UDWiki:Administration/Promotions

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This page is for users to request System Operator status. The act of user promotion is restricted to those with bureaucrat status, and as such users will need to request user promotion here. System Operators and Bureaucrats cannot assign promotions unless the request has gone through this page.

Guidelines for System Operator Requests

Users who wish to request System Operator status (and users who wish to nominate other users for System Operator status) should note that before they can be considered the following guidelines should be met by the candidate:

• Significant time within the community.

We define this as at least 6 months since the candidate's first edit.

Note: looking in a User's User contributions might give false results for this criterion, as the edit history is periodically purged on this wiki.

• Significant activity within the community.

We define this as at least 250 edits in the past six months under the candidate's name.

Note: looking in a User's User contributions might give false results for this criterion, as the edit history is periodically purged on this wiki.

• Prior interest in maintaining the community.

We define this as clear evidence that the candidate is already performing maintenance tasks and taking leadership roles on the wiki.

• Desire to become a System Operator.

We define this simply as indicating in the candidate's request their desire for the position (Note that if a person is nominated by another user, the candidate in question should note their acceptance of the nomination).

If a user is highly exemplary in one criterion, a certain amount of leeway may be given with the other criteria.

Once the candidate satisfies these guidelines, the user is then subject to a community discussion. All users are asked to comment on the candidate in question, ask questions of the candidate, and discuss the candidate's suitability for becoming a System Operator. This is not a vote. It is instead merely a request for comments from the wiki community. This will continue for two weeks to allow all users an opportunity to voice their opinion regarding a candidate's qualifications for promotion. After two weeks, the Bureaucrats are responsible for announcing their decision within a reasonably short period of time. Users may continue to add their thoughts until the Bureaucrats announce their decision. The current amount of System Operators running should not influence your decisions when voicing your opinion.

Once the two weeks are up, the Bureaucrats will review the community discussion and make a decision based upon it. The user will be notified of the status of their request, and will be promoted should it appear that the community is willing to accept them as a System Operator.

Example Application

Example User

• Example User (talk | contribs | UDWiki contribs | vndl data)

I've been around 3 months, and I've made to date 550 edits. As you can see [link here] and [link here], I've been in the leadership role attempting to create a new format for this page. I'd very much like to become a System Operator.

• Vouch - I am willing to vouch for this user. -- Voucher 03:41, 23 Jan 2006 (GMT)
• Against - Example User, I haven't seen any evidence of your work on the wiki. --Some user 19:01, 25 July 2006 (BST)
• Vouch - Example User is the most active guy here. --Another user 19:01, 25 July 2006 (BST)
• Abstain - I'm just not sure, but I don't want to say why for some reason. --Some other user 19:01, 25 July 2006 (BST)
• Question - I just want to know what you think about this subject? --Yet another user 21:26, 4 April 2013 (BST)

Candidates Currently Under Community Discussion

User:Aichon

• Aichon (talk | contribs | UDWiki contribs | vndl data)

Aichon said:

<Gordon> Any wiki ops online? %AnimeSucks pokes YukiOnna, Aichon? <Gordon> Zombieman is vandalising, I really can't be bothered manually reverting it all again when a sysop can do it in two secs. <@Aichon> hmm? I'm not a sysop, I'm afraid <Gordon> Aww pants <Gordon> Run so I can immediately vote for you. <%AnimeSucks> why you got ops here if yer not a sysop? <Gordon> Vapor is busy trying to revert everthing, watching recent changes is almost amusing. :) <@Aichon> lol, well, I'd accept a nomination probably, but I'm not nominating myself

Plus I'm sure there's other reasons... need more people around with banhammers.--THE Godfather of Яesensitized, Anime Sucks ^{Yalk | W! U! WMM| CC CPFOAS LOE ZHU | Яezzens} 00:58, 10 August 2012 (BST)

Just to make it official, I accept the nomination. Hopefully most of you are familiar with me by now. I served a term as sysop in 2010, then stepped down at the end of my term. I took off for most of 2011 since real life kept me busy, but real life eased up a few months back once I finished with grad school, so I returned to the game and the wiki and have slowly been returning to activity. If anyone has any questions for me, you all know the routine. —Aichon— 01:14, 10 August 2012 (BST)

• Vouch - --THE Godfather of Яesensitized, Anime Sucks ^{Yalk | W! U! WMM| CC CPFOAS LOE ZHU | Яezzens} 00:58, 10 August 2012 (BST)
• Vouch - Was about to do this myself. Gordon 01:00, 10 August 2012 (BST)
• Vouch - You stepped in it now. Aichon for prez. ~ _{01:03, 10 August 2012 (UTC)}
• Vouch - Another SysOp active at precisely this moment is plus. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 01:43, 10 August 2012 (BST)

Recently Concluded Bids

For older concluded bids, see Promotion Candidacies.

Archived Promotions

• Complete list of Promotion Requests
• Successful Promotions Candidacies
• Unsuccessful Promotions Candidacies
• Unaccepted Nominations
• Withdrawn Promotions Candidacies