Sonic News Network:Requests for User Rights

Requests for adminship (RfA) is the process by which this wiki's community decides who will become administrators (also known as admins or sysops), who are users with access to additional features, most notably the ability to delete pages and to block users. A user either submits his/her own request for adminship (a self-nomination) or is nominated by another user. Please become familiar with the Administrators' how-to guide before submitting your request. This process is modeled around Wikipedia's RfA process, and more information can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.

Nominating
To submit a nomination for somebody else, please create a section below the "Current nominations for adminship" line listing the nominee's username as a piped link to his/her userpage. Below that, please include a statement about why you are nominating this person and why you think they will be a good admin. The nominee should then accept (or reject) the nomination, and include a statement about why (s)he wants to become an admin, why (s)he thinks (s)he is a good candidate, and what (s)he plans to do with administrator rights. All users must sign and date their statements.

To submit a self-nomination, please create a section below the "Current nominations for adminship" line listing your username as a piped link to your userpage. Below that, please include a statement about why you want to become an admin, why you think you are a good candidate, and what you plan to do with administrator rights. Please sign and date your statement.

Editorial Note: Adminship is NOT taken lightly. You may actually want to spend some time on your request. A couple sentences is hardly sufficient to show that you won't cause more problems than you solve with admin tools, let alone that you think that there is a good reason why more admins are necessary and that you would be a good candidate for a new admin, that you're willing to put time and effort into this wiki, and that you know how to use admin powers properly and would do so.

Discussion
Once a nomination has been made, users will review the nominee and declare their support or opposition by commenting. Such posts should be bulleted (with asterisks *) and preceded by Yes, No or Neutral. When declaring support or opposition in this way, please refrain from using a talk bubble, even if you frequently use one on talk pages. This is to help bureaucrats to easily determine who is for and who is against the nomination.

In this section, users may also make comments (to be preceded by Comment) or ask the nominee questions (to be preceded by Quesion) in an attempt to get a better idea of the nominee's strengths and weaknesses. Remember to use colons or asterisks (*) at the beginning of lines when responding to other people's comments.

If you wish to change your opinion at a later date, please strke through your original Yes/No/Neutral declaration (you can do this with the tags as follows: Yes produces Yes ).

This is not a majority vote. It is an attempt to assess the community's consensus regarding the candidate. Moreover, to become an admin, the candidate should have the support of most of the community, so if the vote is split, the candidate will probably not be given adminship. Any user can contribute, but opinions have more weight if backed up by reasons and evidence (e.g. occasions in which the nominee has done particularly good or bad work). The opinions of long-standing users, particularly current administrators, will also tend to hold more weight than recently-joined or inexperienced users.

After a reasonable amount of time, a bureaucrat (a user who has even more rights than an administrator, and can give other users admin rights) will read through the request, determine the community's consensus about whether you should be made an admin, and close the discussion. The discussion will be removed from this page, but is still accessible through the page's edit history.

Advice
Here are some pieces of advice for nominators and nominees:
 * Please read through and follow the nomination guidelines above. Failure to do so will harm your chances of success.
 * Demonstrate that you understand what being an admin involves. Read through Help:Administrators' how-to guide if you are not familiar with the role.
 * Admins are expected to be good users first, but this is not sufficient to be made an admin. Number of edits, number of pages created, being nice to other users, not engaging in vandalism, knowing about Sonic, etc. are signs of a good user. They should have no bearing on the discussion for adminship.
 * Don't expect that the community will be familiar with your work. You must provide evidence. In its simplest form, this may include listing pages (or talk pages) where you have been particularly influential, but preferably you should provide a link to the Diff pages of major edits you make.
 * Similarly, don't expect that the community will necessarily be aware of your nomination. You are advised to request comments from regular users, particularly admins (a list of whom can be found here). Note, however, that only asking your own friends to comment is usually transparent and may harm your chances in the long run.
 * If you are an admin on another wiki site, this can provide good evidence of your suitability for adminship, assuming either you have been granted adminship in recognition of the work you have done on the site (as opposed to receiving it because you founded the site or were one of the only users) or you have been an effective admin having received the privileges. You must provide a link to the site in question.
 * Don't lie, as doing so will almost certainly result in a failed nomination.
 * Be patient. This process is not quick. If you cannot wait for the process to conclude at its own pace, you probably aren't ready for adminship anyway.
 * Remember that this is not a talk page. Please keep discussions relevant to the matter at hand and do not start to chat. For instance, try not to thank everybody who votes in your favour.
 * Don't attempt to influence the discussion by promising to do something if you are successful.
 * Don't talk about things that you don't do, only things that you do do.
 * Please be civil!
 * Read User:Sonicrox14's blog: User blog:Sonicrox14/So, You Wanna Be An Admin?! and take a second thought about adminship.

Current Nominations For Adminship
Here are the users who are currently nominated for sysop, rollback, or other privileges.

Murphyshane (Admin)
I nominate Murphyshane for adminship. It is true that he deserves it with his main-space edits, behavior and maturity towards this wiki. He truly does want to improve himself and the wiki and he has. I am proud of him, he has made more edits I have, so why not? Murphyshane and I are the same level. I became an admin so why can't he?--58SlugDrones! 05:30, August 8, 2010 (UTC)

I'll now list some pros and keep the cons to myself. Course, don't know what good adminship'll do me but


 * I have the 5th most edits of all users with with  mainspace edits
 * I've uploaded several useful images.
 * I'm nice to other users (except vandals).
 * I was made Admin on other wikis for my frequent editing.
 * Pages I've created
 * Wario (I was unreigstered, but I can provide proof)
 * Egg Vacuum
 * Jet Booster
 * Espio the Chameleon/Artwork Gallery
 * Blue Falcon
 * Chaos Boost
 * Emerald Shards
 * Night Babylon
 * Gimme Shelter
 * Wave the Swallow (Archie)
 * Sunset Hill
 * Ocean Base
 * Toy Kingdom
 * Cannon's Core
 * Time Break & Speed Break
 * Heavy Dog
 * Gail Meteor
 * Cosmic Wall
 * Pirate Storm
 * Magic Lamp
 * Mad Space

-- Murphyshane  I voted Blaze, so you vote Shadow Don't click here 23:01, August 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * I edit daily


 * No - I'm really sorry to be blunt, but you are making the same mistakes as last time. This is what your nomination looks like in the context of the advice and guidance at the top of the page:
 * I have the 5th most edits of all users Irrelevant
 * I've uploaded several useful images. Irrelevant
 * I'm nice to other users (except vandals). - Let me know when you're polite to other users, INCLUDING vandals.
 * I was made Admin on other wikis for my frequent editing. - And can you give examples of what you did with admin privileges on these other wikis?
 * Pages I've created Irrelevant
 * You've got a lot of potential, but I really want to see you improve your nomination first. If you can show that you did good admin-related work on those other wikis, that would be sufficient evidence in itself of your qualification. -- Supermorff 09:49, August 18, 2010 (UTC)

Well, on WarioWiki I protected the main page because it was vandalised. People started replacing content with text like "Wario farts in Brawl yay" "Ur moms back" ect. A user also renamed it "Maud Page". I deleted unneeded pages like WarioWare: Touched (which was already an article so I turned it into a redirect) WarioWare, Inc. (same situation as Touched) and King Dedede (whic had nothing to do with Wario), a vandalised page like Maro Land (it had all kinds of things like Mario getting shot), Plumber outfit, Biker outfit and Captain syrup (which weres Spam and marked for deletion), User talk:81.104.126.252. (which contained another user's password)

As for being nice to other users, I like to help new ones learn how wikis work. Ya know, answer their questions, teach how to change font traits, etc. I'm nice to them cuz I don't pick fights or tell them that they're bad users. I'm also polite to vandals, if a vandal were to vandalise a page, instead of telling them somethin' like "Do that again and I will kill you!" I'd say "I'm sorry, but please do not vandalise a page again. Thank you." -- Murphyshane  I voted Blaze, so you vote Shadow Don't click here 10:22, August 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's MUCH better. When I have a bit more time I'll look over WarioWiki (and others I should check?) and various comments, and I'll consider re-casting my vote. -- Supermorff 10:33, August 18, 2010 (UTC)

WarioWiki's probably the biggest wiki I'm admin on. The other's are muuch smaller, however, I created a Sonic-Related wiki but soon realised that no one would edit. -- Murphyshane  I voted Blaze, so you vote Shadow Don't click here 10:41, August 18, 2010 (UTC)

I say Yes Murphyshane should become Admin.Murphyshane has created a lot of articles that will help this wiki.He has the 5th most amount of edits and he has 3,000 main edits.He deserves Adminship and I'm not saying this because were good friends I'm saying it because its true and he deserves it! Ultimate Dude  127 19:50, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

If I had emotions, I'd probably cry now...but I don't so I won't -- Murphyshane  I voted Blaze, so you vote Shadow Don't click here 19:59, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

If that was a thank you then I have no problem stickin' up for ya Murph. Ultimate Dude  127 20:17, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

Thanx -- Murphyshane  I voted Blaze, so you vote Shadow Don't click here 20:19, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

Not a problem. Ultimate Dude  127 20:33, August 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the vote UltimateDude. Now, how are those things relevant to being an admin again? -- Supermorff 22:17, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

My question is how is it not Admin worthy? He deserves it OK.And those are Admin like qualities. Ultimate Dude  127 22:25, August 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * I didn't say it wasn't worthy, I said it wasn't relevant. It's not. -- Supermorff 08:09, August 20, 2010 (UTC)

Supermorff, how am I admin and he's not? How am I better than him?--58SlugDrones! 23:20, August 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * Because you put your case better and pursued your agenda more diligently. Anyway, my vote is still in limbo until I get round to checking WarioWiki and other things. -- Supermorff 08:09, August 20, 2010 (UTC)

OK, I'll start putting my case more dilligently (even though I have no idea what that means) -- Murphyshane <font color="#00b6ee"> I voted Blaze, so you vote Shadow <font color="#C0C0C0">Don't click here   10:37, August 20, 2010 (UTC)

He means that you should present yourself more nicely and appropriately.--58SlugDrones! 11:06, August 20, 2010 (UTC)

Ah, I see -- <font color="Crimson">Murphyshane <font color="#00b6ee"> I voted Blaze, so you vote Shadow <font color="#C0C0C0">Don't click here   12:01, August 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * More to the point, you should follow the advice and guidance at the top of this page. -- Supermorff 12:43, August 20, 2010 (UTC)

I did -- <font color="Crimson">Murphyshane <font color="#00b6ee"> I voted Blaze, so you vote Shadow <font color="#C0C0C0">Don't click here   12:46, August 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, you followed most. Maybe the advice isn't clear enough, I'll re-word it. -- Supermorff 13:08, August 20, 2010 (UTC)