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

Sexylegsread

This place needs some cleanin' up from a real elder statesmen. --CyberRead240 09:31, 7 September 2012 (BST)

• Against - You clearly don't meet requirements #2 and #3 and I'm surprised you would even bother to nominate yourself. What a waste of time...--Nallan (Talk) 09:48, 7 September 2012 (BST)

  what would you even know m8--CyberRead240 09:50, 7 September 2012 (BST)

• Question Why the socks? --I'm not the Ross UDWiki needs, I'm the Ross it deserves. 11:42, 7 September 2012 (BST)

  I like to leave something to the imagination. Why give it all away without having them work for it?--CyberRead240 04:55, 8 September 2012 (BST)

• Although you have no recent edits, I'm inclined to Vouch based on your strong history of insightful comments in the administrative section. Question - Do you believe in life after love?--Shortround }.{ My Contributions 12:44, 7 September 2012 (BST)

  That's a tricky one. I once loved. I was an English explorer and she was a native girl. Daughter of the village chief. We were on an expedition in Western Papua and, upon tripping on some jungle vine, I was assisted back to my feet by the most amazing woman I have ever encountered. Her eyes were as brown as the hue of her skin, and her nose flatter than the Sahara Desert. However, it was when I laid eyes on her sagging, bare breasts that I remembered a childhood furiously masturbating to my fathers copies of National Geographic Magazine. Suddenly all of my youthful exuberance returned, and I suddenly felt alive again. Later that night I made love to her in a teepee. "You are beautiful, my little coco pop", I said to her. She grunted in approval. Later that week I was shipped back to England and I waved my love goodbye from the shores of Port Moresby. I may not be with her anymore, but my love for her still burns like a raging forest fire. So, I do believe there is life after love, but only if you can hold onto it enough to keep it a part of you forever.--CyberRead240 04:55, 8 September 2012 (BST)

• Vouch - Only a man with guts like SexyLegs can clean up this place from being a pussfilled place for boring, whimpering mimsies, and turn it into the drama filled anger pool that it so deserves to be. D^ANCED^ANCER^EVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 13:38, 7 September 2012 (BST)

  Jed could also achieve this in a heartbeat but we all know what the current sysop cliche will think of that. D^ANCED^ANCER^EVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 13:40, 7 September 2012 (BST)

• Against, as Nallan. -- Johnny Twotoes 14:17, 7 September 2012 (BST)

  Careful, that's a dangerous road you're on there. —Aichon— 15:36, 7 September 2012 (BST)

• Question - If the current wiki sysops were in the Big Brother house, which one would you evict first? More importantly, what food would you throw at them as you kicked them out? —Aichon— 15:36, 7 September 2012 (BST)

  This is a stupid question and, frankly, I won't bother to answer it. --CyberRead240 04:55, 8 September 2012 (BST)

• Strong Vouch - I still need to sign up for .2 Cool. I miss those days. -- Thadeous Oakley Talk 16:29, 7 September 2012 (BST)
• Question - Where the fuck have you been? --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 18:38, 7 September 2012 (BST)

  Answer: Was I ever really gone? --CyberRead240 04:55, 8 September 2012 (BST)

• Question - How much spam would a spambot have bought if a spambot could have bought spam? -- Spiderzed█ 19:15, 7 September 2012 (BST)

  12--CyberRead240 04:55, 8 September 2012 (BST)

• Question - Where were you from January 2011 to August 2012? Bob Moncrief ^EBD•W! 21:31, 7 September 2012 (BST)

  I was very busy playing Angry Birds--CyberRead240 04:55, 8 September 2012 (BST)

• fuck off against --User:Sexualharrison04:59, 8 September 2012

  nah, you fuck off--CyberRead240 05:00, 8 September 2012 (BST)

Recently Concluded Bids

• Aichon was promoted to system operator.

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