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 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.
• 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.
• Rollback status is not required for a successful RfA, but is highly encouraged. Users who only want sysop tools for quick reverts of vandalism will be 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.
• Users that have been blocked in the past, or who have previously made an RfA and failed, are no less eligible for adminship. However, such users should be able to demonstrate how they have improved since the block/previous RfA, lest their RfA find serious opposition.

Past nominations

• 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 two-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:rfa|Username|reason for nomination}}

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, and where # is 2 for the second RfA, 3 for the third, and so on.
2. 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:	User made this less than two weeks after blatantly failing previous one, demonstrating an utter lack of admin-level knowledge in general. Toomai Glittershine The Incomperable 14:23, 2 August 2014 (EDT)

Awesomelink234 (talk • contribs • edit count • RFA page)

Candidate, please summarize why you are running for adminship below.
Here's my second admin request. I now have over 100 edits and 50 mainspace edits. I'd be on every day and love to help out. I never vandalized once, not counting that one time where I thought Green Hill Zone was not a returning stage in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS until I was proven wrong by an admin. (I think it was Miles.) Awesomelink234 (talk) 12:37, 2 August 2014 (EDT)

Support

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Oppose

1. You haven't shown that you can do things that are necessary to being an admin on this wiki. Do you know all of the policies well? Do you handle debates professionally? 100 edits is barely anything, there are many active users who have much more edits but still aren't nearly ready to become admins (I have over 10,000 edits; more than 5,000 mainspace edits, yet I'm not even close to deserving adminship). Scr7(talk · contribs) 12:42, 2 August 2014 (EDT)
2. You don't have enough experience. Still. And remember, editcount does not play that much of a huge role in adminship. Emmett was a bureaucrat, and he only had 137 edits. Most admins have been around for years before requesting, so you should probably wait. Qwerty (talk) 12:46, 2 August 2014 (EDT)
3. Strong Oppose You based your adminship on your edit count, which as irrelevant as it is, is still a very meager 100 edits and is not at all something noteworthy. Without even looking extensively into your user history, I can see you're already blatantly unqualified based on your description; you never once tell us why you need the admin tools to help us, what you could do with the admin tools and how they would improve your ability to contribute, what you could contribute as an admin that the current admins can't, never show us anything to show how you would know what you're doing with adminship, and never tell us why you're a better admin candidates than other users. Your description is simply "hey I made some edits and am on the wiki a lot, I should have adminship". It does not work that way, you don't get adminship because you're a good user and you want it, you have to actually earn it and prove you having adminship would be a significant boon to the wiki. While the wiki has a severe need for more admins, we will not relax our adminship standards, and I will make sure of it to vehemently prevent users even less qualified than Miles to get adminship. Also, don't make a RfA so soon after your last RfA, that will just make it look like you want adminship for the sake of adminship, and will only guarantee your failure. Omega Tyrant 13:27, 2 August 2014 (EDT)

Neutral

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Comments

I would like to note that repeated RfAs in rapid succession, especially after your potential as an admin hasn't particularly improved, could be seen as disruptive behaviour, something that is considered a blockable offense. If you are still interested in becoming an administrator, I'd recommend looking at what's on this page before trying again.

--- Monsieur Crow, Author Extraordinaire, 12:53, 2 August 2014 (EDT)

Oh, and Qwerty: Emmett had 2142 edits on his account as "Shadowcrest" before changing his username to "Emmett".

--- Monsieur Crow, Author Extraordinaire, 13:15, 2 August 2014 (EDT)

Emmett/Shadowcrest isn't an example of a competent administrator anyway, as he didn't care much (if at all) for Super Smash Bros. and constantly attacked users on the wiki and on IRC. The former point is probably unbecoming of a contributor in general, but it still stands. Blue Ninjakoopa 13:48, 2 August 2014 (EDT)

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