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

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

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)

  Viva la Hagnat!--Yonnua Koponen ^{T G P} ^^^ 09:20, 10 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)

  North or south? 05:05, 11 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)

  So, essentially, we would gain another op who does nothing but to shuffle paper and handle the menial op tasks as A/VB/B or A/SD. Not that that is inherently bad (we can always use people dealing with the mind-numbing stuff), but from an op candidate, I expect a bit of more than that. And I expect to be an extension of janitorial work done as a regular user, rather than the be-all and end-all of their wiki activity. For now, I have to be Against that bid.
  PS: In the meantime, if you look for a badly neglected gnome project that can be handled with regular buttons and help you to raise your profile, look here. The original maintainer Axe Hack has had network troubles for quite some time, and I have only half-heartedly kept it up (and won't have much time for it the next few weeks due to work). -- Spiderzed█ 20:32, 11 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)
• Abstain - If he goes renegade and have strange moments again we'll be on his arse faster than Grim on a noob :D -- ϑ^anceϑ^anceℜ^evolution 09:35, 10 June 2011 (BST)

  Against as per persuasive notes made by Aichon, as usual, and Riseabove. I'm for bringing back old users but seriously, he really doesn't do anything. otherwise I mimic Aichon. -- ϑ^anceϑ^anceℜ^evolution 03:58, 11 June 2011 (BST)

• Vouch - Tosser.--_GANG Giles Sednik _CAPD 10:26, 10 June 2011 (BST)
• Vouch - schmuck ---User:Sexualharrison12:13, 10 June 2011 (bst)
• Vouch - Don't really know the guy, and the whole job and gf thing kinda throws me off, but if he's insane like 90% of UDers, he'll fit right in! Why not? --Akbar 23:34, 10 June 2011 (BST)
• Against - At least for now. Looking through your contribs, you asked for your entire userspace to be deleted just a few months back, which doesn't speak well to your commitment, and you were Warned for spamming admin pages, which indicates you consider it a joke (iz srs bzns!). Both of those are forgivable, but about a third of your janitorial work for the last six months came from a one day categorization spree you went on last week. I'd like to see a bit more consistency and sustained activity before vouching, especially since your contribs also indicate that you're regularly inactive for a week or more at a time (eight times since the start of the year, in fact). You're a good guy, and a lot of your recent activity is excellent work, but I'd like to see more of it before trusting you with the admin pages and buttons. —Aichon— 00:27, 11 June 2011 (BST)
• Vouch more Tea Parties in Ridleybank --Karloth Vois ^¯\(°_o)/¯ 01:11, 11 June 2011 (BST)
• Against Not so much for what he may or may not have done, but because this wiki has way too many fucking sysops as is. Trim some of the dead weight like The General and MisterGame and then maybe start promoting people who can actually do the fucking job right. --||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 01:32, 11 June 2011 (BST)

  From the top: The current amount of System Operators running should not influence your decisions when voicing your opinion. —Aichon— 02:26, 11 June 2011 (BST)

And? --||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 03:19, 11 June 2011 (BST)

It weakens the argument. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 03:42, 11 June 2011 (BST)

As AHLG said. And since this isn't a vote, the 'crats aren't just counting the vouch and against statements, but are rather looking to see why the candidate does or doesn't have support. If you say Against for a reason that the top of the page effectively says isn't valid, then your Against statement carries virtually no weight. I figured you would like to know something like that. —Aichon— 04:09, 11 June 2011 (BST)

And I figured you'd like to go fuck yourself. When the fuck did "should not" turn into "does not"? Hell, since we're going for quantity over quality why not make everyone a fucking sysop? After all, apparently there's no such thing as too many anymore. --||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 05:27, 11 June 2011 (BST)

You do realize you're arguing with someone who also voiced an Against, right? And that I was pointing it out so that you'd have the opportunity to add some more weight to your opinion? I actually do agree that there is a point where adding more sysops is counterproductive. What I was pointing out is that it won't be given much credence as an argument, but, as you said, the wording is "should not", which means you are still more than welcome to voice that opinion anyway, regardless of the weight it might be afforded. And hey, I can see why you might be confused and "figured" I'd want to do that to myself. As a troll, I'd expect no less of a response from you after we've only just met and you've only had time to make snap judgements of me. Anything less, and I'd take it to mean I hadn't been helpful enough. As an aside, love the screen name. :) —Aichon— 05:50, 11 June 2011 (BST)

• Yes! I'm out of the bottom two! :D --Yonnua Koponen ^{T G P} ^^^ 20:51, 11 June 2011 (BST)

• Against Never really liked hagnat's rulings on most things, don't see why we need a revolving door for the same old clique to keep coming back & leaving ad infinitum. --Rise|||||||||||||||||||||||||||above 01:49, 11 June 2011 (BST)
• Against I still remember in 08 when he tried to use policy to stop players from voting if they weren't in his circle jerk clique. The wiki is here for the game not the other way around. -- LABIA on the INTERNET ^{Dunell Hills Corpseman} #24 - |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ^TMG 02:05, 11 June 2011 (BST)
• vO͑̇͒̈̒uC̨͗ͤ͒̑H̺͎̼̪͈̗̗̤̝̪̉̒ͪ̄͆ͣ̾̀͞ --jorm 05:24, 11 June 2011 (BST)
• Vouch hagnat has always been pretty level-headed in the dealings I've seen. A lot better than that wacko The General. --Zod Rhombus 19:49, 11 June 2011 (BST)

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