 6 hours a day. I fully believe that DE checks in frequently, given he edits here even when he doesn't edit PvX or GWW. And that's all that's really required from him, seeing as even if he were promoted somehow I don't think he'd prefer to just do mundane stuff. --Shadowcrest 20:34, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

• Mild Support. DE knows what he's doing and has been helpful not only in standard editing but also in user discussions. Miles (talk) 22:43, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support Good user who I think would bear this responsibility well. Toon Ganondorf (t c) 10:28, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support I think DE would handle the tools well, and he's got years of experience with other wikis too. ClonedPickle 18:00, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support As per above. Gutripper^Speak 02:14, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Oppose

• ...

Neutral

• Hrm? - I'm not sure if he'll use these tools properly. Blue Ninjakoopa 20:31, 27 April 2009 (UTC)