Sonic Wiki Zone:Requests for User Rights

Template:CommunityPages 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, Content Moderator, Discussions Moderator, Chat Moderator, or Rollback). A user either submits his/her own request for a promotion (a self-nomination), or is nominated by another user (if you decide to nominate another user, it is recommended that you check with him/her before making a nomination). Please become familiar with the Administrators' how-to guide or read Help:User rights for more information about other rights.

Process

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 can 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.

===[[User:Username|Username]] (rank requested)===
<small>[[User:Username|Username]] ([[Message Wall:Username|talk]]): [[Special:Contributions/Username|Contributions]] [[Special:EditCount/Username|Edit Count]]</small><br>

Short section describing nominee's suitability for rank requested. Signature of nominator to be included at end of the 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.

====Support====
#

====Oppose====
#

====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 the 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.

Simultaneously, 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, please 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 ** in source mode. 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/or evidence (e.g. occasions in which the nominee has done particularly excellent or malicious work). The opinions of long-standing users, particularly current administrators, will also tend to hold more weight than recently-joined or inexperienced users.

Resolution types

Promotion system

Below, are the conditions and notices for how the system of promotion requests works:

• Adminship and bureaucrat nominations will last for two weeks. For adminship, at least ten users must have participated. For bureaucracy, at least fifteen users must have participated.
• Rollback and chat moderator nominations will last for one week. In which at least five users must have participated .
• Content moderator or discussions moderator requests will last for one week, and at least seven users must have participated.
• If a nomination does not reach the the needed number of support at the end of the relevant period, the nomination fails.

• 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 most likely not be given the user rights.
• After the time frame for the promotion the user is requesting for has passed, a bureaucrat or an administrator (depending on the proposed right) will read through the request, determine the community's consensus about whether the nominee should be promoted, and close the discussion. The discussion will then be closed. For the old nominations made on this page, please refer to this page Category:Requests for User Rights if successful.
• 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 commented yet.

Demotion system

Demotion requests are made by users who feel that a user with user rights is no longer capable or responsible enough to keep their rights. The resolution of the demotion nominations require the same rules as promotion nominations about the same rank. Demotion requests may not be removed once they have started.

Renewal system

If a user with user rights concludes the community needs to take a revoting to decide if he'll or she'll keep the current rights, the user would create an "Renewal" nomination. It'll operate the same as a promotion and a demotion but a renewal nomination is neutral; it lets the community re-decide. The resolution of the renewal nominations can only be made up by a user with user rights who wants the community to reassess if they should keep their user rights or remove them.  Renewals differ from demotions in that they are set up by the user with user rights for community reassessment as opposed to someone else.

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 or any other user right involves. Please read through Help:Administrators' how-to guide if you are not familiar with the role or read Help:User rights for more information about other rights.
• It is not recommended for users to jump directly to request for adminship or bureaucracy if they are not familiar with the rights that (Content moderation, discussion moderation, or rollback etc.) offer or with the proposed right itself. As it may cause some queries among the users.
• Being a good user is not sufficient to gain a User Right. Also, 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 etc. Only users who have served the wiki widely (on any subject) are recognized as good users should be nominated for higher rights such as moderation or adminship (those that have not demonstrated this through their work will have their nominations rejected quickly).
• Every nomination needs evidence to gain community's approval of any proposed rights. 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 lie, as without a potent source for your contributions, the request will immediately be rejected.
• Irrelevant comments (e.g. spamming or making a joke) to the requested rights are not permitted (not counting questions regarding the proposed right).
• Don't attempt to influence the discussion by promising to do something or act differently if you are successful.
• Be civil and respect other users' opinions.
• It is highly recommended 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.

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