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Nubis

I'm pretty sure everyone is vaguely familiar with him (and me).

I'm coming forward to claim all of the work done on here. Someone should get credit for it.

• Categorizing over 8,000 images
• Caught up and kept the unused images down to all within the last month (as per policy)
• Adding categories and instructions to the templates while reorganizing them into listings by group name among other things.
• Unlinking several pages/location blocks
• Cleaning up all of the Disambiguation pages
• Cleaning up the orphans listings
• Introducing "Thank you for your input"
• Nubis would never abuse Check User. (Look at the logs. Nubis never really used it)

All the drama aside you have to realize that SOMEONE was using the Nubis account to actually do work with it. Even in the midst of Misconduct cases the boring little things were getting done (orphans/category/ etc.)

Nubis actually had a successful re-bid in February.

No one is sure if I am Nubis or if Nubis created me or if I hacked Nubis or what... But looking back over the body of work, I think one of us should get sysops.-- #99 ^DCC 16:26, 15 September 2009 (BST)

I would really like a sysop to comment on this point Nubis would never abuse Check User. (Look at the logs. Nubis never really used it) . You all keep saying this TRUSTED USER shit, but no one has said anything about Check User abuse. Even in the J3D case there were hints about what abuse he was doing even though it wasn't able to be posted directly. So, either Nubis was abusing information or wasn't.-- #99 ^DCC 10:05, 16 September 2009 (BST)

No one said anything about trusted checkuser, it's irrelevant. You claimed Nubis gave his account to you, then you claimed you hacked it, there is no way of telling who has access to the account and the situation regarding it. And you did this all by yourself, so stop screaming that it is us that is in the wrong here. Trusted User doesn't apply here as much as the term trusted account. We don't give a shit about your/Nubis' past contributions because it is still to be seen that the account is secure in any form. The last thing 95% of users give a shit about is checkuser, they care more about Nubis getting ops again and potentially having the capability to go on a spree and have masses of pages deleted and users banned for no reason, which is just what could happen if an unsecured account gained control of Sysop status. Now the truth of the account's access is out into the open there is no repercussion of Nubis' account going on such a spree. Don't say I'm a paranoid shit because "it wouldn't happen even if Nubis did regain sysop status"; I'm going to help make sure it can't. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 10:17, 16 September 2009 (BST)

• It's been two days since Nubis was demoted unanimously by the sysops because the account was insecure. There still is no proof as to what the situation is and we are still working on acting on the small facts we do have to move on from the ordeal. FYI, some of the points you've added to your resume are false, particularly the second one which I've been doing daily for about 6 months, and prior to that, was done primarily by Janus Abernathy and Link. As seen somewhere like here (I know I hate to bring it up, but) you've had fairly low contribution rate on the wiki in almost all of 2009, and I've always thought that you've made your achievements out to be a lot more spectacular than what they are in practice (note: just my opinion). The reason I am so against you doing this though, is that you have to be a trusted user, and I don't trust the Nubis account as far as I can throw her at the moment. My opinion is give it some months at leased before you nominate yourself or Nubis again, if at all. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 16:54, 15 September 2009 (BST)

  Your image is pretty and meaningless. What the hell do you mean by a low contribution rate? At most the longest gap with out an edit would be 5 - 7 days as far as I can tell, but I didn't pour through them. Maybe you have minor edits filtered out? It's happened before to other retarded users that thought there was a huge conspiracy that blocked them from seeing people's contributions. Your opinion is wrong like usual. Also, Janus can't delete images and we all know that Nubis has no problem doing it (and Cyberbob has been doing it, too, but no no I'm sure it is ALL YOU like you say.)-- #99 ^DCC 10:17, 16 September 2009 (BST)

  I stand mistaken as I thought you mean "Uncategorized" images rather than unused, which is something Cyberbob does not myself. But I still maintain my other points; by "low contribution rate" I mean, for example, when you and I were working on the disambiguation pages as mentioned on User:Nubis/WikiMe, you could see that in the time that you were supposed to be "unmerging" the locations, your contributions stayed in an exceedingly poor number compared to someone who was doing the job properly, ie. me. I haven't fine-combed your contribs in that time but it looked seemingly like you did half the job, but enough to claim it done when such a claim matters, hence the way I've always responded to your self-proclaimed "only grunt worker in this sorry hole" image with contempt. All of this is irrelevant though. You want yourself to be promoted? Put yourself up. Nubis' account is insecure and you or Nubis have made no effort to prove to us otherwise. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 10:38, 16 September 2009 (BST)

  You do realize that Nubis was unmerging the pages and cleaning up the disambigs and then you joined in while you were begging for anything to do to look like sysop material right? That's why Nubis "slacked" off to see if you would actually do the grunt work (which was reflected in his Vouch)) when back then honestly you were pretty much seen as a fuck off trying to squeeze pass. But in 2 months time you seemed to have convinced people you weren't such a prick anymore. Good on you! -- #99 ^DCC 23:00, 16 September 2009 (BST)

  Funny how when he was "unmerging and cleaning the disambigs" his contributions showed he was no more active than when he was "not cleaning them up for my sake", so you've just proved my point. Just admit that the account isn't secure enough to warrant any sort of promotion. Fighting me over other trivial, grey bullshit isn't doing anything. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 02:19, 17 September 2009 (BST)

  Stop being an ass and think about this for a moment. Part of unlinking/unmerging and cleaning up disambigs is CHECKING every link. You don't have to EDIT every time you check a link. So, it's still a lot of work following each link to make sure it is correct. The activity that is on there shows that the links in between were checked and since Nubis never used a bot and was going through the links one at a time. The mere fact that Nubis went through and edited old new archives that were "wrong" and probably not even accessed since the day they were created shows that Nubis was actually working. You can't rely purely on the number of edits in something like that.-- #99 ^DCC 14:10, 20 September 2009 (BST)

• Strongly Against - As DDR. --Bob Boberton ^{TF / DW} 20:55, 15 September 2009 (BST)
• Do You Think We're Retarded? -- Probably not; I know quite a few people with learning difficulties who wouldn't even be phased by something this dumb. Neither DCC or Nubis is a trusted user, or are ever likely to become one. Lelouch vi Britannia is helping make Ridleybank green_ and gives Achievements 22:41, 15 September 2009 (BST)
• I saw what u did thar. No thanks, goon. --Haliman - Talk 23:43, 15 September 2009 (BST)
• Absurdly Strong Against What an idiotic proposal in the light of recent events :/ WOOT's spam self-promotions were of better quality then this.--Thadeous Oakley 23:45, 15 September 2009 (BST)
• Yer funneh. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 00:01, 16 September 2009 (BST)
• Snowball's chance, but still no - "Nubis" was a good sysop, but those days have ended.--SirArgo ^Talk 00:07, 16 September 2009 (BST)
• Against only on the whole trust issue you understand.... I mean, you obviously know what you are doing and could probably do a decent job of most sysop tasks. --Honestmistake 00:38, 16 September 2009 (BST)
• Against - I never really liked some of "Nubis's" conduct (too hot-headed) anyway, although I would probably still vouch for him if I could trust the account was secure. Linkthewindow  Talk  08:07, 16 September 2009 (BST)
• Against - Sysop powers are only necessary for the unused images thing. You can keep on doing all the other good work without the powers (preferably on your own account). --Midianian 10:33, 16 September 2009 (BST)
• Against - Wow gross. Why do people have such a hard time sticking to only one ego? Blech, you should "both" get kicked to the curb.--_GANG Giles Sednik _CAPD 10:40, 16 September 2009 (BST)
• Abstain - who gyves a shyt lol? Cyberbob  Talk  10:50, 16 September 2009 (BST)
• Against - Can't be trusted.--^TCAPD(╯°□°)╯ ┻━┻ 23:09, 16 September 2009 (BST)
• Against who?--THE Godfather of Яesensitized, Anime Sucks ^{Yalk | W! U! WMM| CC CPFOAS LOE ZHU | Яezzens} 01:23, 17 September 2009 (BST)
• Against --Karek^maps?! 13:33, 17 September 2009 (BST)

  Karek, I was the one that wrote that really nice thing about you on Nubis' talk page about how you became the "golden boy" of the sysops and how you were the "Hunter". Even though we don't agree, I still have a wiki crush on you. -- #99 ^DCC 18:03, 18 September 2009 (BST)

  I appreciate it and I agree with the idea of the vote just don't think it's a good time for it. I did take considerable time considering whether to be against and what comment would be appropriate. I'm still toying with ideas in this vein very seriously, there's certainly a very viable argument for at least paying some consideration to the option. --Karek^maps?! 00:24, 19 September 2009 (BST)

  I think my main point in all of this (the bid) was to say that regardless of "who" was in control of the account it still did it's duty as a sysop. Now, it wasn't always a "popular" sysop, but at least the "duties" of the account were taken seriously. The maintenance of the wiki was important (and at times frustrating) to Nubis.-- #99 ^DCC 14:10, 20 September 2009 (BST)

• Against - How can we be sure (as the community) that it's the original Nubis that will be doing the editing? No, the account is compromised (I am assuming that the sysops did enough of a backtrace to validate that DCC's access claims are at least somewhat valid) so if Nubis wants the position back, he should start a new account and work his way back up through good-works, etc.-Wulfenbach 21:05, 18 September 2009 (BST)

Coming to think of it, that's how DCC would improve his image as well. Want to try it as a test case, DCC?-Wulfenbach 21:05, 18 September 2009 (BST)

• Lol. -- Cheese 23:07, 18 September 2009 (BST)

  I'd use one of my other alt accounts if the desire to make sysop ever really became overwhelming. Also, if Nubis and DCC don't have any vandalism charges (well, rampant vandalism, not good old Nubis' lack of playing well with others) during the period in question I hardly see what the issue is.-- #99 ^DCC 14:10, 20 September 2009 (BST)

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Withdrawn and archived -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 15:07 17 September 2009 (BST)

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