Sonic News Network:Requests for User Rights

Requests for User Rights is the process by which this wiki's community decides who will be promoted to a new user right (Administrator, Bureaucrat, Chat Moderator or Rollback). A user either submits his/her own request for a promotion (a self-nomination) or is nominated by another user. Please become familiar with the Administrators' how-to guide before submitting your request (if you are requesting adminship). This process is modeled around Wikipedia's RfA process, and more information can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.

Layout
The following layout must be used for all new nominations. Nominators are encouraged to use the following code as a template, added as a new section under the current nominations and customized for the specific nominee.

Word bubbles must not be used as they interfere with numbering, and signatures must contain no line breaks. Signatures must contain a link to the relevant user's user page but no links to the pages of other users.

Username (rank requested) Username (talk): Contributions Edit Count

Short section describing nominee's suitability for rank requested. Signature of nominator to be included at end of paragraph, along with the date of nomination.


 * For nominations by other users only, a single bulleted paragraph by the nominee accepting the nomination. Signature of nominee to be included at end of paragraph.

Discussion

 * Comments in short, signed, bulleted paragraphs.
 * Responses to specific comments should be offset with an extra asterisk. Responses should also be short, signed, single paragraphs.

Note: Adminship is not taken lightly. Nominators may want to spend time on their requests. The short section should cover reasons why the nominee would be expected to use admin tools appropriately and demonstrate that they are dedicated to the wiki. It should also explain why giving them such tools will further the aims of the wiki.

Discussion
Once a nomination has been made, users will review the nominee and declare their support or opposition by placing a short comment and their signature in the 'Support' or 'Oppose' sections (in the format of a numbered list, i.e. preceded by #). As above, word bubbles must not be used as they interfere with numbering and there must be no line breaks. Signatures must contain a link to the relevant user's user page but no links to the pages of other users. Do not try and include your entire thought process in such comments; only include the key reason or reasons for your vote.

At the same time, users are encouraged to explain their decision in the 'Discussion' section.

The 'Discussion' section can be used for further commentary or for asking the nominee questions in order to clarify your position. Comments must be short, single paragraphs in a bulleted list and include a signature. Again, do not use word bubbles, even if you frequently use one on talk pages.

Direct responses to a bulleted comment (e.g. by the nominee) should be placed directly after the comment and indented with one additional bullet point. (That is, a comment preceded by a single asterisk * would be followed by a comment preceded by two asterisks **. If you have trouble formatting lists in this way, it is recommended that you go to Special:Preferences and deactivate the visual editor under the 'Editing' tab.)

Any user can contribute to the discussion or declare support or opposition, but opinions have more weight if backed up by reasons and evidence (e.g. occasions in which the nominee has done particularly good or bad work). The opinions of long-standing users, particularly current administrators, will also tend to hold more weight than recently-joined or inexperienced users.

Resolution
Adminship and bureaucrat nominations will last for two weeks; rollback and chat moderator nominations will last for one week. In this time, nominations must have received a sufficient number of participants in order to be valid. For rollback or chat mod requests, 5 users must have participated. For adminship requests, 10 users must have participated. For bureaucrat requests, 15 users must have participated. Nominations that have not reached this quorum level at the end of the relevant period have failed. (Note that participants include those who comment in the discussion section of a nomination.)

This is not a majority vote. It is an attempt to assess the community's consensus regarding the candidate. The candidate should have the support of most of the community, so if the vote is close, the candidate will probably not be given adminship.

After the time frame for the promotion the user is asking for has passed, a bureaucrat (a user who has even more rights than an administrator, and can give other users admin rights) will read through the request, determine the community's consensus about whether the nominee should be promoted, and close the discussion. The discussion will be removed from this page, and will be archived by an administrator in Category:Requests for User Rights. All successful nominations in which the majority of the discussion regarding the nomination took place on this page will be archived.

Demotion discussions will last as long and require the same number of participants as promotion discussions about the same rank.

If a nominee decides at any time that they do not wish to pursue a promotion for themselves, they are welcome to remove the discussion entirely before it comes to a conclusion. However, a nominee is not permitted to remove a demotion request.

A nominator is entitled to remove any discussion they have posted (including a demotion request) if no other users have yet commented.

Advice
Here are some pieces of advice for nominators and nominees:
 * Follow the process as described above. Failure to do so will harm your chances of success.
 * Demonstrate that you understand what being an admin involves. Read through Help:Administrators' how-to guide if you are not familiar with the role.
 * Being a good user is not sufficient to be made an admin. Do not bring up number of edits, number of pages created, being nice to other users, not engaging in vandalism, or knowledge of the Sonic series. Only users widely recognized as good users should be nominated for adminship (those that have not demonstrated this through their work will have their nominations rejected quickly) and they do not need to prove this again during the debate for adminship.
 * Don't expect that the community will be familiar with your work. You must provide evidence. In its simplest form, this may include listing pages (or talk pages) where you have been particularly influential, but preferably you should provide a link to the Diff pages of major edits you make.
 * Don't expect that the community will necessarily be aware of your nomination. You are advised to request comments from regular users, particularly admins (a list of whom can be found here). Note, however, that only asking your own friends to comment is usually transparent and may harm your chances in the long run.
 * If you are an admin on another wiki site, this can provide good evidence of your suitability for adminship, assuming either you have been granted adminship in recognition of the work you have done on the site (as opposed to receiving it because you founded the site or were one of the only users) or you have been an effective admin having received the privileges. You must provide a link to the site in question.
 * Don't lie, as doing so will almost certainly result in a failed nomination.
 * Remember that this is not a talk page. Please keep discussions relevant to the matter at hand and do not start to chat. For instance, try not to thank everybody who votes in your favour.
 * The ideal candidate is one who is being prevented from carrying out work by the limitations of their user rights. If you can demonstrate that you would have used admin rights in the past (e.g. by tagging pages for deletion that were subsequently deleted, or informing an admin about a vandal that was subsequently blocked), provide evidence for this. Don't attempt to influence the discussion by promising to do something or act differently if you are successful, as this is a sign that you are not yet ready.
 * Don't talk about things that you don't do, only things that you do do.
 * Please be civil!
 * Don't be biased. In your reasons for voting, do not state such things as because you are "best friends" with a nominee. Your vote will not weigh greatly in your claim if others view it as biased.
 * Forgetting to provide any of the above requested information in the layout of your nomination will weigh heavily on your request. It is highly recommended that before publishing your nomination, you should preview often to ensure the links that you provide as well as the required links of the layout are formatted correctly and will successfully transmit your voters to the desired source. Grammar and spelling errors are not wise to leave in your request either. Again, preview often and proofread your nomination before submitting it. Ensure that your nomination sounds proper and is easy for other readers to flow through it without needing to pause at a misspelling or a confusing statement.

Current nominations
Here are the users who are currently nominated for sysop, rollback, bureaucrat, or other privileges. New nominations must be added below this line.

DiscoDuck (Administrator) DiscoDuck (talk): Contributions Edit Count

Hello. I'm a long time visitor here and today I give my chance the final of second chance to go for the run. Today I nominate myself for adminship. I know, didn't see it coming either. I would appreciate it if you'd go thoroughly read the entire nomination and honestly judge. If you don't know me too well, please understand what is said below, I claim no lies.

Honestly I dig very deep to contribute this wiki, I search the whole internet to add something new, and some of you can tell because I add some rare stuff. And sometimes have to rip off stuff from old documents to add info here.
 * Firstly, My Contributions, Now contributions are the main reason I'm here. I've realized my self that I do edit quite a lot in this wiki and I've been working hard on adding info ever-since I was unblocked a long time ago. I believe I have done some very useful contributions here since I usually look forward to add information for people are true Sonic News Seekers, usually stuff that most people haven't really seen before. That is why I look forward to adding Game secrets, development material and of course a lot of concept art, So I feel like making SNN more distinct from other websites.

I do contribute a lot. After some calculation Ive realized that I'm in 2nd place of the most useful edits of the last 1000 edits. I also made approximately < 450 edits of mainspace and image uploading in my latest 500 edits here and wasable to make those 450 edits in 10 days.

Aside from that, I very often add deletion templates to unwanted pages. Like pretty often. So I could do good use of sysop powers by actually deleting the pages myself. Aside form that too. I do a lot of cleanup and formatting and often add additional templates and make pages more presentable too users who come here for information only. So my goal is making this wiki as convenient as possible for newcomers and info seekers as making formats that are most easily accessible to users (Like my Sonic Unleashed works).

I've also introduced some types of edits to the wiki. I was the '''first to add Achievement templates to Xbox games which is now made common and concept art area for character gallery pages. ''' Also I made the 5,000th page. Doesn't matter, though.


 * Secondly, Protection and Policies. Now I believe I follow all of them. Really. It comes to me very often by reverting vandal edits too. And I give my fair share of warnings to vandals in a polite manner, telling them about the rules.

I've been as obedient as I can to anyone who would talk to me here (Maybe I can be a little to honest that could be rude). I often '''warn newer users for commenting on older blogs and very oftenly tell new and even older users not to use images that were fan-works of other people as icons.  I've also introduced a few users to some of our Sister Wiki's in the best way possible.''' Some users would add fan fiction in mainspace, so since I understand not many newcomers will understand subpages and sandboxes, I introduce them to the Sonic Fanon Wiki, which I believe is a better warning than way the rest do it.

I frequently use that chat and stay as polite even though there some lefts and rights here and there amongst others and have warned user's with less than 100 edits to join. '''However one downfall is I could talk a little rudely, but I can control it. It's human nature, and becoming admin will make me even more obedient.'''

I see myself friendly here, I don't pick up fights, really. The main thing I wanted to express was my help to others by making things for them. It helps, honestly. I've even made whole userpages and templates and icons for many users without any hold back or regret. I look forward to help people, honestly you can ask people (Like Mighty the Hedgefox, Sly the Fox, Blaze Sol, Niktext, Ohmygod123, GoledenGuy, BlueSpeeder, XxTinkaStarsxX etc.). So that shows that Im willing to my duty and help as many as I can, no matter how big the problem is. Also I can use my photo editing skills to create big things for the wiki look, trust me.


 * Experience Now everything I've said above can assure you that I know what I'm doing. I know each and every bit of wikia tools and how to use them, I will do this wiki a wee bit more justice.

I was an admin and turned crat in the Smosh wiki by inviting 50 new users, changing the entire look and making high quality page, since it was absolutely hopeless before (My crat was removed due to inactivity because I wanted to contribute to SNN more).

I also asked 2 fellow administrators like Sacorguy (few minutes ago) and Katrins (last year), If they'd approve my adminship, both of the said YES.

Being admin, I'll look forward to help this wiki as much as I can keeping up what I'm currently doing and expanding it with the many uses of adminship abilities. '''I also understand that there is not much of a need for newer administrators but I'm looking forward to helping this wiki in many different ways which can also change the wiki entirely., that most admins donot do. Also being the 2nd most active editor, I'll be as active as I can as an admin.'''

Now. That concludes most of my nomination and I appreciate it, if you've read thoroughly. One last message: Now I was a sort of a troll and a mischievous user in the past 2009 and 2010, from 2011 to now, I am a completely changed person, and for some people still stuck in the past, I assure you to get over it.

Thanks. --Quack 04:14, June 25, 2013 (UTC)

Support

 * 1)  21:36, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) You are a good user, and even though you forgot your signature, I think you deserve the position.  Time Biter  "The Rift"  21:38, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * 3) Your edits have been indeed constructive. I'd say you're ready.  23:01, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * 23:58, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) The Shadow Of Darkness (talk) 03:35, June 25, 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) JokerJay779 (talk) June 25, 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) JokerJay779 (talk) June 25, 2013 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) Sorry duck, but i do not see you as an admin. A rollback maybe, but not an admin.
 * 2) I'm sorry, Disco, but I'm afraid I'll have to oppose. First, you set up the nomination wrong. You've also broken a few rules of the RFA: namely: "Do not bring up number of edits, number of pages created, being nice to other users", ect. You've also brought up some unneccesary points such as being an artist. I'm also not really convinced by your reasons for nominating yourself in general. It also seems you haven't been very active until recently. Finally, and I can only speak for myself, I just don't know you well enough to support you for adminship. It might just be a thought at the back of my head that doesn't want you to become an admin, but I stand by my argument. 25 June 2013 01:37 (UTC)
 * 3) Glitchguy summarizes my thoughts. I have also seen you breaking SNN guidelines recently. Particularly, you are rather brash towards newcomers (specifically vandalizers). When dealing with vandalizers and/or other rule-breakers, I've seen you threaten them instead of guiding them. I can pull up some examples if necessary, but I do not find your behavior suitable enough to be an administrator. -- 02:13, June 25, 2013 (UTC)
 * 4) Per Glitch and Bullet. Sorry Disco. 17:16, June 25, 2013 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Considering that you are a good user, you did set up the nomination wrong. As well as that, you didn't leave a signature. 18:59, June 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * @Silver I was told to go for rollback 3 years a go. 3 years later I'm still told? Sorry, but that's not right

@Speedy I actually had another nomination open next to me having to get the source identical. I can fix it.

@Glitch I appreciate everything you've said. However just a few thoughts. Firstly my art isnt the reason why I should be admin, it's just that in my addition I can plan to make new things for this wiki unlike every admin.. Besides Drones. Anyways, I poorly nominated for Drone's adminship a long time ago just saying she's a good user and makes edits and boom, she became admin.

About "Do not bring up number of edits, number of pages created, being nice to other users", I just felt it was a proper way to show my obedience and hard work here, I'm sorry bout that. I also understand the back of your head thought which could mean 2 things; My rather layed attitude than the rest and I was a troll a long time ago, the troll things is gone, trust me.

@Bullet Yeah, I think I'd like to see some examples. Recent ones. And even if I've got a behavior uncomfortable to, I believe being an admin will remove all of that. It's a little responsibility. :P --Quack 04:12, June 25, 2013 (UTC)
 * Please format your comments in the discussion section correctly. As for examples, the most notable one can be found at User talk:Derpster699. There was no need to talk so abrasively to that user, especially for a first warning. You should kindly warn the user that what they are doing is against the rules. If they do it again, tell them a bit more assertively, but you should never be as as aggressive as you were. You say you will stop if you get administrator? You shouldn't be doing it now. Your behavior can be fairly questionable at times, and I'm not sure how you would handle administrative tools. You aren't even a rollback, so we don't even have good examples of how you've handled tools on the wiki previously. -- 04:30, June 25, 2013 (UTC)

Glitchguy (Chat Moderator)
Glitchguy (talk): Contributions Edit Count


 * Please read my paragraph before voting for this nomination.

I nominate Glitchguy as chat moderator. He is very active on the chat feature, he knows the policy of chat and enforces it, and he warns non-chat moderator users on chat about a rule depending on their scenario. He is ready for the chat moderator user rights. 21:30, June 24, 2013 (UTC)

I accept this nomination. 24 June 2013 12:34 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) As a poser. 21:30, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * 21:32, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) I agree. Glitch is very mature. He is ready. Time Biter  "The Rift"  21:33, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) Aw yeah 21:34, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * 3) You are ready for this position.
 * 4) A mature user who spends a lot of time on chat, with experience of the policy? Definitely -- Murphyshane -  熱! Don't click here   21:42, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * 21:53, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) Fits for a Mod.  22:57, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * 23:58, June 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * 00:52, June 25, 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) An exceptional user. Overdue promotion. 02:13, June 25, 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) Ready? I am Mystic Orb, the overlord of all! (talk page) 02:34, June 25, 2013 (UTC)
 * 3) The Shadow Of Darkness (talk) 03:34, June 25, 2013 (UTC) --Quack 03:59, June 25, 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) The Shadow Of Darkness (talk) 03:34, June 25, 2013 (UTC) --Quack 03:59, June 25, 2013 (UTC)