Sonic News Network:Requests for User Rights/FreeSmudger (Administrator) (1)

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I've been on this wiki for quite some time and I've worked very hard editing it with the aid of my Rollback status as well as monitoring the chat with my chat mod status and overall I am very active on this wiki. I’ve also frequently put the deletion tag on spam pages. Here are some links to examples of my reverts of vandalism:


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As Admin I would block troublesome users (as well as their sock puppets) after a sufficient amount of warnings, help new users, and delete unneeded pages and underused images. I truly love this wiki and have ever since I joined. I remember in my early days I gave the wiki a chat and then moderated it for many months. I want to help this wiki grow some more with my admin powers if you the community think I deserve to be able to use them. {{FreeSig}} 05:10, July 17, 2012 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) There is no doubt in my mind: I have nothing but the up-most respect for FreeSmudger. I've known him and I've been close friends with him ever for almost a year now, and being friends with him is far from the reason I am supporting him. Free Smudger is a fantastic user. There is no doubt in my mind that FreeSmudger will be a fantastic admin, should he get the position. FreeSmudger is a fantastic chat moderator, has made great use of the Rollback tool, and is an experienced wiki editor, who has been at the Sonic News Network for a year now. The tools will be nothing but beneficial to the wiki and to FreeSmudger. He constantly tags pages for deletion, he edits actively, he helps any user who needs it, he follows all Sonic News Network policies, and even though his editcount may be considerably less than other admins, quality>quantity definitely applies in this case. FreeSmudger has done major overhaul and cleanup on many articles. I have nothing but praise to say about this user, and I have no doubt in my mind he will be a fantastic administrator. -- 05:11, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) Per Bullet.  I like Hatsune Miku.   Problem?  05:12, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 3) Per Bullet. [[File:Will Life Icon.png]]  Will   Rose  [[File:Will Life Icon.png]] 05:15, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 4) I support a fellow Wookieepedian. Even a fellow former Wookieepedian.  Trak Nar  Ramble on 05:29, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 5) Per Bullet. FreeSmudger would make an outstanding admin. I look forward to administrating alongside you if you get the promotion. Best of luck to you. 05:31, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 6) Per Bullet. I see no reason to not let Free become an admin. He would make one of the best ones, if he gets the rights. Lightning   the   Hedgehog
 * 7) Yerp. -CariconCommander (talk) 07:04, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 8) Considering his past experiences, I'd say I'm open for another Administrator on the wiki. Free is very mature from what I've observed, and as Bullet pointed out, he edits quite frequently, has experience as a Moderator, deals with unnecessary pages, and removes spam. A very constructive editor, who can take on Adminship rights any day. 10:20, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 9) Per all above. The Shadow Of Darkness (talk) 13:00, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 10) I support, I have no reason to oppose, all I have is great reasons to support. (Basically, Per Kyle) We all  have our own   styles we   won't change  15:31, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 11) Per all of the above. SonicRunPeace.gif'Mariosonic15  I always race to win! Tailsbye.gif 19:08, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 12) Per Bullet. You are a great user and should have these rights. --- Fly the Fox    Rainbow Dash    Contributions     21:23, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 13) Per all. You deserve it. ☯ModrenSonic   The Ultimate Ninja☯  21:34, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 14) I think you're now ready to have a shot at an Administrative position. Best of luck if you get it. Lloyd the Cat  "I don't die. I just go on adventures."  23:54, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 15) I have no objections. All the good reasons have been presented. He has my vote.-- 13:26, July 18, 2012 (UTC)
 * 16) Per Bullet, there is no better way to sum free up then that. Thunder the Hedgehog  13:36, July 18, 2012 (UTC)
 * 17) OTAY: That's a lot of words, but I'm gonna say yes. Tyler the Hedgehog  "The ultimate son of a gun Charmcaster!"  20:35, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * 18) sure Razor the Eagle  "Lucas, I am The Pudding King"  20:41, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * 19) Per all above. His  World  01:31, July 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * 20) One of the best editors on Sonic News Network, I support Free to be an admin. One thing had struck me though; why become an admin this quick? Per Bullet.Zackery Willson (talk) 17:50, July 20, 2012 (UTC)BlueSpeeder-12:50pm-7/20/12
 * 21) Per the poster. Chao-happy.gif Dont mess wit dah pandahs  Chao-happy.gif
 * 22) No objections; I'm all for you! Shadowunleashed13 "I am...none of me..."  23:44, July 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * 23) I support too. He has definately proven himself worthyUltrasonic9000 (talk) 16:23, July 25, 2012 (UTC)

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED

Oppose

 * 1) I also oppose this for my own reasons. It seems you only joined, the August of last year. A lot of your edits come from User pages, blogs, speaking with other users, fanart etc. Though I will admit over half of your edits are mainspace. You've also been recently made a Chat Moderator. So now you're looking for Adminship? (even though alot of users think editcounts don't matter I still add this) Your edit count is also only about 3000. Don't think that will help, many users became admins when their edit counts were much higher (mine was 11,000). So I'm sorry for voting against you, but I must say what I believe. -- Murphyshane -  熱! Don't click here   09:58, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) I honestly think we have enough admins. And I'm not sure if he's worthy enough yet. But I'm not sure why I'd say that... Someone's gonna attack me with all the reasons he should be admin. --Rainbowroad6w, the researcher. ( Talk )( Recent finds and updates. ) 14:32, July 18, 2012 (UTC)
 * 3) You know, I don't know why, but I just don't think you're ready quite yet. Not because you don't have enough edits or something to that effect, but I just don't think you're ready quite yet. I know people will get upset at me for this, but still. 19:43, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * 4) This is purely over the fact of our number of administrators. I feel that having a high number of admins will make it difficult for everyone to properly do their jobs. Perhaps after some other admins step down or retire, I would reconsider. But ATM, we have plenty of admins and additional numbers would be superfluous.--Kagi mizu -Seeya 'round 08:40, July 30, 2012 (UTC)
 * 5) Per Glitch

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED

Discussion

 * @Murphy He's been here for a year, he got Chat Mod almost a year ago, and got rollback over 7 months ago. Also, he doesn't do very many minor edits, a lot of his edits are overhaul edits and reverting cases of vandalism. Quality > Quantity. -- 10:01, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * I wrote a pretty long message in the discussion on my apology on some parts but still do not accept this nomination and all but due to edit conflict its.... gone ;_; --You want it with duck or without? 10:49, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * You realize you can go to the bottom of the page and it allows you to recopy it? -- 10:51, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Free, I would like to point out that in the advice column, it says not to give examples. Just letting you know. Time Biter  "The Rift"  11:33, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * No it doesn't Biter, on the fourth bullet point it says to provide evidence. 18:58, July 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * While I quite like your nomination, I've spent some time today reverting edits you made because of problems in the wiki markup. That's a concern, and is probably simply because you use the real text editor, but could become more of an issue if you had extra privileges. -- Supermorff (talk) 19:18, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * What do you mean? I use source mode almost all of the time. 20:28, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * Really? Weird. Have a look at some of my recent edits that reverted yours to see what I mean. I'll give you a link if you can't find them. -- Supermorff (talk) 20:36, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * There is a glitch that's been around for awhile when you start in Visual Mode by default (Because you have not turned it off) and switch to Source Mode, and back and forth (sometimes you only need to switch once) it glitches a bunch and causes problems in wiki markup. You can go to your preferences and turn Visual Mode off. -- 20:40, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh wait, I see the problem. The edits I made there were used in visual mode, I was just adding periods to the end of the "so and so"'s title screen and I used visual mode. I really should have used source mode, sorry about that incident. But asside from that incident I use source mode. 20:47, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * Regarding the whole "never edits in the mainspace", about 55% of his edits are mainspace, he has more mainspace then a lot of the other admins do, so I don't see an issue here. -- 21:07, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * @Murphyshane: I may have joined a little less than a year, but several admins like Kagimizu, Sonicrox14, Supermorff, and several other admins all got their adminship within a year of them joining. As for my edits, I make my edits full of quality. Currently my mainspace editcount is higher than Genesjs, Admiral Levithan and more admin's mainspace editcounts. My overall editcount is higher than Bionicleboy3000. As for my other edits, it varies. I edit my userpage mostly because other users are sending me artwork they made for me and I use talk pages when another user needs help or I am dealing with a vandal, I hardly ever use them to chat with them. I use the chat for that. I also don't upload fanart that much compared to other users even some admins like you. You say like I just joined this wiki when that isn't true like stated previously it's almost been a year, and it may seem like yesterday due to your recent comeback from inactivity. I'm not trying to sound rude, that wasn't my intention. and if you are offended by this I am deeply sorry. Thank you for taking your time with this message. 21:45, July 19, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hmmm...most of what you said is beginning to change my mind, over the next few days I'll keep an eye on you and if I see something that impresses me, I'll change my vote. -- Murphyshane -  熱! Don't click here   21:51, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately starting tomorrow, I will be going on vacation to the beach with my family and a friend. However, I will be checking on the wiki but with minimal editing. 21:58, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * I've looked over some things in your contribs and apparently, you've created a total of 14 articles, that would really help your chances of adminship. -- <font color="Crimson">Murphyshane - <font color="#00b6ee"> 熱! <font color="#C0C0C0">Don't click here   23:12, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * No, creating articles does not help chances of adminship, because creating articles is completely irrelevant to adminship. Admins have no new abilities over regular users that will facilitate article creation. -- Supermorff (talk) 07:10, July 21, 2012 (UTC)

Conclusion
Yes - While community consensus wasn't entirely supportive of your nomination, I think that the general consensus seems to agree that you seem fit for an Administrative role at this time. Therefore, you shall be now given Admin privileges. Please use your new tools to the best of your ability. This discussion will be closed shortly. Lloyd the Cat "I don't die. I just go on adventures."  04:42, July 31, 2012 (UTC)

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