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 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. Other users may then list questions for you (which it would probaby be good to answer)and/or comment in support of or opposition to your request for adminship. After a reasonable amount of time, a bureacrat (a user who has even more rights than an administrator, and can give other users admin rights) will read through your request, determine the community's consensus about whether you should be made an admin, and close the discussion.

Nomination
I would like to become an admin, so that I can help rid SNN of it's fancruft. There is much work to be done, and I think that I would be good for the job, as I know very much about the Sonic series. As being asked, I will move fancruft articles into a person's userpage if a single person is working on it, and if it's multiple people, I will move it to a fourm. I will block users for only 1 reason: Are there any questions about me, or why I think that I should be an admin? Skeletal  S.L.J.C.O.A.A.A.T.R.  Soul  19:03, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1. The user adds nothing to SNN, and only works on fancruft articles, or only vandalises. However, I will give that user 3 warnings before blocking them.

Questions
Yes, I have several questions:

1. Why do want to become an admin? You said "so that I can help rid SNN of it's fancruft," but becoming an admin is not at all required for that. Admins can delete pages, but deleting pages has no place in the current Fan fiction guidelines. Admins can block people, but "writing too much fan fiction" or even "writing only fan fiction" is not grounds for a block. It seems to me that you can separate the fan fiction from the canon material fine without being an administrator. Is there another reason you wish to become an admin?

2. When you came here you began blanking pages and deleting large chunks of information (albeit fan related) without first seeking any advice on how to better handle the problem. You continued to do this after I left this warning on your talk page. You seemed to stop this after the fanfic discussion in the community portal, but regarding the page Bloomia, you could have solved the problem at any time by moving it to Jarrydm23's userspace, as per the guidelines set in Sonic News Network:Fan fiction, but instead you nominated the page for speedy deletion (not following the Fanfic guidelines.) Why? Moreover, if you had been an admin, would you have simply deleted the page?

3. What is your opinion on Sonic News Network:Fan fiction?

4. Why does your signature still redirect to a userpage and talk page which you use as yours but which are not your actual user pages, even after being asked to change that?

5. Why have you been blocked from Wikipedia in the past? Could you please explain some of the problems you have run into there? You seem to have a tendency towards edit warring and incivility there that worries me a bit.

6. Most importantly, being an admin requires a commitment and a dedication not just to improving the wiki, but to helping the wiki community. Are you willing to take that time and effort, and are you willing to try to work with all members of the community?

~ FerralMoonrender 21:55, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'll take a whirl. No big deal if I don't become an admin, but, whatever.


 * 1. Well, I think that users may take things more seriously if an admin asks them to stop vandalising an article. I personaly feel as though the (No offence to you.) admins here really don't do enough to keep SNN in good running shape. I see no need for fourms, but, that's not up to me. As for blocking people for only wrting fancruft/fiction/characters/or whatever, like on Wikipedia, I feel as though a person must earn their rights to be here. In order to do that, I would like to see all users doing a good amount of non-fan related, non-vandalising contributions. I would also like to start seeing users citing informatio when adding it to an article.


 * 2. When I first came here, I knew very little about SNN, I just saw loads of fancruft. I thought that, by blanking the articles, tha get an admin to realise it's fancruftness, and delete it. I didn't even realise that non-admins could move articles until you said so. Heh...


 * 3. My opinion on the fanfiction here, is simply, I would prefer to have it on a fourm, or something, but, if you must have it here, I would like to see users putting it in userspace. I don't want them to solely dawdle on their userspace only, but, to put fanfiction related things here, while also making good edits. I've seen some users adding their fanfic information to real articles. (IE: Jarry, and Cosmo's article.)


 * 4. As for my signature, well, I accidently made a mistake while making this account. I accidently forgot the 3rd A. So, I made my signature to lead to SLJCOAAATR 1, like it does on Wikipedia. I made Soul direct to my contributions to make things a bit easier.


 * 5. My blocks on Wikipedia are all very recent, and all trace back to the same thing. Recent problems on Sonic articles there. Various Sonic character articles have gone under alot of un-needed merging, and destruction by a group of users who call every little thing "fancruft" Even a characters middle name. One day, I just blew up with all of the constant fighting between everyone. Seeing one of the mergers getting away with constant cursing, and assaulting almost everyone pretty much drove me insane. Granted, my blow up got me a one week block. My other major block, was about a week ago, where a large portion of users like me were inappropiatley indef blocked by a large group of discrimintory admins. Blocking various users under 18 saying that we act like Myspacers. Alot of our work was also deleted, because of the rogue admins. My, 2, possibly 3 other blocks, were minor penalties for getting into a small edit-war with a vandal.


 * 6. Yes, I am willing to improve any downsides that I have, and I am willing to dedicate my time to SNN, and other Wikia's that I am preparing to help work on in another week, or two. If you feel as if I'm not admin material, just tell me what my downsides are, I will try improving them in due time, and I will re-apply at a later time. Thank you for you time, Ferral!


 * Skeletal  S.L.J.C.O.A.A.A.T.R.  Soul  22:23, 18 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Some follow-up statements:
 * 1. The admins here are only me and Navij11, so obviously we're a bit overwhelmed, but really most of the needed blocks and deletions get done (and if a regular user thinks a page should be deleted or a user blocked, they can easily leave a message on Navij11's or my talk page.) For everything else, regular users can clean up and please the wiki as well as admins, and we definitely need more of that from everyone in the community. For example, Stumpers is a user who has helped keep this wiki clean an amazing amount. As for earning the right to be here, just like Wikipedia:Assume good faith, the policy of this wiki is to assume everyone has the right to be here until they do something that's actually vandalism or otherwise disruptive.
 * 3. I actually meant to ask your opinion on the fan fiction policy: Sonic News Network:Fan fiction.
 * 4. Be that as it may, you are required to use the userpages corresponding to your actual username. If you would like to have your username changed, I would recommend talking to Angela.
 * Thanks, ~ FerralMoonrender 16:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Nomination
I'd like to nominate him. I know that he'd be a great admin, and will do anything he can to make this a great site! Ask away at him... Skeletal  S.L.J.C.O.A.A.A.T.R.  Soul  17:52, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I would like to be an admin. So, fire away.Fair field fencer F F F  18:07, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 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.