SmashWiki:Requests for adminship

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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.
Candidates should describe why the wiki should want them to be sysops, not why they want to be sysops on the wiki.
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.

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.
Click on the created red link, and add:
{{subst:rfa|Username|reason for nomination}}

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

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, and where # is 2 for the second RfA, 3 for the third, and so on.
Click on the created red link, and add:
{{subst:rfa|Username|reason for nomination}}

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 failed.
	Reason:	Failed. Shadowcrest 01:02, June 29, 2010 (UTC)

Mr. Anon (talk • contribs • edit count • RFA page)

Candidate, please summarize why you are running for adminship below.
Hello. I've been contributing to this wiki for over 6 months. I've fought many vandals, and tagged many spam pages for deletion. I want Adminship to give me the tools to make this easier. I have had two IPs, so if you would like more information you could look through their contributions. One of my biggest goals here at this wiki is to fight vandalism. I keep hearing about schools not allowing Wikipedia as a source, saying that "anyone can edit it". I have always found wikipedia to be great resource however, but the vandalism there prevents it from becoming very reliable. Here, I would like to help Smashwiki keep its reliablity and respect throughout the Smash community. One of the worst kinds of vandalism is the creation of spam pages. When this happens, a normal user can't simply delete the page. They have to tag it with deletion, and an Administrator has to come and find it. However, there are times when the Admins aren't around when this kind of spam happens. I come here quite a lot, so I believe I can help stop this kind of spam. In short, I believe that I can use these tools responsibly, and hope you agree with me. Mr. Anon (talk) 18:54, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

Support

Slight Support I don't think you'd make a bad admin, but I think OT's RfA needs to be resolved first, and then after that we need to see if we need another sysop. Dr. Pain 99 Talk 21:29, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

Oppose

No. You're a good editor, but frankly I don't see you, as you currently are, as sysop material. Sorry. Miles (talk) 23:06, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
I don't think so, Tim. - You're an amazing editor, but your grammar and way of handling conflict is bad. BNK^[E|T|C] 02:03, June 24, 2010 (UTC)
Oppose Read above. Kperfekt ^{Talk Is Cheap...} ^{But I Am Not.} 04:00, June 24, 2010 (UTC)
Strong Oppose. We have no need for a janitorial sysop and you show an obvious lack of full understanding of the games to make you a "skill" sysop. I've hardly ever seen you resolve user conflict in any way that is appropriate for an administrator, and I quite frankly don't trust your judgment. I hate being this harsh, because you are a valuable contributor, but not all good college football players are NFL material and not all good soldiers are good generals... Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 04:21, June 24, 2010 (UTC)
Oppose I agree with what CHawk said, but you are also suppose to describe why the Wiki wants you to be a sysop, not why you want to be a sysop. Omega Tyrant 04:47, June 24, 2010 (UTC)
-45% Now that I've seen other people's opinions and notes about your edits, my position has strengthened. Toomai Glittershine The Stats Guy 16:11, June 24, 2010 (UTC)
Oppose The other opinions have influenced me.--Mega Tron1 XD 16:27, June 24, 2010 (UTC)
Oppose Yeah, I'm convinced your not ready yet.-Ivy 73 16:57, June 24, 2010 (UTC)

Neutral

-10% I don't really know why, but there's something here that doesn't seem right. Yeah, you notice/fix vandals, but you don't really stand out as "will improve this wiki with adminship". You probably should have waited until a few weeks after OmegaTyrant's RfA gets resolved, because compared to him you're not the better candidate. Toomai Glittershine The Table Designer 19:08, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
Neutrality: I've been on this wiki for a bit longer than you have, and frankly I've done similar things for those months, yet I'm no admin myself. Not to say you'd be a bad admin or anything, but Toomai has a point there. --Havoc Reaper '48 19:22, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
Leaning to oppose Not saying you'd be a bad admin, but I do that stuff as well, and I'm no admin. OT is trying to be admin right now. If he becomes admin, he'll patrol the wikia for a while.--Mega Tron1 XD 20:09, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

Comments

It seems that this RFA will not pass. What should I do to improve myself so that I can request later? I believe I can be a great help to the wiki, and I want to serve it. What should I do to "prove my worth"? Mr. Anon (talk) 05:26, June 24, 2010 (UTC)

Firstly, you should stop misusing rollback. It should only be used in instances of obvious vandalism, this edit was clearly not vandalism. When you see someone do an edit that you believe is false or unnecessary and is not vandalism, you undo the edit (or revert to an older version of the article if they made multiple faulty edits) and explain in the edit summary what the fault was with their edit. Though in the edit you rollbacked, the editor fixed some grammar mistakes and even though there were some faults in their edit, the edit did not need to be completely undone, especially with rollback. This shown an example of you using poor judgment, which is not acceptable for a potential admin. Secondly, you need more knowledge of the game. While not absolutely necessary for an admin, an admin should be very knowledgeable on at least one of the SSB games. Besides lacking this knowledge, you don't seem to have the clear understanding of the policies and guidelines along with the ability to handle user disputes well to make up for it. Omega Tyrant

06:41, June 24, 2010 (UTC)

Well, in that edit, there was one part that said something about MK that I interpreted as vandalism, because it changed what the sentence meant. I was sorta in a hurry, so I didn't have time to completely look at his edit. I apologize to the user since it was in good faith. Now, after testing a bit in Brawl, I can say that I know a lot about that game. I also know quite a lot about Melee, but I have some trouble executing the special techniques, but that doesn't mean I don't know their capabilities. About policies and disputes, could you please elaborate, because (no offence, I think you would make a great Admin) I haven't seen you solve many disputes either. Mr. Anon (talk) 17:57, June 24, 2010 (UTC)

I haven't intervene in another user's dispute yet, but I have gotten into quite a few of them myself. During all of them, I remained calm and rational while providing proper arguments. I even admitted it when I was at fault during them. One such dispute was the first dispute I got in when I first started editing back in April, which was with you over whether or not Ness' d-tilt was a meteor smash or a semi-spike. During the dispute, I kept providing details of my testing and how Ness' d-tilt failed to provide a trajectory reminiscent of a meteor smash. You on the other hand, kept on trying to counter my argument with "it needs to be sweetspotted" or "show me a video of your testing". Despite this being my first dispute, I clearly handled it well and in each subsequent dispute since, I have remained calm and rational, without resorting to using the same ineffective argument when it did not properly counter the opposition's argument. Omega Tyrant

18:41, June 24, 2010 (UTC)

Ok, then. I will try to be calm during disputes in the future. I hope we can still be friends. Mr. Anon (talk) 19:23, June 24, 2010 (UTC)

Now why would I hold a dispute we had that happened months ago against you? You wanted me to provide an example of me getting in an user dispute and I felt that this was the best example to provide to you. Omega Tyrant

07:14, June 25, 2010 (UTC)

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:	Passed. Shadowcrest 01:01, June 29, 2010 (UTC)

Omega Tyrant (talk • contribs • edit count • RFA page)

Candidate, please summarize why you are running for adminship below.
Hello again, I'm Michael Oliver, though I'm known around here as Omega Tyrant, commonly refer to as OT or Omega. I haven't been here long, but I believe I am ready to become a sysop. I have noticed the declining activity among the active administrators and I believe this Wiki would only benefit from me becoming an admin. I'm currently perhaps, the most active user on this Wiki. I'm constantly checking recent changes as well as the block log and deletion log. I've also shown a full understanding of the guidelines and policies, which I know is important for an administrator to have.

As you can see on the Administrator's noticeboard, I have a 0 tolerance for vandals. I have tagged spam, non notable smasher pages, and other pages that contained false or non notable information for deletion. When I look at the current pages tagged for deletion, a rather large amount of them should have been deleted a long time ago. This is unacceptable as if this Wiki is ever to be completed, we should have no pages tagged for deletion. All such pages should have been deleted or been found to be notable enough already. With the sysops powers, I can go through and delete all of these unnecessary pages as well as block vandals I often spot first instead of reporting them and waiting for an admin to come around and block them. I have noticed that many pages that constitute as spam and vandalism are often created in the early morning. As such, I'm often the first to spot them and having to sysop powers will allow me to delete these pages and keep them from ever being read by those who visit this Wiki. Since I've been giving rollback, I've only misused it once when someone made a good faith but false edit on Olimar's page about how he has multiple attacks such as his nair that had invincibility frames. When I went to undo this edit, I accidentally hit the rollback button instead of the undo button. I can assure that this will never happen again. I have also had experience with user conflicts and I have remained calm and rational during them. As such, I can assure I would never abuse my powers as sysop.

Instead of rehashing all of my contributions again, I'll mention the notable contributions I made since my RfR. I created two new articles, the first one being Shield damage, which Toomai made significant revisions to later. My other created article is the Up smash chart, which is a chart showing the relative power of every up smash. I have also been making major edits to character's SSBB pages, going through and removing false information, revising, and adding information. My most notable contribution has to be my joint project with Mako Shark on Priority. I have debunked years of false knowledge about priority that the professionals claimed as true. Who hasn't had it shoved down their throats that Captain Falcon has such horrible priority or that Meta Knight has such godly priority? Through this as well as from my other contributions I have shown that I don't blindly believe everything I read or hear as the truth, which I believe is a important quality for a sysop to have.

Again I'll bring up my inconsistent sleeping patterns, which causes me to be on this Wiki in the most unusual hours. If I became a sysop, this would almost assure that there will always be an administrator that's on. I have shown in my short time here that I'm dedicated to completing this Wiki. I can assure the community that if they decide that I should become an administrator, you will not regret it. Omega Tyrant 03:52, June 14, 2010 (UTC)