Wookieepedia:Requests for adminship

This page is for requests for adminship.

You may:
 * Nominate yourself;
 * Nominate another Wookieepedian (please ensure they accept the nomination first)

Voting will last two weeks, at which time, if the vote is affirmative, the nominee will be granted administrator status.

To view past requests, see the RFA archive.

See also Requests for bureaucratship.

Requirements
There are some basic things to consider when nominating a fellow Wookieepedian (or yourself) for adminship.


 * 1) They have an account under a screenname.
 * 2) They have actively contributed for at least six months to the wiki.
 * 3) They have demonstrated they are willing to take on additional responsibilities to make the community better.
 * 4) They have had at least some major article creations.
 * 5) They have dealings with other users on a regular basis in a fair, restrained, and constructive manner.
 * 6) They have demonstrated an understanding of the community's methods of operation.
 * 7) Registered users' votes must have a 2/3rds supermajority for adminship to be accepted.
 * 8) Administrators' votes must have a 2/3rds supermajority for adminship to be accepted. (Separated from user votes)
 * 9) Bureaucrats' votes must be unanimous for adminship to be accepted.
 * 10) Additionally, the nominee may be asked a series of questions by users. While it is not required to answer them, it is strongly encouraged since it may affect how others decide and vote on the RFA.

Questions
Here are some general adminship questions. They are 100% optional, so feel free to answer all, some, or none of them. :) G .He (Talk!) 20:07, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

G1 Why do you want to become an administrator?

G2 In your opinion, what is the role of an administrator?

G3 In your view, do administrators hold a technical or political position?

G4 How do feel admins should use their power/stand in comparison with other users?

G5 Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

G6 Of your articles or contributions to Wookieepedia, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?

G7 What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with?

G8 How important is it for you to be involved in things such as CT, IDrive, FA, and other community-centered items that involve discussion and voting?

G9 Do you think admins performing actions (I.e. deletions, blocks, etc.) for reasons not covered on policy should be sanctioned/punished? If so, how?

G10 What is your policy, if any, of welcoming new users? Should you welcome a new user, do you look at his/her contributions beforehand? What about anonymous IPs?

G11 How would you react if someone undeleted an article you'd mistakenly speedied? Under what circumstances would you consider it appropriate to undelete an article mistakenly speedied by another administrator, if any, and how would you approach this task?

G12 How would you react if your user page was vandalized? Under what circumstances would you block the offender? Is there anything else that you would do in this situation?

G13 Under what circumstances would you consider blocking an established user?

G14 If you could change any one thing about Wookieepedia, what would it be?

G15 Would you look at a glass to be half-empty or half-full?

C1 Do you feel the current blocking policy is too restrictive, not restrictive enough, or OK as it is?

C2 Have you ever considered becoming a regular visitor to the Wookieepedia IRC chat?

C3 How do you feel about people who already have some influence on other Star Wars communities (TheForce.Net, StarWars.com) trying to change policies here?

C4 How many clones do you think fought in the Clone Wars? (Note: You are wrong no matter what answer you give.)

C5 Who is the most awesome Jedi of all time? (Note: The only correct answer is Kyle Katarn.)


 * OK, just kidding about the last two. :-) -- Darth Culator  (Talk) 00:18, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

K1 Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? Kuralyov 00:19, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I1 What's more important to you: consensus or policy? --Imp 00:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Lorth Needa (1 user/4 users + 5 admins/0)
Two week deadline from first request, voting ends (16 December).

Support

 * 1)  Lorth Needa Striptease 01:53, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) I hate to be the first to cast an oppose vote, but I'm afraid I can't support your nomination at this time. This is primarily because your edit count is too low, and currently heavily skewed towards edits of your own userpage. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 02:16, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Main namespace edits: 179. User namespace edits: 354. This is a joke, right? -- Darth Culator  (Talk)(TINC) 02:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) As above...besides...have you even been here 6+ monrhs? &mdash;Jaymach Ral'Tir (talk) 02:36, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Sorry, need more contributions. G .He (Talk!) 02:51, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * No, plays DotA. J/k (or am I?), although I am in strong agreeance with the 2nd point.
 * 1) Sorry, but no. Green Tentacle (Talk) 14:50, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Sorry... Can you vote for yourself?-- Lord Oblivion Sith holocron[[Image:Oldsith.png|30px]] 16:27, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, you can. —Xwing328 (Talk) 18:06, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Kuralyov 19:47, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Imp 21:18, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose. Darth Culator says it all. jSarek 22:19, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Neutral/comments

 * See http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/User:Editcount/editcount.js?username=Lorth+Needa for user contributions. If you have IE, ask me and I'll display the raw data here. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 01:59, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * He has been here since May 26, 2006, so yes, Jaymach. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 02:41, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Roron Corobb (1 user/1 user + 1 admin + 1 bureaucrat/0)
Two week deadline from first request, voting ends (16 December).

Oppose

 * 1) 3212 edits for 1411 pages since May 28, with only 2368 edits for actual content pages. Plus, 11 years old is too young for an admin. Kuralyov 19:45, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Gotta agree with Kuralyov, you're kinda young. Green Tentacle (Talk) 19:58, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) 11 years? Sorry, no way. - Sikon 20:34, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Oppose, based on age. I'm not technically sure under COPPA we're allowed to have him as a *user*, let alone an admin. jSarek 22:19, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Neutral/comments
style="color:orange;">Roron Corobb ]]  02:41, 2 December 2006 (UTC) Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 I have never argued over and edit or participated in an edit war or user conflict, I try to prevent them when possible and try to keep myself from becoming aggressive. In the future I plan to use it the same way if I become an admin. style="color:orange;">Roron Corobb ]]  02:57, 2 December 2006 (UTC) IG-88A is probably my largest article made, and I think it can be featured if i just clean it up a little bit. I also think that Duel on Bespin could be made somewhat better. Looking for vandals, welcoming users, deleting nonsense pages, and images is what I'd usually be doing. Important, everyones vote counts, and i'm not just saying this, I have seen some CTs where the vote could have failed if just one or two more users voted for that side. If the admin just makes a couple mistakes he shouldn't have the whole community jeering at him, but yes if an admin is running around blocking people for no reason and deleting pages at random the of course. I welcome all users who come to Wookieepedia, and but when I see an IP, most vandalism in my opinion is done by IPs so I always check their contributions first and then I leave the Join Wookieepedia Darth Vader head thingy. I would tell them about their mistake on their talk page and simply undelete it. Under most circumstances I would probably ask them if they ment to on their talk page first, just to be sure. My user page has been vandalized once before but I don't get angry at all if all the guy does is type LINLINLINLIN a hundred times, (thats what he did to me). But if he is make extremely rude insults i just try to ignore them and just revert and report it. If they just vandalize, troll, make rude comments and pretty much what they all get banned for plain and simple. If there would be no vandalism isn't an option I would choose that it would be more well known. This is because my guess is we have about 55 active users who are on almost every day but there are a ton of Star Wars fans who would be overjoyed to see and become a member of this site. I'm not Yoda so I can't solve every little riddle in an eyeblink but I would look at it half-full.
 * I won't vote for myself because I wanted to know if you think i'm ready, not me. [[User:Roron Corobb|<span
 * Editcount data can be found here: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/User:Editcount/editcount.js?username=Roron+Corobb
 * And might I add to both of the candidates that it would be a good idea for you to answer the questions above. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 02:45, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm abstaining. Nothing against you. You have a reasonable edit count, I just haven't had many dealings with you. Good luck. —Xwing328 (Talk) 18:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Here they are,
 * Because I feel I could use my powers wisely and be of a lot more help to other users.
 * To provide help to other users when needed and to help Wookieepedia in general with many different tasks.
 * In my view, both, because they are often looked up to by other users, and they have the technical abilities, such as blocking users and soforth.
 * They should use it fairly but and treat regular users the way they want to be treated, (the Golden Rule).
 * Forgive me but that is all that I will get to answering today. Humans need sleep too. I do plan on answering the rest tomorrow. [[User:Roron Corobb|<span
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 * Roron, as you answer the last few questions, I have two more specifically for you. You don't have to answer them if you don't want. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 16:24, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * A1 How, if at all, do you feel your young age (11 standard years) would affect your dealings with other users and your decision making ability? IMHO, most of our admins seem to be at least high school age, but more than likely beyond that.

style="color:orange;">Roron Corobb ]]  18:36, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Reply:Size Matters Not. :) [[User:Roron Corobb|Roron Corobb ]]  18:35, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Im still on just as much as I was in the summer on the weekends but I'm saying I won't be having 70 edits a day every single weekday. Im not gonna completely disappear, but I will try as much as I can to still get on. [[User:Roron Corobb|<span
 * Since when does someone's age limit their chance at becoming an administrator? Grand Admiral J. Nebulax (Imperial Holovision) [[Image:Implogo.jpg|20px]] 21:51, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Support

 * 1)  Yoshi  626 [[Image:Yoshiegg.jpg|20px]] 22:21, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) From what I've read, Mr. Nebulax seems to be quite polite user who would make a great admin. And he's got a good name too. Heh heh. Peace. Out. Moff Phoenix (Mofference) (Don't feed the trolls) [[Image:Era-njo.png|20px]] 22:35, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Rune Haako 22:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Rune Haako 22:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) Same reasons as before really...he keeps saying he's going to change, then gets into massive arguments and edit wars with users. There's been too many times recently that he's broken policies and has almost been banned. &mdash;Jaymach Ral'Tir (talk) 21:13, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Imp 21:17, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Kuralyov 23:03, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Netural/Comments

 * 1) Neutral for now. I can't really support from the reasons presented, but I don't really want to oppose either. G .He (Talk!) 22:29, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

He is a nice, polite user who edits wookieepedia non-stop. He deserves to be an admin.
 * Typical. Three strikes, I'm out. Grand Admiral J. Nebulax (Imperial Holovision) [[Image:Implogo.jpg|20px]] 21:18, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Imp and Kuralyov, would you both be so kind as to explain why you opposed? Grand Admiral J. Nebulax (Imperial Holovision) [[Image:Implogo.jpg|20px]] 23:09, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Is there a way to perhaps give him administrative powers provisionally, subject to revocation? I don't think anyone here can deny that he's one of our most prolific and capable editors, but he's also one of our most contentious; his brusque and headstrong attitude in talk pages and forums has alienated many a user. In the past, he has indicated he was committed to making changes, but I think he's become a bit cynical that we don't/won't recognize this and has given up. I would like to see if the motivation to keep his access to administrative tools, rather than acquire them in the first place, would be sufficient motivation for him to strive for that better attitude; because, if he can do that, then he WILL be an excellent admin. jSarek 23:15, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Listen, I've tried. But why am I being judged by these issues and not my better points? Grand Admiral J. Nebulax (Imperial Holovision) [[Image:Implogo.jpg|20px]] 23:20, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Because those issues are just as critical to being an admin as your better points. Admins not only have certain extra tools, but they often serve as the face of Wookieepedia; we're often the ones called upon by outside parties when an article is problematic, and a polite and professional attitude is necessary for those dealings.  Furthermore, many take those worse issues as being areas of potential abuse.  For instance, engagement in revert wars might make one wonder if you would use quick reversion and blocking to further your own agendas, and getting frustrated to the point of calling someone "asshole" in an edit summary might make one wonder if you'd get frustrated enough to ban someone unfairly.  jSarek 23:31, 2 December 2006 (UTC)