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, 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 parties must sign 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.'''

Process
Users may list questions for the candidate (which it would probaby be good to answer) in the Questions section and/or comment in support of or opposition to the request for adminship in the Discussion section. In the Discussion section, please preceed your post with Oppose, Neutral, or Support (you may modify those with Strong or Weak.) Please not that 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. 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 your request, determine the community's consensus about whether you should be made an admin, and close the discussion.

Current Nominations For Adminship
Here are the users who are currently nominated for sysop, rollback, or other privileges. After the answer has been given, please remove their section. Only users with priveliges may cast a vote on giving another user rights. Majority rules. Please remember to give a reason as to why you think a user does, or doesn't deserve to be an admin. Please place Yes, or No before your initial comment, and user :'s, and *'s to reply to another users comment. Non-admins may place their opinion, but their vote will be ignored.

Genesjs (Rollback)
I hereby nominate Genesjs for rollback!! He does all he can to help the Wiki, and I think he'd do an ever better job if he had the rollback status. Everytime I talk to him, he's made a helpful contrib. And not only that, but he's also good with the users here (including one admin, Sunny) so I think he should be given the chance! -- Shelly ' the ' Hedgehog  I'm not a monkey! 06:16, January 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes - Now that you mention it, I think he's shown some promise. Not ready for sysop, I think, but I'd be willing to give him rollback and see how he uses it. -- Supermorff 20:09, January 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes He really deserves it, he is the best vandal fighter I've ever known! -- The Gem Foxcoon Trio Emerald Ruby Sapphire!  22:10, February 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes: While I would say "Neutral" if he were up for adminship, for fear that the stress might overwhelm him, but in the case of Rollback, I have no complaints.--Kagi mizu -Seeya  'round ~ 03:39, February 17, 2010 (UTC)

Okay, it's been about a month, and Gen has 3 votes: 2 from an admin and a beaurecrat, and one from a troll. Should I make it official? -- Shelly ' the ' Hedgehog  I'm not a monkey!

Go for it.--Kagi mizu -Seeya  'round ~ 04:28, February 18, 2010 (UTC)

Milo the Echidna (Admin)
I realize that all of the admins are currently being harassed by tons of requests and I have only recently earned the status of rollback, but I would like to vie for a position on the admin team. Here are a couple are my qualifications:
 * Non-admin with the most mainspace edits. (Another thing to add to that link is that at least 40% of my edits are mainspace)
 * Assisted in the removal of the Link sprites (which have yet to be taken action by an admin)
 * Created the Sonic Riders Template and the "Missing Picture" Template
 * Voted by SNN that my publicity attempts will bring more readers
 * Proposed a set of trivia rules for the wiki (Which have yet to be approved)
 * Worked on two pages so that they were nominated for featured article
 * Have assisted in vandal watching, including unnecessary pages.
 * Is an active user

I realize that I have more to learn (But I can and will learn with experience), but please consider this as enough qualification for adminship and please consider the oppurtunities in me becoming an admin :)-- Milo the  echidna  19:17, February 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * What Link sprites would these be? -- Supermorff 19:33, February 1, 2010 (UTC)

Comment: The Link sprites that appear when a forum that was previously visited has been edited. I realize that there are a number of users (most likely yourself) that don't have this problem. This may be an issue with the web browser. Mystic may know what I'm talking about-- Milo the  echidna  21:58, February 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * Okay, you have my vote :) -- The Gem Foxcoon Trio Emerald Ruby Sapphire!  22:07, February 8, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the support, but you're not an admin so it doesn't count...-- Milo the  echidna  18:22, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

WHAT?!?!?! that is no fair! Everyone should be allowed to vote for their admins! >:( -- The Gem Foxcoon Trio Emerald Ruby Sapphire!  18:33, February 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes: While I haven't seen him around too much myself, we could use the help. He hasn't caused any trouble whatsoever, and I would trust him with adminship.--Kagi mizu -Seeya  'round ~ 03:41, February 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment Out of curiosity, how have you been using the rollback privileges we already gave you? -- Supermorff 14:06, February 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment: I'm gald you asked. Oddly enough, my computer freezes in the process of "rolling back" (possibly out of a wiki code bug?), so I end up having to take an extra step in the process and "undo" that edit. As of late other users have often beaten me in the vandal-report process, yet you probably have evidence that I have at least participated in it.-- Milo the  echidna  18:19, February 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * Huh, weird. You might want to speak to wikia staff about that. -- Supermorff 00:58, February 20, 2010 (UTC)

Shadow34 (Rollback)
On this wiki, like any other, there is vandalism. Many users spend a lot of their time reverting it. I can help with that, and I believe that I could do a better job helping this wiki if I was given rollback rights.

Apart from that, there are some other qualifications I have that may interest you:


 * I have been on the Sonic News Network for almost exactly one year
 * I haven't been in trouble with the admins before
 * I have never vandalized any articles
 * I haven't insulted or offended any other users
 * I have started at least 100 articles
 * I have a reasonable amount of edits

So, in conclusion, I would really appreciate it if you would consider giving me rollback rights. Thank you for reading my request.--Shadow34 20:28, February 5, 2010 (UTC)Shadow34


 * Yes: I personally haven't had an issue with him, and if I recall, he's done a fair bit of vandal fighting.--Kagi mizu -Seeya  'round ~ 03:38, February 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Maybe: I probably haven't been paying attention, but could you provide some instances of times you've reverted vandalism? -- Supermorff 14:06, February 19, 2010 (UTC)

Knuckles the Echidna (Rollback)
I nominate the user so he can revert vandalism quickly. He deserves it he has been around here for a while and has a bunch of edits 60+ main edits and he works very hard to edit those pages to make them correct. -- The Gem Foxcoon Trio Emerald Ruby Sapphire!  22:09, February 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * No. HE QUIT AGES AGO!!! -- Shelly ' the ' Hedgehog Amy to Shelly.png I'm not a monkey! 03:26, February 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * No He is nowhere near active enough, and the idea that 60+ main page edits is impressive is... well, not impressive. -- Supermorff 14:06, February 19, 2010 (UTC)

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 * As? Why? Not an impressive nomination, by the way. -- Supermorff 00:58, February 20, 2010 (UTC)

SalaComMander (RollBack)
I nomanate SalaComMander for his incredable mainspace fixing. Check his Contributions For more details

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 * I'm not seeing anything there that demonstrates good admin skills. Some good editing, certainly, but those two things are not synonymous. Could you be more specific? -- Supermorff 00:58, February 20, 2010 (UTC)