Battlestar Wiki:Requests for bureaucratship

This page is an official policy of Battlestar Wiki. This policy is considered by the community and its leadership to be the status quo of Battlestar Wiki and is not to be countermanded or ignored, though changes to it can be discussed on the appropriate talk page. This policy was implemented on 5 January 2007.

Requests for bureaucratship (Rfb) is the process by which this wiki's community decides who should be a Bureaucrat (B-Crat). B-Crat have access to changing usernames, changing one "user rights", and resolving a dispute.

About RfB

The community grants bureaucratship status to trusted users who are familiar with Battlestar Wiki's policies. B-Crat held to high standards, as they are often perceived as the "official face" of Battlestar Wiki. B-Crat should be courteous and should exercise good judgment and patience in dealing with others. Nominees should have been with Battlestar Wiki long enough for people to see whether they have these qualities. However, they do not need to be a sysop to be nominated to an B-Crat.

Nomination standards

There are no official prerequisites for B-Cratness, other than a basic level of trust from other editors. However, some users set a variety of standards on a personal basis. You may nominate yourself. Some people apply higher standards to self-nominations, while others view them more favorably as showing initiative and desire to serve the community.

Nomination process

Any user in good standing may nominate any other user. Nominations remain for seven days from the time the nomination is posted on this page, during which time interested users register their opinions or make comments. At the end of that period, candidates who receive consensus supported will be made B-Crat. Head Wikipedian for Battlestar Wiki, Joe Beaudoin Jr., has the final say.

In exceptional circumstances, Joe Beaudoin may extend the deadline or call for a revote if this will make the consensus more clear. If your nomination fails, please wait a reasonable period of time – at least a month – before nominating yourself again or accepting another nomination.

Bureaucrats, please use {{subst:rfbp}}-{{subst:rfbb}} as a header and footer, respectively, when closing a successful nomination. Similarly, use {{subst:rfbf}}-{{subst:rfbb}} for a failed nomination.

How to nominate an editor for B-Crat

To nominate either yourself or another user for B-Crat, follow the instructions on this page.

Voting and commenting

Any Wikipedian with an account is welcome to vote, including the nominator (however, because the focus is on whether other people in the community trust the user, self-nominating candidates or nominees should not vote for themselves). To add your vote, click the "Vote here" link for the relevant candidate. You may then indicate whether you support or oppose the nomination by signing your name under the relevant heading.

Please include a short explanation of your reasoning, particularly when opposing a nomination. Remember that we are all people with feelings, emotions and pride: please respect others in your comments and responses.

Neutral votes are also permitted, but not necessarily counted in determining percentages, although they will be considered by bureaucrats in borderline cases. Discussions should be held in the Comments section. Long discussions should be held on the discussion page of the individual nomination.

If you are new to Battlestar Wiki, it is believed that new users may not fully understand the nuances or job responsibilities of an B-Crat. Therefore, while new users are encouraged to comment on RFBs, they may not vote. Should they vote, their votes will not be counted. A new user, as defined by this RFB process, is a user who has joined the wiki. A user is no longer "new" after a period of a 30 days. It should be made exceptionally clear that this is not an effort to disenfranchise voters, but to ensure that voters know the duties and responsibilities of an B-Crat and to vote accordingly based not on superficial criteria but on the actions of the potential B-Crat.

Executive privilege

Please note that in special, extenuating circumstances, Joe Beaudoin may exercise executive privilege and appoint a user to B-Crat status. (At the same time, should the issue arise, an B-Crat may have their privileges revoked by Joe Beaudoin for any reason.)

Current nominations

Nominations must be accepted by the user in question. If you nominate a user, leave a message on their talk page and ask them to reply here if they accept the nomination.

Please remember to update the vote-tallies in the headers when voting.

Current time is 10:34, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful request for bureaucratship. Please do not modify it.

Spencerian

• Vote here
• Back to RFB.

Votes

• Current Count: (7/0/0)
• Current Date/Time: Sunday, December 22, 2024 at 10:34 (UTC)
• RFB Ending: Friday, January 12, 2007 at 12:00 (UTC)

Spencerian (talk • contribs • edit count • page moves • block user • block log) – Spencerian always manages, like myself, to get involved with everything so why not take it one further. While creating these pages and templates just to nominate Spencerian, I was reading Wikipedia:Successful bureaucratship candidacies, a few words popup from the pages of previous nominations.

• impartial
• respectful
• trustworthy
• diligent

And so on. Usually on Wikipedia most of the RFBs are self-nominations because the only real power they have is changing user rights. Here was having separate nominations process for BW:MOVE and the sort. So without further ado, here is Spencerian. "Take the Blue Pill, stay as Sysop. Take the Red Pill, and I show you how far you can go." Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 12:45, 5 January 2007 (CST)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I accept the nomination. --Spencerian 16:24, 5 January 2007 (CST)

Support

1. Support as nom. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 16:56, 5 January 2007 (CST)
2. Support Full support again. Already a highly skilled member of the sysop team, Spence would be excellent in this higher role. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 19:05, 6 January 2007 (CST)
3. Support It's all been said. --FrankieG 22:00, 6 January 2007 (CST)
4. Support Full support for reasons above. --Talos 22:37, 6 January 2007 (CST)
5. Support Sysops should be issued a wristband with WWSD on it upon "promotion". (What would Spencerian do?) A model contributor who helps the wiki and everyone around him, just being who he is. While, to be honest, I cannot think of any current sysop that I wouldn't trust with B-crat powers (and I hope that our selection of future sysops continues to yield such quality individuals), if I could only choose one current sysop to have B-crat powers added it would be Spencerian. --Steelviper 07:21, 8 January 2007 (CST)
6. Support All I wished to say has been said by others. --BklynBruzer 10:42, 8 January 2007 (CST)
7. Support An excellent candidate from all that I've seen. He took time to thank me for minor edits that most would have just ignored. (Thanks Shane, and Steelviper, as well) ... I second everything Shane has said above in the initial nomination. JubalHarshaw 23:12, 12 January 2007 (CST)
8. Support - 5, 4, 3, 2 - Jump! MatthewFenton 06:59, 13 January 2007 (CST)

Oppose

Neutral

Questions for the candidate

1. Have you read the discussions on when to promote and not promote? What do you understand the criteria for promotion to be?

A. I have. Generally, promotion is based on a contributor's demeanor, edit quality, neutrality and length of time contributing. In looking over our current admin field, two were given the privilege by executive decision (April Arcus, and myself), while all others have demonstrated their qualifications by the RFA process. Battlestar Wikipedians also note exemplary abilities as a criteria, but generally, being a well-rounded "nice guy" that edits well, knows and adheres to policy while helping others do so nicely can make for a good administrator, eventually. In rare instances, off-wiki behavior may be a factor in a successful nomination (Lords know I don't want to be part of something like that if possible).

2. How would you deal with contentious nominations where a decision to promote or not promote might be criticized?

A. The good news for an RfA nominee is that they can be nominated later if they are initially unsuccessful. RfAs are not for bashing anyone, nominee, nominator, or contributors. As a bureaucrat, I would take my time to parse through the supporting and opposing comments, even extending the nomination time if necessary to ensure that the contributor has a fair shot (for instance, if too few qualifying votes are submitted).

3. Battlestar Wiki expect Bureaucrats to adhere to high standards of fairness, knowledge of policy and the ability to engage others in the community. Why do you feel you meet those standards?

A. It helped to be one of the early contributors to the wiki, starting in July 2005. In that time, the wiki has grown in gargantuan leaps and bounds. I've helped in my share of writing the policies and standards since I arrived, so I'm as familiar with them as any other administrator, I believe. I do take a special humorous conceit in taking certain policies from Standards and Conventions to heart: it's just not fun to have to change every instance of "the Galactica to just Galactica.

4. If you become a bureaucrat, will you pledge not to discuss promotion or non-promotion of potential admins on any other forum during the course of nominations and especially when making a decision? And to discuss issues of promotion or non-promotion only with other bureaucrats, in their talk, where such discussion would be transparent?

A. I will. Any other course of action denotes favoritism or some form of cronyism, which doesn't make it any easier for the legitimate challengers to the esteemed rank of Mop Boys any easier.

5. Do you have the time and do you have the desire to visit BW:RFA on a regular basis to see to the promotion or delisting of candidates in a timely manner?

A. I do. It's a strange thing (although I think I also do this to watch for spammer vandals) but I try to remember where, when and what a new contributor begins with on the wiki. I never stop appreciating how I'm surprised in seeing a new contributor's zeal (Shane and Steelviper come to mind) and how their work ultimately makes a positive change to the face of the wiki. Without trying to "kiss up," to me, all contributors are RfA candidates that haven't been nominated yet.

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page. No further edits should be made to this page.

Archived requests

• Battlestar Wiki:Requests for bureaucratship/Successful requests
• Battlestar Wiki:Requests for bureaucratship/Unsuccessful requests

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