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.

Sonictoast (Rollback)
Well, I'd like to nominate Sonictoast for adminship. He's contributed alot to this wiki, mostly in much needed pictures. While I may not know him, I know that he hasn't caused trouble in his time here, and he's done alot. Considering he does almost entirely pictures, I feel that sysop may not be quite right, as he would rarely use it in my opinion. However, I believe in many sayings, and one of those would be, "Give credit where credit is due".--Kagi mizu -Seeya  'round ~ 15:50, October 2, 2009 (UTC)

LB, will you stop it with all the flash and junk. It gets really annoying.--Kagi mizu -Seeya  'round ~ 17:34, October 2, 2009 (UTC)


 * Neutral - Sonictoast is a great user, but as you said he's unlikely to use the privileges. And as these privileges are not status upgrades or promotions, I don't see the point. If you want to give him credit, give him a barnstar. (First, make a barnstar, then give it to him.) -- Supermorff 17:54, October 2, 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm pretty sure you can't do that with rollback. You'd need sysop privileges. And, once again, no, they are not a reward in any sense. If a person has, as you put it, slogged their stars off, then they probably do a good job and thus should get privileges so they can do a better job. But it's not a given. -- Supermorff 18:44, October 2, 2009 (UTC)

Well, that's true.--Kagi mizu -Seeya  'round ~ 18:51, October 2, 2009 (UTC)


 * Hey Gang, just noticed you're all talking about me. Honestly, I am honored to be considered.  Truthfully, yes I would love to be an administrator.  I am not sure what all the privileges of an administrator are, but I promise, if given such privileges I will do my best to use them to their potential for the good of this wiki.  So when you make your decision, just know that I am more than willing to take on the position.

P.S. What's sysop? Sonictoast 20:13, October 2, 2009 (UTC)

The level of admin that can delete articles, ban Users, and all the usual stuff.--Kagi mizu -Seeya  'round ~ 20:15, October 2, 2009 (UTC)

So, are we gonna go anywhere with this?--<font color="#0000FF">Kagi <font color="#FF0000">mizu -<font color="#008000">Seeya <font color="#FFA500"> 'round ~ 00:21, November 1, 2009 (UTC)


 * I have no particular complaint against Sonictoast receiving admin privileges, although I maintain that rollback is fairly pointless. -- Supermorff 08:11, November 1, 2009 (UTC)

"Not a snowball's chance"? Launchbrains, how could you doubt someone you don't even know that well? You mustn't judge a person by their edits -- whether it be in quantity or quality. Still, he's done a very good job here on SNN, and I'd be more than happy to grant him the status. However, and it has been said here many times, he may not ever really need to use the advantages. Rollback would be more appropriate. He has my vote for either one. -- Shelly   the  Hedgehog  05:33, November 17, 2009 (UTC)


 * Shelly, how else are we to judge someone for adminship if not by their edits? -- Supermorff 09:35, November 17, 2009 (UTC)

If what you're saying is true, can we nominate iLike, the vandals who's made about a billion edits here and there? No? GOOD! So you see my point. -- Shelly   the  Hedgehog  I'm not a monkey!  04:07, December 8, 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, I agree you don't judge someone by the number of their edits. That's not what you said - you said you shouldn't judge by quality or quantity. Anyway, I've recently seen Sonictoast do some really great work, and thing that some admin privleges are definitely on the cards. -- Supermorff 08:58, December 8, 2009 (UTC)


 * Do you know what? I have lately been so impressed that I am not only going to vote Yes for rollback, but actually nominate Sonictoast for sysop too, as below. -- Supermorff 10:39, December 13, 2009 (UTC)

Sysop

 * Yes - As above, I have seen Sonictoast do some amazing work lately, not just on images but on certain pages (Sonic the Hedgehog Toys has been built entrely from scratch by Sonictoast) and even contributing on talk pages. I believe that Sonictoast will put the privileges to good use (or, at any rate, will not misuse them) and will continue to do good work on the site. -- Supermorff 10:39, December 13, 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes - Sonictoast has indeed done some very good work lately. I wouldn't mind adding him to the admin ranks.--<font color="#0000FF">Kagi <font color="#FF0000">mizu -<font color="#008000">Seeya <font color="#FFA500"> 'round ~ 21:55, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

Bionicleboy3000 (Sysop)
I've been waiting a LOOONG time to nominate this guy! Anyways, I think he could make for a great admin, because he not only follows the rules, he enforces them! And, he founded the Shadow Spy Net Wiki, and takes good care of it. Plus, he created the, which has come in handy numerous times here on the wiki. He is a responsible, friendly user who deserves to be made admin of the Sonic News Network. Who's with me?! -- Shelly   the  Hedgehog  03:39, November 17, 2009 (UTC)

Hey, now that Akamia's back on, I've got three words for ya: AKAMIA FOR ADMIN!!--<font color="#0000FF">Kagi <font color="#FF0000">mizu -<font color="#008000">Seeya <font color="#FFA500"> 'round ~ 03:41, November 17, 2009 (UTC)


 * No - In the last three months he has not edited a single mainspace article (and only one mainspace talk page). He is not really taking an active role in the site, and thus I feel it would not be right to make him an admin. -- Supermorff 09:35, November 17, 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - That is because I hardly know what to edit, Supermorff. Most of what I know, when I find it out, it ends up being on the page I intend to edit. AND I was away because I was very busy. I'm active again, and am ready to take on anything thrown at me. Even adminship. I was gone in those three months anyhow. And, before then, I recall editing Master Emerald a couple of times.-- A k  a  m  i  a ( Talk )( Want to see what I've been doing? ) 09:53, November 17, 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, if you're back now, I will surely keep an eye out for your contributions over the next few weeks. I may change my vote then. But for right now, my vote is still no. -- Supermorff 15:30, November 17, 2009 (UTC)

Well, you can't exactly blame someone for their computer being down.--<font color="#0000FF">Kagi <font color="#FF0000">mizu -<font color="#008000">Seeya <font color="#FFA500"> 'round ~ 15:32, November 17, 2009 (UTC)

Heello! This is the guy who a few people believed would make a good bueaucrat! The reason he was off so much is because his computer was down, so he couldn't get on too often. We can't really blame him for stuff like that.--<font color="#0000FF">Kagi <font color="#FF0000">mizu -<font color="#008000">Seeya <font color="#FFA500"> 'round ~ 15:57, November 18, 2009 (UTC)


 * And, ashamed as I am to admit it, I agree with Launchballer. His reasons for not being here at this stage are irrelevant. He was not here. The fact that some people wanted to make him a bureaucrat is irrelevant. He is not a bureaucrat. If he is going to be here in the near future, then I will watch out for his contributions and judge them on their own merits when they are made. In time I will make an informed judgement. At present, my informed judgement is No. -- Supermorff 17:52, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

Alright, yes, that is a point, but we can't just focus on the time when he wasn't here. We also have to think about what he did while he was here. We have to focus on his overall contributions to this wiki over the entire period he's been here, good and bad. And from what I recall, he's made alot of good contributions, and I don't recall hearing about any bad ones.--<font color="#0000FF">Kagi <font color="#FF0000">mizu -<font color="#008000">Seeya <font color="#FFA500"> 'round ~ 18:12, November 18, 2009 (UTC)


 * No, what we have to think about is whether he'll be a good admin in the future. Specifically, how well he will use the admin privileges to perform tasks that he cannot perform as a regular user. I'm not going to look back at his contributions from half a year ago in order to determine how well he might perform in another half a year's time. -- Supermorff 18:25, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

Well it's not fair to look at only part of what he has or has not done, when you know there's more to consider. And if you want to see how he's done with admin privelages, look over at the Shadow Spy Net.--<font color="#0000FF">Kagi <font color="#FF0000">mizu -<font color="#008000">Seeya <font color="#FFA500"> 'round ~ 18:31, November 18, 2009 (UTC)


 * Don't get me started on that website. I'm sure it's great, but its very existence leeches users and information away from this wiki. Anyway, I suppose I should agree that one should consider all of a person's contributions. That is why, when I watch out for his contributions over the next few weeks, I will keep in mind the work he performed many months ago. -- Supermorff 18:48, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

That's all I ask, that we think about all aspects of a User and their contributions.--<font color="#0000FF">Kagi <font color="#FF0000">mizu -<font color="#008000">Seeya <font color="#FFA500"> 'round ~ 18:55, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

Launchballer, cool it! People do actually give a ****. And considering your actions as of late, I'd suggest you be careful, 'cause you're walking on glass as-is.--<font color="#0000FF">Kagi <font color="#FF0000">mizu -<font color="#008000">Seeya <font color="#FFA500"> 'round ~ 20:41, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

Did they invent a new swear word? Anyway I'll wait and see before I place my opinion.  Myself  <font color="Black">123  20:52, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

Oh, back in my day, we didn't censor the first part.  Myself  <font color="Black">123  21:03, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

Well I dunno, the actual profanity is censored.  Myself  <font color="Black">123  21:27, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

YO!!! Can we please get back to this episode of "My Last Favorite Curse Word" after we debate on Bionicleboy3000's rights for admin promotion?! Seriously, you people don't know SQUAT!! I've known Akamia since the day he invited me to Shadow Spy Net (I may have been the first one he invited...that's besides the point) the point IS that you shouldn't give him a "no" just because you haven't seen what he can do yet. At LEAST give him a maybe! That's Malfeasance in office!! I agree with Launchballer about waiting until Christmas, it's just that the Wiki isn't totally out of control. When Bionicleboy3000 finds a vandal, he'll report him! When he finds a file, he'll categorize it! And yes, Launchbooster, you're not waking on glass...just THIN ICE!! -- Shelly   the  Hedgehog  02:12, November 19, 2009 (UTC)

......Anyone wanna tick that off? "Cause I sure don't wanna.--<font color="#0000FF">Kagi <font color="#FF0000">mizu -<font color="#008000">Seeya <font color="#FFA500"> 'round ~ 02:19, November 19, 2009 (UTC)

Smart boy. -- Shelly   the  Hedgehog  02:41, November 19, 2009 (UTC)

Well I'm sticking by my wait and see comment posted earlier so he get back into his groove.  Myself  <font color="Black">123  15:37, November 20, 2009 (UTC)

i think we should give Akamia a liiiiitle more time to get his edits back up. overall, of the time i've been here, i've seen him give articles positive information. i think he'd be good for admin, but i'll let you guys decide. Midnight Wolf  Don't be hatin'!  05:07, November 30, 2009 (UTC)

Your vote counts too, Sunny! You're the new admin, after all, remember? -- Shelly   the  Hedgehog  05:19, November 30, 2009 (UTC)

Nuetral - I really hate to say it, since Akamia is a friend of mine, but he's hardly contributed lately. Granted, he's forced to use his DSi for internet access, but in the mean-time, it wouldn't do any good to give admin rights to someone who's hardly ever here.--<font color="#0000FF">Kagi <font color="#FF0000">mizu -<font color="#008000">Seeya <font color="#FFA500"> 'round ~ 22:00, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

Sonic & Scrab  Master
Hi. Um... can I become an admin? I know I made a few mistakes and acted like a complete idiot, but I can be very helpful.


 * I added the Tikal's Prayer page.
 * I inspired the Project Enerjak: Reborn page. Kagimizu knows.
 * I added the "Connection to Game/Team/Character" section to some songs.
 * Imake those comics everyone reads.
 * I made many edits (not including the ones one Tails6000's page)
 * I gave Kagimizu that Thanksgiving picture for the homepage.
 * I inform an admin when something happens like when something doesn't belong. (like that Shadic page)
 * I made that HUGE correction to the Dead Line page.
 * I undo any edits as long as I have the ability to.
 * I was also able to get my sister to join this wiki.
 * I have over 500 pages on my watchlist. (not including forums and talk pages. Sonic &  Scrab  Master