UDWiki:Administration/Sysop Archives/Pestolence/2009-05-12 Promotion

Administration » Sysop Archives » Pestolence » 2009-05-12 Promotion

This page is an archive of Pestolence's Promotions candidacy, which was unsuccessful. If you wish to speak with this candidate, please use their Talk page.

Pestolence

I've been around the wiki for seven months, since November 2008, and I have made almost 1,000 edits in that time. Among my more helpful work on the wiki has been joining Project Wiki Patrol, giving new users advice or help when they need it, and voting/commenting on the various administration pages. Recently, I have started an attempt to remove merged location pages (example: Dakerstown Hotels) from the wiki and replace them with individual location pages.

I would like to become a sysop for several reasons, primarily because the ability to delete pages will significantly speed up the removal of merged pages from the wiki, and because it will allow me to carry out routine tasks such as speedy deletion, page moving, and page protecting when I see that it needs to be done. I would not restrict my sysop activity to those pages specifically, but the majority of my activity would happen there.

If anyone needs more information to make up their mind on my bid, I invite you to look back through my user contributions, as well as this page which contains most of the major projects I've worked on, and my sandbox page, which includes my work on merged location pages. Anyone who would like to question me further about anything is welcome to do so, here or on my talk page. --Pestolence^(talk) 01:19, 12 May 2009 (BST)

• Hesitant Vouch You realize that you still have to go through deletion requests as a sysop right? And Speedy's still require someone other than you... Conndraka^{mod TAZM CFT} 01:35, 12 May 2009 (BST)

  Yes, I realize that, and I will go through all the proper channels for deletions. --Pestolence^(talk) 02:12, 12 May 2009 (BST)

• Weak Vouch - As above. Needs more drama. --Haliman - Talk 01:39, 12 May 2009 (BST)
• Weak Against - At the moment, I can't vouch you. Your heart's in the right place and you're definitely doing the right stuff (the behind-the-scenes maintenance is the hardest in my experience), but I would have wanted to see a months more work from you (and more so in A/VB) before I could vouch. Plus, I didn't appreciate the brain explosion you had last month. D^ANCED^ANCER^EVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 03:13, 12 May 2009 (BST)

  Moving along a Very Weak Vouch after checking out your contributions. I still stand by the worries that I said earlier though. D^ANCED^ANCER^EVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 08:12, 12 May 2009 (BST)

• Against - I think you have done a lot to help out around the wiki but I feel you do need some more experience before you become a sysop. Just keep doing what you're doing now and branch out into areas such as Policy Discussion, etc and come back in a month or two. =) -- Cheese 08:47, 12 May 2009 (BST)
• Against - Retard. --Cyberbob 08:50, 12 May 2009 (BST)

  :( Bureaucrats: please consider the source of this comment when evaluating my bid. --Pestolence^(talk) 20:06, 12 May 2009 (BST)

  Good thing I'm not a retard. That could've been embarrassing. --Cyberbob 04:55, 13 May 2009 (BST)

• Weak against - I'm not so sure about you. Haven't seen you that much around.--Thadeous Oakley 10:10, 12 May 2009 (BST)

  I provided some links in my bid if you want to see what I've done lately. --Pestolence^(talk) 19:59, 12 May 2009 (BST)

• Vouch Pestolence is a contributer definately heading in the right direction. I'm not sure if the current bid will be successful, but if he carries on with the enormous amount of maintenence he currently does, I don't believe it will be too long before he gets his mop. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 13:58, 12 May 2009 (BST)

  hahaha it's always hilarious to see how people up for promotion suddenly pull out the ultra-mature card when voting on other people's bids --Cyberbob 16:08, 12 May 2009 (BST)

  Thanks bob. And to think only one section above you called me not funny. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 16:26, 12 May 2009 (BST)

• Vouch Last months brainfart aside I think you would do a pretty decent job of this and if not, what I said in DDR's bid above will hold true and the rest of the Sysops can crush you :) --Honestmistake 17:26, 12 May 2009 (BST)
• Vouch He'd be good for it. --Johnny Bass 17:32, 12 May 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - Brain explosions are good. You're a psychopath after all, amirite? :P But seriously, good contributions. --Janus ^talk 21:15, 12 May 2009 (BST)
• Against --WanYao 22:05, 12 May 2009 (BST)
• Abstain - I would provide a reason, but I think these few lines from an old epsiode of Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged says it better: Yami - "Alright. But who are you?" Bakura - "I'm Bakura." Yami - "Never heard of you." --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} (status:‎Mudkip!) 00:49, 13 May 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - Easy to get along with, and a person who is open to discussion would be a great addition to the Sysop team. Always nice to have a clean wiki too. -- T^HEL^ORDG^UNS^LINGER 02:31, 13 May 2009 (BST)
• Meh - Which I guess is an abstain. But it's a strong Meh. --– Nubis ^NWO 10:32, 13 May 2009 (BST)

  What? A strong abstain... ok then. --Pestolence^(talk) 12:23, 13 May 2009 (BST)

• against who the fuck are you?... yeah i know it's been said before. but it really works well.----Sexualharrison 21:52, 13 May 2009 (BST)

  I could say the same to you, seeing as how you've only made 10 edits since February. I've been around; seems like you're the one who hasn't. --Pestolence^(talk) 21:57, 13 May 2009 (BST)

  But to answer your question, I became active only in the last few months, when you weren't around. I don't know if you were actually looking for an answer, but I gave it anyway. Stay classy, --Pestolence^(talk) 22:23, 13 May 2009 (BST)

  I don't suppose that will influence your input in any way, will it? --Pestolence^(talk) 00:10, 14 May 2009 (BST)

  excuse me for sometimes having a life.. Also I'm not the one who is up for a sysop. so the amount of my edits is meaningless. and yes this does effect my vote. now i dislike you even MOAR! haha.. no really. from the little i've now looked up on you. (nothing really) and from your vouch votes from some of the people I like on this wiki. is a pretty good sign your not a total douchebag but still I've never heard of you until today. get some more time in and get on the radar.. twist bobs nipples. tell izzy to shut the fuck up.. you know fun stuff. my vote stands. and i can't belive i'm agreeing with whats his face.. NEEDS MORE DRAMA----Sexualharrison 01:32, 14 May 2009 (BST)

  Fair enough. --Pestolence^(talk) 02:40, 14 May 2009 (BST)

• 2/3 Varch 1/3 Other - A HARD MEH. No really, It's a varch. _■^■ 02:48, 14 May 2009 (BST)
• Abstain - Have never heard of this person before. --Pyrranha 18:42, 14 May 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - i trust pestolence not to fuck with sysop powers. --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[talk] [wcdz]} 21:31, 16 May 2009 (BST)
• Question: Would your promotion result in you dedicating more time to this wiki? - User:Whitehouse 23:42, 16 May 2009 (BST)

  If I was promoted, then yes, I would spend more time on the wiki. --Pestolence^(talk) 14:58, 17 May 2009 (BST)

  Hopefully that will mean that you'll have time for non-sysop stuff too. Vouch. - User:Whitehouse 22:26, 17 May 2009 (BST)

• Question: Will you put gold in the basket?-- Adward  14:06, 17 May 2009 (BST)

  Of course! --Pestolence^(talk) 14:58, 17 May 2009 (BST)

  Hamters are worth moar.--Mr. Angel, Help needed? 01:27, 18 May 2009 (BST)

  Hamters? _{and keep the mudkips off my promotion bid} --Pestolence^(talk) 01:32, 18 May 2009 (BST)

  Vouch Provided the gold stays in the basket, and he carries on how he has been.-- Adward  22:01, 18 May 2009 (BST)

	Hamters in the Basket Supporter
	This user believes that if Pestolence does in fact put the hamters in the basket that this situation can be resolved.

--Mr. Angel, Help needed? 02:33, 18 May 2009 (BST)

• Okay then. *puts hamters in basket* --Pestolence^(talk) 12:06, 18 May 2009 (BST)

• against reason, total faggot--CyberRead240 12:43, 18 May 2009 (BST)

  Thank you for your input. --Pestolence^(talk) 19:53, 18 May 2009 (BST)

• He usually makes good edits, although I do wonder WTF this incident was all about. p.s. I survived :P -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 10:37 19 May 2009 (BST)

  I always knew you were immortal. D^ANCED^ANCER^EVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 16:21, 19 May 2009 (BST)

Sorry Pest, but this is a tad too soon :(. You've done some great work in more general areas of the wiki (and the help is as, always, appreciated,) but this is a tad too soon. You'll make a good sysop (IMO, of course,) just give it a few months. Linkthewindow  Talk  07:58, 27 May 2009 (BST)