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

hagnat

hey there, it's me again :D Many already know my past work as a user and as a sysop here in the wiki, so i will skip this part. I have found myself time and space to spare with urbandead again - i can has new house, job and gf - so i would like to run around with the cool buttons again. Some might argue that it's a little early, that i haven't meet the 500 edits in the past six months asked in the promotion criteria, but i'd like to remind that "If a user is highly exemplary in one criterion, a certain amount of leeway may be given with the other criteria." and that i *am* highly exemplary in the other three criterions :P --hagnat 17:52, 9 June 2011 (BST)

• vouch - he meets my criteria of telling me all his adventures with young, hot Brazilian women... oh and he does good wiki stuff too--THE Godfather of Яesensitized, Anime Sucks ^{Yalk | W! U! WMM| CC CPFOAS LOE ZHU | Яezzens} 17:57, 9 June 2011 (BST)
• Against - Tosser. --Papa Moloch 18:33, 9 June 2011 (BST)
• Vouch - Hagnat is more active now, and very few wiki users actually fulfil the 500 edits criterion (most of the current sysops don't). I like hagnat; he's a fun guy and he actually does care about the wiki.--Yonnua Koponen ^{T G P} ^^^ 18:37, 9 June 2011 (BST)
• Vouch - Trustworthy; knows his way around the wiki and he's been around here about as long as I have.--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 19:24, 9 June 2011 (BST)
• Against - I can't condone the oppage of someone who doesn't understand basic capitalization. Additionally, I refuse to vouch for someone who uses "I can has" unironically and/or in a personal statement.--Deadman Walken 20:04, 9 June 2011 (BST)

  You shall be the first to be destroyed when hagnat rises to glory.--Yonnua Koponen ^{T G P} ^^^ 20:34, 9 June 2011 (BST)

  He just reminds me of Sir Ron Lionheart is all. I can't take a man like that seriously--Deadman Walken 20:41, 9 June 2011 (BST)

  i can has an irish accent when i speak in english... its hilarious --hagnat 20:58, 9 June 2011 (BST)

• <hagnat> seriously, you have to be wrong in the head to accept becomming a UDwiki sysop ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾᚨᚾᛏ 20:25, 9 June 2011 (BST)

  as you can see, i am fully qualified for the job --hagnat 20:36, 9 June 2011 (BST)

• Question In which of the areas that you've contributed in in the last six months did you miss the buttons, and why? -- Spiderzed█ 20:45, 9 June 2011 (BST)

  ban hammering bots, deleting useless pages, moving shit around. --hagnat 20:49, 9 June 2011 (BST)

• Vouch - Hagnat knows what he is doing, has been a sysop before, has shown to be trustworthy, and is willing to accept compromises in order to solve problems. I see no problem with him being re-promoted. --Akule ^{Maker of fine, hand-crafted UDWiki sass since 2006 -- Akule School's back in session™} 21:34, 9 June 2011 (BST)
• Vouch - did a decent enough job last time --Honestmistake 07:56, 10 June 2011 (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