Zeldapedia:Requests for adminship

This is the page where users can request Administrator and Rollback rights and vote on other users who are requesting rights. Please read the following regulations and instructions completely before voting or placing a request.

For additional information about Administrators, please see the Administrators' how-to guide and What administrators cannot do.

In the event that an Administrator or Rollbacker is being unruly or breaking the rules, a request for their demotion may be placed below in the Requests for demotion header. The same voting rules apply for this as well. The vote totals required for their demotion remain the same as those for promotions as well.

Rules for requests
Each user's request will run for two weeks, during which members of the community will vote on the request. An applicant may and should inform other users of his or her application.

If the applicant meets the vote quota in that time, then he or she shall be given the promotion. If an applicant obtains the needed support votes without obtaining any oppose votes before the allotted two weeks have expired, he or she will be promoted without having to wait the remainder of the two weeks. (Note to Bureaucrats: In this situation, allow at least one full day before promoting a candidate in order to give users ample time to cast their votes.)

If the applicant does not meet the required votes in two weeks, the request will be archived as "opposed". After a failed request, both for Rollback and Administrator rights, a user must wait 4 weeks (1 month) before requesting again.

From the months of May-September, promotions for Administration will be disabled for all those who have not been active for at least two months prior to this start date. People who have been actively editing for two months prior to this start date will be excused from this rule and will be eligible for promotion.

Rollback
In order to apply for Rollback rights, an applicant must have:
 * 1) A minimum of 400 mainspace edits
 * 2) A minimum of 2 months of active membership

An applicant must obtain a vote total of +4 or higher to be promoted (see Voting).

Administrator
In order to apply for Administrator rights, an applicant must have:


 * 1) A minimum of 750 mainspace edits
 * 2) A minimum of two months of active membership after obtaining Rollback rights (4 months total).

Or
 * 1) A minimum of 1250 mainspace edits
 * 2) A minimum of six weeks of active membership after obtaining Rollback rights (3 1/2 or more months total).

In special occasions, a user may apply if he or she has less than the required time limit of active membership under the discretion of active admins (To be discussed on talk pages).

When an Administrator has been inactive for a substantial amount of time, their Administrator rights will be removed, but their rollback rights are retained. To regain their Administrator rights, they are required to actively contribute to Zeldapedia for at least 2 months, at which time they can reapply.

Regardless of the aforementioned requirements, a user must obtain a vote total of +6 or higher to be promoted (see Voting).

How to request promotion
After meeting or exceeding the said requirements, follow the following instructions to place your request.


 * 1. Add the following to the bottom of the Requests header, replacing "USER" and "RANK" with your username and desired rank, respectively:


 * 2. Under the header and user information, write a few sentences about why you are requesting a promotion and what qualifies you for the position. Users will then vote on whether or not you should be promoted to rollback or administrator status.

Rules
To vote, a user must:
 * 1) Be an active member of Zeldapedia for at least one month at the time the voting begins.
 * 2) Have 150 or more mainspace edits at the time the voting begins.

Templates

 * Support votes count as +1 toward an applicant's total
 * Oppose votes count as -1 toward an applicant's total
 * Neutral votes do not affect an applicant's total
 * An applicant's vote total can be found by adding up the supports and opposes. For example, an applicant receives 5 support (+) votes and 2 oppose (-) votes. His or her vote total is +3.

Minish Link (administrator)

 * Minish Link (talk · contributions · edit count )

Hey everybody, Minish here again. Well, time again I request being an admin; I feel that I'm fully qualified with enough edits and enough time on the site (just reached a year!) and all that jazz. I also feel I have matured a lot since my last request and in the past few months in general. Basically the reasons I'd like to become an administrator is to delete pages, move images, and block vandals. I'll highlight my achievements and all that now:


 * I've created many pages, namely Ice Block, Kinstone Bag, Map of Hyrule, Item Bulb, and Hyrule Town Sewers, and Stockwell's House. There may be a few others but I've forgotten.
 * I essentially rewrote every one of the Akira Himekawa manga pages.
 * I rewrote the The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap plot section.
 * I feel I've been helping in the community a lot more lately.

So those are the "big things" I've done, now I'd just like to highlight the reasons I feel I should become an administrator, and the reasons I shouldn't.

Reasons I should become an administrator are:


 * I'm pretty level headed
 * I'm unbiased most of the time
 * I'm online pretty frequently and therefore could take down vandalism pages and stuff like that
 * While this is kind of unrelated, I find loads of mis-named images and would like to be able to move them.

Reasons I shouldn't become an administrator are:


 * Sometimes I lose my cool and get mad; while this isn't often lately and I'm working hard on it it does happen occasionally
 * I can be biased sometimes
 * Sometimes I can act immature, and while this usually isn't on-wiki it has happened once or twice

Well, there you go, people. Say what you will. Thanks for your time. -Minish  Link  20:53, January 25, 2011 (UTC)

Votes

 * You are definitely in the upper level of contributors to this here site right now. While you do have some admitted flaws and a certain risk factor as has been discussed before, for my own part I believe your dedication and contributions to this site so far could indeed be augmented by the granting of administrator rights. These days, we are quite frankly quite low on active admins, and even though we may not have the site requiring the most administrative attention, it's good to always have access to more administrators on active duty. Besides which, a good number of editors with less edits, trustworthiness and dedication than yourself have been granted the rights, so why not. I hope I can trust you to make good editing decisions, not to misuse your powers, and that this will only serve as a catalyst for more activity and editing on your part. --Auron  Kaizer !  20:59, January 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry, but I haven't really noticed a change from last time. You've been pretty active, which is good, but you've basically left the community. And there was that incident in which you came on the IRC and just let someone have it, for lack of better terms. Keep working, editing, improving your emotional control, and trying, and you may get a support from me someday. T h e Mask-Mimic.gif ™  21:00, January 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * While I understand your oppose completely and all that, it frustrates me that you've brought the IRC into a reason for opposing me purely because wiki rules do not, or to be fair, did not apply to the IRC. The IRC and the wiki are a totally separate thing, as have been discussed before. I just don't think it's entirely fair to bring that in specifically for a reason for opposing. EDIT: And about me leaving the community- please tell me, what is that supposed to mean? I thought it was my wiki activity that counts, not IRC. The IRC was screwing things up mentally and so I left there and became more active here; in fact, I personally think I've been involved in the community moreso than most people. I don't really understand what you're getting at here. -Minish  Link  21:04, January 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * The IRC and the wiki are separate, sure, but if you were to send me an email saying what you said on the IRC (or if we're talking about anything here, not necessarily that particular case), you've still sent that message to me, and that does affect how much I think that you're ready. What I mean about the community is that you haven't really been talking about other things non-wiki-related, being part of the community (while not completely required, it's still important for an admin to be involved other than just to edit). Also, I'm just not sure if you will ever do something like the Faethin (sorry if I misspelled that) incident or the one mentioned previously (the one on the IRC). One of the main reasons why I'm not going neutral is because of this. I haven't seen that you can for sure control it better than before. True, it's a rare thing when you do; but it's still important for an admin to let that happen extremely rarely, if ever. However, after rethinking, you are still active and you do have many redeeming qualities. I'll have to think this over more, but that's what I meant. T h e Mask-Mimic.gif ™  22:30, January 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * I guess I get what you're saying about not being very "non wiki community" active...I personally haven't seen many opportunities to get involved, but uh, yeah. I'd appreciate if you'd at least rethink it a little bit, as selfish as that probably is. -Minish  Link  01:52, January 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm still rethinking it, of course, but I think that I'm pretty solidified on oppose. (This isn't a low oppose, though; it's an almost neutral, actually) T h <font   color="#CC6600">e Mask-Mimic.gif ™  02:15, January 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Alright. -<font color="#B0E0E6">Minish  <font color="#003366">Link  02:20, January 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I really don't think you're quite yet there. I'm not going to hold past incidents against you (though they are there and are kind of hard to dislodge from the brain, but I'm attempting not to pull reference to those "incidents" as you have shown that you've pulled yourself away from it quite a bit), but I feel that you aren't that close to the community aspect of the wiki. Now, I'm not saying that an admin should be, but if an admin can perform good edits and prove right from wrong on the mainspace, I don't see why they can't be a bit on the community-side more (where I assume most of the admin powers come into play). It's really only that. You tend to stray away from the community aspects a bit, but I feel it plays a substantial role as an admin, which is why I ain't giving you support or at least not yet. - McGillivray  227  23:15, January 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * This is close to a support, but I'm still not entirely sure that you can be relied upon to keep a level head in stressful times. - Is drak  thül  00:04, January 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Hard to say since I've been inactive for so long, but I looked through some of your recent contributions and have to say that I don't particularly support or oppose this.  Xykeb   Yvolix   Zraliv  22:57, January 26, 2011 (UTC)

You just haven't grown up to the point of adminship. Give it some time, wait for longer than a month, since not very much can change in a month. Work on keeping a completely level head, since you do tend to fluctuate, not much, but it does happen. Although you haven't had incidents, the Feathin incident still sticks out. And the fact that since random IRCers could take the people in our IRC as wiki representatives, if they saw what was said, it would make our community seem kinda bad. Inactivity happens, and it's not really something people can help, what with people actually having real lives, but when you do go inactive, just like, post a message or something so people know you're out. You're getting there, you really are. Just wait a longer, and you'll be there soon enough. --<font color="#00BFF3">ϐαςς <font color="#35077D">ᴶαϟϟι  23:24, January 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * I've thought about it somemore. And the Faethin thing still sticks out a lot, and the fact that you aren't really community involved. You come off as unbiased, but you are actually a tad more biased than you let yourself admit. I haven't seen you really finish something. I've seen you pick stuff up, and work on it, then let it be for a while. And while you're more mature than most people your age, you sometimes pull complete 180s and go to being immature. And the whole "op to abuse" thing and the fact you judge people on first take, and stick with that judgement. I'm just not seeing much growth from you. Like I said earlier, wait longer, grow up some more, actually finish things, and you'll be there. --<font color="#00BFF3"> B <font color="#000000">ass <font color="#00BFF3"> J  <font color="#000000">apas  17:31, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't mean to be rude here, but I haven't actually seen you finish anything wiki related either. And I finished my project with the manga pages. The only thing I haven't finished is the TMC videos. I'm not trying to convince you to change your oppose back to a neutral or anything like that and I understand your decision completely, even if it does frustrate me. As I said before, no hard feelings for the oppose or anything like that. -<font color="#B0E0E6">Minish  <font color="#003366">Link  17:39, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * He finished the redirects with me. Which you of all people should appreciate the difficulty of.
 * This is a very very low support. I've been thinking about this one for a while. There are two big things that make me still think I should have gone neutral. First, I'm not sure how reliable you can be. When I started up the Youtube page, you were one of the first people to volunteer to help out, yet you have yet to finish more than two bosses. At the same time I've gone though and done six games in the same time. I really didn't hold this against you because I'm not sure what your life is like and I know that when I do something I try to be really dedicated to it. But that this is one of the reservations I have about you. The other thing that tempted me not to support is how you can be very biased and unreasonable in certain situations. Once again I didn't hold it against you because I can understand why you are like that and would pry behave in a similar fashion in your shoes. --Birdman5589 (talk) 15:29, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for reminding me, I'm actually working on it now. I had forgotten and remembered yesterday but was busy doing other things. Mainly the reason I haven't been working on it as much is because wiki-wise my primary focus is just mainspace editing as opposed to this, but I do like the project a lot and I'd like to see it through to the end. -<font color="#B0E0E6">Minish  <font color="#003366">Link  17:22, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * Just so I can see how many people accuse me of being biased. and the fact you're an awesome mature editor. -<font color ="#68E0D0">Stars <font color ="#187868">talk  http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/pyroac/Starssprite.gif 17:11, February 4, 2011 (UTC)

BassJapas (administrator)

 * BassJapas (talk · contributions · edit count )

Hi all, due to our lack of active admins, I've decided to run again. It's been a month since I last ran for admin, my first request was hastily made after a morning with about five spam pages being made, and not being able to do anything about it, I wanted to get something done about it. To say the least, I was seeing red. I originally wanted to run for admin sometime in January, but having run in November, I wasn't eligible. I was reminded of running here when I started filling out my Request for Admin over at Mario Wiki. I do have a small request though, if I'm at another wiki and I have admin over there, please do not take that into consideration for a support (this is going off my last request) as the other wikis I edit at are much smaller than Zeldapedia.

I'm going to be setting this request up similar to my last request since it's the best way I know how.

Points I have improved on from last time:
 * I've discussed things with the community and haven't made a non-community decision in a while.
 * I feel as if I've grown up a lot from the last request.
 * This wasn't really a point in the last part, but it was why I didn't want to run then: I've gotten out of my depression and have been clear for a while.
 * I've patched things up with wikis where I've had previous issues on, and I'm now actually one of the wikis main contributors.
 * I've gotten to be less harsh.

Why I feel I should become admin:
 * I am actually pretty unbiased.
 * I've grown up from the previous year.
 * I discuss stuff within the community and create forums for said discussions if needed.
 * I'm pretty good with coding and templates and categories.
 * I don't hide behind my personal life anymore.
 * I'm always on Zeldapedia when I'm home, may not be editing, but the page is always up.
 * I'm quite active, and we need some actually active people as admins.
 * I've learned to be civil with people I used to be uncivil towards.
 * I've learned to keep a level head, and when I feel myself getting steamed up, I back down.

Why I feel I shouldn't become admin:
 * I still do have a bit of personal life issues.
 * I still have a bit of growing up to do.
 * I haven't been the most active, due to trying to improve other wikis.
 * While working on those wikis, I've neglected Zeldapedia a little.

Well, I've given my reasons and the most I can do now, is hope that you guys believe that I can handle this job this time around. --<font color="#00BFF3">ϐαςς <font color="#35077D">ᴶαϟϟι  23:27, January 25, 2011 (UTC)

Votes

 * Sorry, but no. You've done a lot of work, but it's not particularly the most beneficial of contributions you could make. Which also leads me to question how much admin rights, if bestowed upon you, could indeed augment your contributions to the wiki. And still, your past comes back to haunt you here, and I'm still not sure whether I'd trust you not to misuse these rights if you find yourself in a particularly problematic situation again. Months of trust to build up without any incidents, and plenty more contributions to provide here, for you. --<font color="#3ba0c5">Auron  Kaizer <font color="#3ba0c5">!  23:33, January 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * I actually haven't really had a truly problematic situation, aside from those two incidents in the IRC, in quite a while. And yeah, still trying to shake my past and get people to look aside from it. --<font color="#00BFF3">ϐαςς <font color="#35077D">ᴶαϟϟι Japas Artwork.png 23:42, January 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * I am in agreement with AK. - Is drak  thül  23:47, January 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * Look, I feel really, really bad doing this, and it's really damn close to a neutral, but I'm going to have to oppose. While you really are a brilliant editor, like five times more productive than me, and you're my friend, your personal issues still get a bit much and with...certain on and off things going on at the moment I'm not sure if you can handle this. I'm not saying you'd abuse it -don't think that- but I think that given the right emotional pressure you might and stuff, and because of what's been happening lately...Well, yeah. I hope you understand and I feel even worse about doing this since I'm running right now >.< -<font color="#B0E0E6">Minish  <font color="#003366">Link  01:50, January 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sorry to just be adding to the pain of the red oppose army, but I don't think that you're ready. You've definitely improved in a few ways, but other ways still need improvement. You still need to work at maintaining your composure in all situations. Your editing is quite good and you know a lot about the wiki; but there are some admin aspects for which I don't think that you're ready. If you would like me to further explain, please ask. <font color="#663300">T <font   color="#996600">h <font   color="#CC6600">e Mask-Mimic.gif ™  02:15, January 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Minish asked me to vote for his so I figured I may as well vote for this one as well. As I mentioned, I've been inactive so it's hard for me to judge, but I've looked through your recent contributions, considered your past activity, and (without letting it directly influence my vote) observed the reasons other people are opposing and I think I have to agree with them. Of course, if this vote is seen as "unfair" by somebody since I don't have direct knowledge of your actions, I can get rid of it, but there's my two cents.  Xykeb   Yvolix   Zraliv  22:57, January 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Recently I recall you having an edit war on the 3DS page. While you were right, you couldn't even talk to user and straighten things out. Instead of having a meaningful discussion with the user, you lost your cool and could not explain anything with logic. In that instance you also lost your cool and cursed in the summary of one of your edits. Because of that I'm not sure if you can keep your cool if you were an admin. --Birdman5589 (talk) 15:17, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * I had tried to talk it out in the best way I thought possible. And we should all know from me editing here for a while that I have a very distorted sense of logic and everything else. So while you think I didn't explain it with logic, I actually had. I actually treid to have a meaningful discussion, but I had also undid the edit on my last check up of the wikis for the night, and had the intention of going to sleep right after. While I shou ldn't have let it get involved, I had gotten at most four hours of sleep that week and was sick, so quite frankly, I was not in the mood to have a meaningful discussion, and I know that I shouldn't have let that get in the way of settling things in a better way. --<font color="#00BFF3"> B <font color="#000000">ass <font color="#00BFF3"> J  <font color="#000000">apas  17:31, February 4, 2011 (UTC)

Fierce Deku (rollback)

 * Fierce Deku (talk · contributions · edit count)

I've been active here for a while now, I think I've made a lot of good edits here and am ready to become a rollbacker. You all have seen my edits and/or looked at my edit history so I'll let all that speak for itself. I have had a couple incidents in the past with changing something early that was later stated as demanding more community discussion, and with re-undoing an undone edit without proper explanation/linking to relevant conversations. These were a while ago though. They've been resolved and I think that I have gotten past those kinds of edits. I'm not yet familiar with all the finer points of certain rules and things but I feel that I've demonstrated enough understanding/competence that I can be trusted with rollback rights. I've reverted vandalism before and at least once or twice I've done the manual equivalent of rolling back, so I think I'd be helpful if I had the ability. Thank you all in advance for your support and/or constructive criticism (which is also a form of support). Even if you do support this promotion, I’d appreciate as always any advice you should have on how I can improve in the future.--<font color="Green">Fierce <font color="SaddleBrown">Deku 06:39, February 4, 2011 (UTC)

Votes

 * I don't really have much to say aside from the fact that this is something you deserve. You're involved with the community, which is always a good thing, join in in discussions/start discussions. You may not be familiar with the finer points, but you're still fairly new and you're getting to learn them. You seem to have mark-up down and it appears you know your coding. I think this is needed for you. And I was gonna nominate you if I hadn't flubbed in my "eh, running on MW, why not run here" thing, so I truly apologize for that. I wish you the best in this run, and I think it looks pretty good for you. --<font color="#00BFF3"> B <font color="#000000">ass <font color="#00BFF3"> J  <font color="#000000">apas  11:46, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * Since I recommended it, then obviously. Can you imagine if I opposed? --EveryDayJoe45 (talk) 13:33, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * You are an active editor and for rollback you really don't need to know all the finer points in markup and what not. Every once in a while you jump the gun on something but at least you will/can engage in a conversation about any edits where there is disagreement. --Birdman5589 (talk) 15:07, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not even going to read the reasons you've put forward as to why you should be a rollback because I made my mind up weeks ago and I really doubt theres anything there that will convince me otherwise <font color="#66FFFF">Oni <font color="#7F007F">Dark <font color="#007A00">Link 16:26, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * <font color="#133761">ObIvIoUsLy --<font color="#3ba0c5">Auron  Kaizer <font color="#3ba0c5">!  16:31, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * You're a very very productive editor, on a lot, and I believe you deserve this. I actually was considering nominating you last month to be truthful. -<font color="#B0E0E6">Minish  <font color="#003366">Link  17:14, February 4, 2011 (UTC)