Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-4533965-20140908212058

Hello everyone. I would like to discuss about a topic that occurred several months ago, but wasn't handled properly. I'm sure most of you know what this is about considering the name of the title, but in case the title doesn't inform you about this topic, it's about the administrator nomination of well-known user MetalMickey272. And how it was concluded poorly.

You see, this nomination was huge. About 34 users participated in the nomination, and the final score was exactly 21-13. Here's what administrator SpyroSonic2000 concluded with:

"RESULT- MetalMickey272 will not become an administrator because of the low aproval rating (21-13 is worse than 10-6) and because most of the support votes give little to no reason as to why he should become admin and thus force me to believe they were done out of bias."

- SpyroSonic2000

When taking that and transferring it to a percent, that's roughly 64%. 64%. Let that sink in for a minute; 64% of the users supported Metal's nomination, which meant that 64% of the wiki essentially wanted Metal to be an administrator. And that was not considered a clear consensus. I'm sorry, but about 36% of the wiki rejected the nomination; and 36% of the wiki isn't enough to knock down the 64% of the wiki supporting the nomination. In other words, it was a clear consensus, and it was handled poorly.

But, we're not even done. Spyro had said, "...and because most of the support votes give little to no reason as to why he should become admin and thus force me to believe they were done out of bias." Not only are you disobeying a rule (the rule on assuming good faith), but you also completely guessed that the people who supported were forced. That's completely baffling, all we did is ask people to read the nomination and vote. There's a difference between asking someone to vote (which is left ambiguous, by the way, so we weren't telling them to support), and a difference between forcing someone to support.

In summary, Metal's nomination was handled poorly, and I wanted to tell the wiki this, because, honestly, I could have just scraped all of this and made another nomination, but I wanted to prove the errors I saw in the conclusion. And thus, I believe Metal should be nominated for administrator considering it was a clear consensus and Spyro assumed the worst of the supporting votes.

Need sources? Here you go:
 * Source: The last edit before Spyro took down the nomination. 