Terraria Wiki:Admin and Bureaucrat Nominations


 * For previous nominations, see the archive.

This page is for nominations and discussion of potential new admins and bureaucrats. Please see Terraria Wiki:Administrators for more details.

=Nominations=

Support

 * 1) With activity by other admins (myself included, unfortunately) on the decline, I believe that it would be a good idea to think about who else would be suited to being an admin. To me, one of the users who comes readily to mind in consideration for this role is . Over the past year, he has been active on an almost daily basis in improving/creating large numbers of articles and engaging with the wiki's community in the forums, blog comments, and the news blog which he has taken it upon himself to maintain. His dedication to the wiki is readily apparent to those who have been here for any amount of time, and I thus nominate him to receive admin rights here. Oscuritaforze (talk) 01:44, November 18, 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) I think that having Swaggins as an administrator here will be a welcome addition to the wiki. He is very dedicated to actively contributing as much as he is able, and will offer some much needed support to the admin team. I have seen him grow significantly from his early days on the wiki, and it is my confident belief that he is ready for this role. SquazzilTalk 02:40, November 18, 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) Full support from myself regarding this promotion. TerrariamcSwaggins has been routinely and regularly helping improve the wiki, furthering the knowledge we share, and supporting the community as a whole (without any official request or mention, I might add &mdash; meaning this in the positive, initiative-related sense). I think we could only benefit from this going through, as both Oscuritaforze and myself have been less active than normal (more so lately than normal on my part, though I'm working on fixing that, pronto), both in editing and in presence; leaving the wiki basically admin-less more often than not. I've been looking at possible promotion nominations for a while now, and ol' mcSwaggins has caught my eye for the majority of that period of time.
 * 4) Swag's one of the best users I've ever met. Capable, efficient, passionate, friendly, he's got it all. This is finally here, and he's in his rightful place with it. Silver  (talk) 00:40, November 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * 5) I was waiting for this to happen, TerrariamcSwaggins has been giving his all for the wiki for so long that I don't even know why he wasn't made an admin earlier. This also fixes the problem that Forze and Pathos mentioned. Ratio et Veritas Hunited Talk page 03:59, November 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * 6) TerrariamcSwaggins is certainly one of the best users on this wiki, he helps out with the pages and helps with community, he definitely deserves the role of an Admin. Buggsy (talk) 07:13, November 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * 7) I give my full  on this since TerrariamcSwaggins since I know him, which is since he joined the wiki, has always tried his best to help out the wiki as best as he can. With this he runs the bugle, a great help to the wiki in both a fun and informative aspect. You can ask him about anything and he'll always be ready to help. He's fixed some quite big problems in the past, like the problem with Minearea as just an example. Slayer (talk) 17:40, November 20, 2014 (UTC)
 * 8)  terrariamcswaggins is nice so why not get him into admin ok look at how much I am support. ~ (hey wait I typed ~ and my signature didn't appear? look I am thiagovscoelho ok count that one for me)

Oppose

 * 1) It hurts to say this, but I'm going to have to oppose here. Swag is a great guy - he's a fine person, and dedicated - but he lacks diplomacy and tends to take a lot of control, often turning a wiki into something less free than it's really supposed to be. 652Graystripe Talk page Contributions Edit count 00:21, November 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) I would also have to oppose this decision. There are plenty of admins, and they are still fairly active, so I don't see the need for this particular promotion. In the past, there have been a few instances of controlling/abusive behavior that have made me wary of the prospect of Swaggins ever becoming an admin. I wouldn't trust him to be in such a position, to be quite frank, and I know there are other users (fellow chat moderators) that have expressed similar concerns to me outside of the Wiki. I really hope this doesn't go through. Kida155 (talk) 23:45, November 19, 2014 (UTC)

Comments
Gray &mdash; Would I be correct in assuming that what you are describing took place off-wiki? If so, I believe this is one of the cases where, according to ADMIN, we need to determine whether this is "useful data in reviewing a potential admin" or "a biased and distorted view that shouldn't affect this wiki". With this in mind, might I ask for some additional context here? Oscuritaforze (talk) 01:04, November 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd like to second that request; more context is definitely needed to see and judge the magnitude of the allegations made.

Kida &mdash; I currently see only two admins around here these days; Path and Forze. Both of them honestly admit to being on the decline, activity wise. (See their comments above in the "Support" section.)

Regarding my apparent "controlling/abusive behavior", would you mind pointing out those instances? I'd like to have a chance to examine the incidents and defend myself against the said accusations. Also, I'm hoping that the said instances aren't from many months ago; that'd be pretty silly to bring up, in my opinion. I've grown a lot since those first few months of my activity around here.

As for these other chat moderators, almost all the chat moderators currently active on this wiki support the nomination, so are you speaking of the inactive chat moderators? A little transparency would be appreciated.

Gray &mdash; I'm waiting for you to respond to Forze's request for clarity before offering my defense. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻Swaggins ~ ( The Terrarian Bugle ) ~ ( Contact me )┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) ~  02:07, November 20, 2014 (UTC)


 * I'like to touch on a few points here regarding admins and activity:
 * Dak47922 has also made less than 10 edits this year &mdash; more than 30% of which were only to his user page. (I do see Dak online quite often on Steam, o#nly sometimes playing though.)
 * Dratini17 has made no changes since December 2012, I think we can safely assume inactivity at this time.
 * Dzylon I've only seen online on three occasions this year, making 21 changes on those occasions collectively. (Barely any activity visible on Steam as well. Which also saddens me, he is the only other current Bureaucrat aside from Oscuritaforze and myself.)
 * Kiruwagaka hasn't been online at all since December 2012.
 * Koggeh has made only 12 edits this year, I also rarely see him online. (I think this is because of his IRL status, if I recall correctly.)
 * Leet-Pete has made no changes since September last year &mdash; I think we can assume inactivity here too.
 * Mathmagician hasn't made an edit since December last year, so we can safely say he's inactive at this time. (I've seen even less activity from Math, which saddens me considerably, he does an amazing job as an admin, only slightly more thorough than TerrariamcSwaggins.
 * Port5 has made four edits this year in March, any previous to that were made in October 2013. He's barely seen online, therefore I think we can assume inactivity here too.
 * Zenofire has made no changes since 2011, it might be an idea to consider removing admin rights after this long &mdash; I do think he could be considered most inactive (at this time), for sure
 * I'm more than happy to hear about the other reasons that anyone might have about the considered promotion for TerrariamcSwaggins, but the activity of the "current" admins is there for all to see.