Sonic News Network talk:Requests for User Rights

Rollback allows users to more easily revert multiple edits on a page that have been made by a single person. It doesn't allow people to do anything they couldn't do anyway. -- Supermorff 13:47, June 1, 2010 (UTC)

Anyone can vote. -- Supermorff 08:24, July 3, 2010 (UTC)

For adminship anyone can vote for RollbackBlazeRocks55 13:39, July 3, 2010 (UTC)

Then why are non-admins allowed to vote on adminship now? What happened?

 Hey! Bullet!  The Easter Bunny is Here!  19:51, April 13, 2011 (UTC)

Things have changed, that last comment was made last year.  Myself  123  19:58, April 13, 2011 (UTC)

Proposal for new format of nomination
Guys, it's been clear to me for a while that our current system of admin nominations is a bit of a mess. It can sometimes be difficult for me to see where consensus lies from the comments, particularly when people change their minds. I would therefore like to propose a new layout for nominations.

Under this proposal, a nomination will now be created in the following format:

Discussion
The 'Support' and 'Oppose' sections will contain only the signatures of users who support or oppose the nomination, in a bulleted list. All comments and explanations, including the justification of the nominator, will go in the 'Discussion' section. What do people think? -- Supermorff 11:50, April 19, 2011 (UTC)

I think it's a good idea. I myself was looking down through a nomination once but some people didn't make their statements in clear bold, making it difficult to add up the votes. Good idea Supermorff, well thought of -- 'Murphyshane -  Morph! He's alive! Don't click here '  11:58, April 19, 2011 (UTC)

Because that would give the impression that this is a majority vote, which it isn't. -- Supermorff 21:08, April 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * And also, in polls you can't see who votes or why they vote. Also, people may create alternate accounts or use their IP (logged out) accounts to increase their support -- Murphyshane -  Morph! He's alive! Don't click here   12:11, April 20, 2011 (UTC)

Are they still allowed to state their reasons why? -- Hey! Bullet!  The Easter Bunny is Here!  21:10, April 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, in the discussion section. They would obviously be encouraged to do that. -- Supermorff 12:00, April 20, 2011 (UTC)

Any last minute objections? If not, I'll reword the page shortly. -- Supermorff 21:24, April 25, 2011 (UTC)

Soo... is the new format approved? --Bullet Francisco ''Don't Be a Jerk to the Bullet!  19:53, May 4, 2011 (UTC)

I think so too, but I think the nomination should stay for a little while longer anyway so it can teach this User a lesson or two about how things work here and how we don't take promotions of any kind lightly. A lesson in humility, so to speak. Phoenix the Cat The flames reborn....  19:48, May 8, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Phoenix the Cat The flames reborn....  19:55, May 8, 2011 (UTC)

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If no one else will do it, I can, I'm an admin over at Pokemon Wiki. They have a nominations page similar to the one you guys want. --

Just curious, when is the nominations page going ot be back up? Jake the Hedgehog '''That's Just How I Roll! 01:36, September 21, 2011 (UTC)

The page has now been reopened with a new format. Please discuss or suggest further changes here. -- Supermorff 08:36, September 24, 2011 (UTC)

'I'd love to be an admin. People trust me. I'd love to help make this website awesome! People say they trust me. I'd love to clean up this website. I can get rid of as many vandals I can. I don't like vandals. I'm an admin on another wiki,but that wiki isn't important. It's just Random stuff. I think this wiki is more important.'  15:04, September 24, 2011 (UTC)

Okay, well sadly you're not off to a great start because this talk page is for discussing the Requests for Adminship page and if you want to nominate yourself you have to follow the process that has been laid out on the Requests page itself. If the process isn't clear, then you can tell me here and explain why. -- Supermorff 15:26, September 24, 2011 (UTC)

Unanimous?
We'll let them stand for 2 weeks, as it says at the top of the page. -- Supermorff 07:51, October 10, 2011 (UTC)

Agreed. The Chat mods should be decided quickly, as well. -- 23:38, October 10, 2011 (UTC)

Changed. -- Supermorff 07:43, October 11, 2011 (UTC)

Recent Nominations
The RfA pages could use needs a heading after the rules on the recent users who gained a new status, it's really simple and users should know like a list. I may as well add it now. --FreeMilkShakesHere! 17:04, June 28, 2012 (UTC)
 * ...Why? We can simply have a link to the UserRights log, plus the recent users who gained a new status have their nominations stay there for a day. -- 18:27, June 28, 2012 (UTC)

Nomination Quantity
Now, I'm not saying any of the people nominated aren't qualified for their nominated position(s), but don't we have a policy preventing excessive nominations and promotions? Sonic News Network has a large amount of admins, rollbacks, and 'crats as-is. Hell, I have issues doing my job and getting edits because we already have many administrators and active users! So, shouldn't we start closing off the adminship requests and wait a few months until we see if more are needed?--Kagi mizu -Seeya 'round 07:40, July 18, 2012 (UTC) I agree. I think we should close further nominations for a few months, (3-4) and see what happens from there. We are getting enough of everything as is, so I'm actually going to agree with Kagi here. -- 11:41, July 18, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll admit that seeing the RfA log dominating the RCs, no thanks to the new MediaWiki update, it does make it quite difficult to properly keep track of edits. I need to scroll passed the giant, un-collapsable RfA log just to see if any other edits have been made. It would be one thing if MediaWiki didn't bugger up the RC log, but with the current AJAX issue, this onslaught of nominations is just overwhelming. I'll also admit that there was a bit of arm-twisting by others on the chat to get me to vote for everyone. :|  Trak Nar  Ramble on 07:44, July 18, 2012 (UTC)

Ironic how previously, there was a scarce amount of Administration and Chat Moderators, now it's all firing out of the back of the gun. I agree with the proposal of postponing a bunch of these nominations for a few months, and keep things evenly spaced. I recommend a maximum of 4-5 nominations until each one ends before starting a new chain of them. 12:00, July 18, 2012 (UTC)

You all make a good case. I support this proposal. And Sacor, I think you mean a maximum of 4-5 nominations. :P-- 12:28, July 18, 2012 (UTC)


 * Fixed DX 12:32, July 18, 2012 (UTC)

None, we said after all current nominations close we are proposing postponing anyone from nominating for a promotion for a few months. After that, limiting it to 4-5 nominations at a time. -- 12:37, July 18, 2012 (UTC)

I couldn't agree more. This got way out of hand. First, there was only one nomination then (in less than a day?) there are 13 nominations with all kinds of different users. This is outrageous. -- 'Murphyshane - <font color="#00b6ee"> 熱! <font color="#C0C0C0">Don't click here '  12:42, July 18, 2012 (UTC)