UDWiki:Administration/Promotions

From The Urban Dead Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
Administration Services

Sysop List (Check) | Guidelines | Policies (Discussion) | Promotions (Bureaucrat) | Re-Evaluations

Deletions (Scheduling) | Speedy Deletions | Undeletions | Vandal Banning (Bots) | Vandal Data (De-Escalations)

Protections (Scheduling) | Move Requests | Arbitration | Misconduct | Demotions | Discussion | Sysop Archives

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

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

Shortround

I originally wanted to wait for monday to put it up exactly 2 months since the original bid, but I'll have a night appointment on monday and probably won't get around to do any wikiing.

So, yeah, Shortround. For his own reasons to get promoted, just look up here and let me get on with my own words.

He has kept up his gnoming activity and has since also spreaded out to the opinion pages. The main complaint of him being too new should have been alleviated given the time that has passed since.

Furthermore, while it technically shouldn't influence sys-op promotions, our ability to get stuff done has become weak. Sys-op activity has heavily declined in the last few months, and even the more active ops don't get things done daily anymore. We are in dire need of bolstering our ranks with some new faces and people who are willing to carry some serious gnoming workload, and I think Shortround is by now ready for that. -- Spiderzed█ 18:15, 13 May 2012 (BST)

  • Vouch - See bid. -- Spiderzed█ 18:15, 13 May 2012 (BST)
  • Vouch --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ #nerftemplatedsigs 18:29, 13 May 2012 (BST)
  • Vouch - He still has some quirks, but those can be worked out, and I'm confident he'll be a good addition to the team. There's no doubt that his work has been great these last few months and that he's really sought to address the concerns that were voiced in his previous nomination. He also handled the previous rejection extremely well, which speaks well for him and his maturity. In fact, I was even considering putting him up for nomination myself, so I was glad to see that Spider had done so.
    Despite all my praise, I'm a tad concerned by his overeagerness for the position (i.e. something wrong in his head, as the saying goes) and would offer some minor suggestions. First, be careful that you don't let it go to your head. People who are overeager are oftentimes so because they see the position as a status symbol. Don't be that way. Second, you've been playing the role of crowd-pleaser for the last two months to reach this point, which is fine, but be careful that you don't play that role in your rulings. We need correct rulings, not popular ones. I doubt that either of these will actually ever be problems, but they're things I'd suggest you be aware of and take care to avoid anyway. —Aichon— 20:00, 13 May 2012 (BST)
  • Question. Do you accept the nomination? ~Vsig.png 21:18, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
  • Vouch another minion to do my bidding? excellent. and yes i agree with aichon, you must be sick in the head to want this job.--User:Sexualharrison23:34, 13 May 2012
  • Vouch - Like me 4 years ago, with cosmetic differences. (Maybe, I don't know. Could be not.) --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 00:28, 14 May 2012 (BST)

Karloth Vois

Make me (see pic) sysop because I'll ban stupids like Oblerst without indulging their wiki lawyering nonsense. Thanks!

Karl Current Face.jpg

Also I've been here for ages and totally know what I'm doing/ needs done etc etc. --Karloth Vois ¯\(°_o)/¯ 16:38, 3 May 2012 (BST)

edit: with not one against and every question satisfactorily answered I'd like to cordially accept the position --Karloth Vois ¯\(°_o)/¯ 22:53, 6 May 2012 (BST)

Recently Concluded Bids

For older concluded bids, see Promotion Candidacies.

Archived Promotions

Retrieved from "http://wiki.urbandead.com//index.php?title=UDWiki:Administration/Promotions&oldid=2001947"