Battlestar Wiki:Requests for adminship
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Requests for adminship (RfA) is the process by which this wiki's community decides who should be an administrator (or sysop). Administrators have access to a few technical features that help with maintenance. A user may submit his own request for adminship (a self-nomination) or may be nominated by another user.
About RfA
The community grants administrator status to trusted users who are familiar with Battlestar Wiki's policies. Admins are held to high standards, as they are often perceived as the "official face" of Battlestar Wiki. Admins 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. Almost all admin actions are reversible; being an admin is primarily an extra responsibility, as there are rules and policies that apply only to admins.
- Nomination standards
- There are no official prerequisites for adminship, 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 admins. The bureaucrats who handle admin promotions review the discussion to see if a consensus is present (the threshold for consensus here is roughly 75-80 percent support). Only bureaucrats may close or de-list a nomination as a definitive promotion or non-promotion. In the case of vandalism, improper formatting or a declined or withdrawn nomination, non-bureaucrats may choose to de-list a nomination but they are never empowered to decide on whether consensus has been achieved.
- In exceptional circumstances, bureaucrats 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:rfap}}-{{subst:rfab}} as a header and footer, respectively, when closing a successful nomination. Similarly, use {{subst:rfaf}}-{{subst:rfab}} for a failed nomination.
- How to nominate an editor for adminship
- To nominate either yourself or another user for adminship, 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, you should wait a while before voting. Otherwise, you may be mistaken for a sock puppet.
- Executive privilege
- Please note that in special, extenuating circumstances, Joe Beaudoin may exercise executive privilege and appoint a user to administrative status. (At the same time, should the issue arise, an administrator may have their privileges revoked by Joe Beaudoin for any reason.)
Current nominations
Add new requests at the top of this section.
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.
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- The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful request for adminship. Please do not modify it.
Day
Battlestar_Wiki:Requests_for_adminship/Day|action=edit}} Vote here (6/0/0) ending 23:57 26 January 2006 (EST)
Day (talk • contribs) Day is by now a veteran contributor, and I have greatly appreciated his tireless efforts to improve the wiki. He is intelligent, slow to anger, an excellent communicator, and a pleasure to work with. I believe that adminstrator powers would help him further his work here, and that he would exercise such powers prudently and responsibly. --April Arcus 22:51, 19 January 2006 (EST)
- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Er... Accept. *blush*
Support
- --April Arcus 22:48, 19 January 2006 (EST)
- --Ricimer 22:53, 19 January 2006 (EST)
- --Spencerian 00:14, 20 January 2006 (EST)
- --Support. Tireless, methodical, nit-picker that plays well with others. --Steelviper 08:42, 20 January 2006 (EST)
- -- Great with the new folks, very patient and diligent. I'd be glad to see this guy made an admin. Joemc72 08:47, 20 January 2006 (EST)
- --Watcher 23:01, 21 January 2006 (EST)
Oppose
Neutral
Comments
- Wow. I, ah, am flattered.
Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
- 1. What duties, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Project Pages for a list of projects.
- Well, there's Characters and Standards and Conventions, which I like working on. I also hope to help organize and contribute to an image-themed project which might be shaping up, if that get's going. I also like to see links to redirect pages eliminated and am willing to go through the "What links here" pages to make it happen.
- However, that's all stuff a normal user can do. I'm not sure, really, what I expect from admins on a Wiki, so I'm not quite sure I can say what I'd do with admin privelages/resposabilities. I've been, in the past, low level admin on a couple of MUSHes and by the time I got to that point, I had a pretty good idea of what I expected admins to do for me as a player and so I expected myself to do those things for others. Here, I guess that involves cleaning up stuff that needs deletion, identifying areas that need improvement (whether in added content or in organization) and drawing attention to those areas, and being able and available to mediate any disputes between users (including other admins).
- 2. Of your articles or contributions here, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
- On a less content-centered note, I've put a lot of thought and effort into the various coordinating projects around that give things a more unified feel. In particular, I'm rather proud of what we've accomplished over at Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions.
- 3. 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?
- Only one user has ever caused me stress. I wasn't alone in being stressed by him and I was kind of on the sidelines for that one. I think most reading this will know to whom I'm referring.
- That one incident aside, I had a bit of a difference of interpretation with April Arcus once. I wouldn't say it caused me stress, though. Explaining my POV to him and having him explain his to me was actually kind of fun and ended up enriching (in my opinion) the Sacred Scrolls article.
- Other places where I've had respobilities similar to what I imagine admins have here, I have been in some tight spots with people before, where I and/or another user/player has gotten upset. However, as far as I know, none of those episodes has ever ended with the other party feeling as if I'd treated them unfairly.
- Part of that is learning to recognize when it's happenning so that you can suggest a break in order for both parties to step back and take a break. On a Wiki that's aided by the nature of how we (mostly) communicate here: it's time-delayed. Remaining objective and logical is key in sorting out disagreements that may have a tendency to become emotionally charged.
- 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. ----