UDWiki:Administration/Re-Evaluations

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Once a year, all sitting sysops will come up for re-evaluation by the community. The idea of this re-evaluation is to ensure that each sysop still has the trust of the community, which is vital for a sysop to have. This will give the community a chance to voice their opinions about how the sysops have been doing, and re-affirm or decline their trusted user status.

The idea of a sysop being a trusted user is a part of the guidelines for the general conduct of a sysop. The guidelines for the re-evaluation is the same as for being promoted to a sysop (which is reposted below), but with a few minor changes in wording.

Guidelines for System Operator Re-Evaluations

Once a year, on Urban Dead's birthday (July 3rd), all sysops will be subject to a community discussion. Sysops may also put themselves up for re-evaluation at any time (see below). All users are asked to comment on each candidate in question, ask questions of the candidate, and discuss the candidate's suitability for continuing to be 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, as all users get a chance to air their opinions on the candidate.

Once the two weeks are up, the Bureaucrats will review the community discussion and make a decision for each candidate based upon it. The user will be notified of the status of their re-evaluation, and will be retained in their position should it appear that the community is willing to continue to accept them as a System Operator. In the event that the decision is negative, then the sysop will be demoted back to regular user status, where after a month's time, the user can re-submit themself for promotion.

Before users voice their opinions on the candidate who wishes to continue their System Operator status, the following guidelines should be reviewed by the user:

General User Guidelines for System Operator Re-Evaluations

Before voicing their opinion on a candidate's re-evaluation bid, a user should consider some of the following questions:

• Has the candidate spent significant time within the community as a sysop?

We define this as the candidate having made at least one edit in the past 3 months. It is recommended that a user look over the the sysop activity check and last 500 edits to determine the level of activity of the candidate.

Note: The Truly Inactive Sysops policy dictates that a sysop who hasn't made an edit within four months is automatically demoted. Therefore, for a sysop to be re-evaluated, they need to have made an edit before that time-frame is up.

• Has the candidate maintained significant activity within the community?

We define this as at least 50 edits under the candidate's name since their last re-evaluation. It is recommended that a user look over the candidate's last 50 edits in order to get a feel for the activity of a candidate.

Note: looking in a User's User contributions might give false results for this criterion, as the edit history used to be periodically purged on this wiki.

• Has the candidate expressed interest in maintaining the community?

We define this as clear evidence that the candidate is already performing maintenance tasks and continuing taking a leadership role on the wiki.

• Has the candidate expressed a desire to continue to be a System Operator?

We define this simply as indicating in the candidate's request their desire to continue to maintain the position.

• Is there an indication of trust in the candidate.

We define this as a minimum of three other users (preferably users with at least 200 edits under their name and at least one System Operator), willing to vouch for the candidate's suitability for the role.

If a candidate is highly exemplary in one guideline, a certain level of flexibility should be extended to the other guidelines. Other guidelines for qualifications may be used, these are just a few suggested things to consider before a user voices their opinion.

Re-Evaluations still open for discussion

User:Misanthropy

Shit's going down 36 minutes early. I'll notify myself in due course. 23:24, 2 August 2010 (BST)

• Vouch - Misanthropy is a strong and committed member of the sysop team. He often presents dissenting opinions, and sticks to his guns. He has strong leadership skills, and aquaints himself with all areas of the administrative section, as well as the rest of the wiki.--User:Yonnua Koponen/signature2 23:26, 2 August 2010 (BST)
• Strong Vouch - Misanthropy is a weak and somewhat unwilling to commit member of the sysop team. He occasionally presents dissenting opinions, but just as often agrees, and he's not afraid to waffle on his stance. His leadership skills are lackluster at best, and he's doing his best to keep away from the parts of the wiki that don't interest him. All of these make him an excellent sysop. —Aichon— 23:29, 2 August 2010 (BST)

  I learnt from the best. 23:34, 2 August 2010 (BST)

• Vouch - Remind me to hunt him down and violently murder him. You know, for funsies. --VVV ^RPMBG 23:43, 2 August 2010 (BST)
• Vouch FF that farce already. -- Spiderzed▋ 23:47, 2 August 2010 (BST)
• Vouch - I've witnessed some strange moments from misanthropy but there was never a point where I thought it came anywhere close to outweighing his pros. --
   
   
   
   
  02:05, 3 August 2010 (BST)
• Vouch - After reading the above, I have lost my wit for the night. Sadness. --Maverick ^{Talk - OBR 404} 08:04, 3 August 2010 (BST)
• Misanthropy is a good sysop that does his job well. As DDR said, he's had some strange moments, but I've never seen anything that makes me think that he's fundamentally unsuited to the job. He's one of the most active sysops on the wiki at the moment, and he's very good at what he does. Linkthewindow  Talk  12:00, 3 August 2010 (BST)
• Vouch even though I do hate your sig! --Honestmistake 14:46, 3 August 2010 (BST)
• Vouch I'm going to kill myself for doing this, But yes, misantropy is responsible for half the stuff that goes on on this wiki. So she needs to stay sysop.-- Jerrel tlk _{(82nd!) (Project Unwelcome!)}. 15:53, 3 August 2010 (BST)

  She? If that were true I would have offered my babies by now! --Thadeous Oakley 15:58, 3 August 2010 (BST)

  Drag has happened. 16:03, 3 August 2010 (BST)

  I just always thought with the Mis in misanthopy. Wow. Where's the facepalm emot when you need it?-- Jerrel tlk _{(82nd!) (Project Unwelcome!)}. 16:09, 3 August 2010 (BST)

  MISANTHROPY: (Noun)
  Hatred or dislike for, or distrust of, humankind. 16:13, 3 August 2010 (BST)

  Ahhh. Again, feel free to facepalm me. This is the saddest fail in the wiki today.-- Jerrel tlk _{(82nd!) (Project Unwelcome!)}. 16:15, 3 August 2010 (BST)

• Vouch Sadly, Misanthropy is a dude, but still a mandatory Vouch for the good work he does here.--Thadeous Oakley 15:58, 3 August 2010 (BST)
• Vouch ...even though he has incurred the pox of the Blob for his treachery in the recent election :) --Dr summeroff 17:46, 3 August 2010 (BST)
• Mudkip! (I'm sure the Psycho Psyops will be able to interpret this. ^^) --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 18:08, 3 August 2010 (BST)
• Vouch I think it's great that we have a sysop who's a chick. --Dawkins ^{[T][P!][W!][♞]} is currently: having his arm torn off by a zombie. 18:16, 3 August 2010 (BST)
• Vouch I have no problems with this. Asheets 18:25, 3 August 2010 (BST)
• Vouch - Mandatory equality vote. --Karloth Vois ^¯\(°_o)/¯ 18:27, 3 August 2010 (BST)
• vouch misanthropy, well, uh.. yeah. spiffy. --Jack Kolt ^Talk|Chars 20:43, 3 August 2010 (BST)

Re-Evaluations still needing to be processed

There are currently no Re-Evaluations to be processed.

Recent Re-evaluations

• Red Hawk One - Archived as successful -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 11:56 26 July 2010 (BST)

Archived Evaluations

• Complete list of Re-Evaluations Requests
• Successful Re-Evaluations Candidacies
• Unsuccessful Re-Evaluations Candidacies

Re-Evaluations Scheduling

User	Position	Last Contribution	Seat Available
A Helpful Little Gnome (Contribs)	Bureaucrat	2021-10-29	2021-12-01
DanceDanceRevolution (Contribs)	Bureaucrat	2021-10-28	2021-12-01
Rosslessness (Contribs)	Sysop	2024-06-10	N/A
Stelar (Contribs)	Sysop	2021-10-29	N/A

Total Sysops: 4 (excluding Kevan, LeakyBocks and Urbandead)

Last updated at: 03:58, 28 October 2021 (UTC)