Terraria Wiki:Admin and Bureaucrat Nominations

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

As the first stage of gathering nominations is a request from the current admins for new suggestions, this page will be protected except when the nomination process is active.

=Nominations for February 2012=

The Pathogen - Admin Nomination

 * Please remember to sign your signature using four tildes (~­­~). You are encouraged to post detailed reasoning as to how you feel about The Pathogen's candidacy, and his eligibility for adminship.

Support

 * I'd like to extend my nomination of The Pathogen for adminship. He's been consistently active for months, and has made thousands of valuable edits, not to mention the countless changes he's made in the template namespace. He has counteracted vandalism with a passion, and has been nothing but helpful to users in his comments. Having been promised promotion to administrator twice in the past months, he has displayed no impatience, nor has he faltered in dedication. He possesses advanced knowledge of wiki markup, and has proven himself to be reasonably proficient in HTML. I see no reason why he shouldn't be promoted.


 * I've seen The Pathogen around for the longest time, and he's very active. After reading the Admin and Bureaucrat Policy, I think The Pathogen just about meets the criteria perfectly. LumpZ 09:01, February 26, 2012 (UTC)


 * The terraria helper2 07:16, February 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * I as well see Path as a grand choice. Koggeh

Oppose
The Pathogen doesn't seem to have the ability to stay impartial and isn't willing to try and find out about it before holding it against someone. Therefore a oppose this, little more detail below in my neutral section. Gracey91 (talk • contribs • count) 07:26, February 27, 2012 (UTC)

Neutral
I feel this user would make a good canidate but many of the things they have done causes me to quetion how they will function as an admin on the wiki. Such as i have seen the pathogen making test edits to widely used templates that caused the template stop showing all infomation, he has also added things that make no sense and i'm assuming has forgotten to remove them. I also don't like how he reacts to vandals and people who complain, telling people to GTFO is not something an admin should say to anyone. That said if the user is willing to think about what they are doing a bit more like with the test edits and if they are willing to take the time to learn more about media wiki software i will support this. Pathogen i have nothing agaisnt you, you have always been a great help its just the very occasional questionable edits that concerns me. Gracey91 (talk • contribs • count) 08:05, February 26, 2012 (UTC)


 * If you want to be nominated, people are expected to bring up your flaws. Also don't bring up things hero came up with, you never even asked me about that. I think that clearly shows you don't listen to both sides before making a decision, not a good trait for an admin to have. I presented you with a clear diff that shows you completely disabled all parameters for the template, that is a crazy edit that does a lot of damage to all pages the template is on. Trying to claim i have done the same is a lie. The switch function you added to the monsters infobox is completely wrong, that isn't how the switch function works and what you have added, i can't get to do anything. You shouldn't be making these little test edits to templates on the wiki, if you have to run off IRL thats your problem and the wiki shouldn't have to suffer since you were to lazy to do the work else where then copy over a 100% correct edit. If you read my first message you will see i clearly stated i would be willing to support, i just wanted you to realize what your doing a bit more and to think about it. The fact you choose not to even ask me about that picture and yet you hold it against me shows you aren't a candidate who can be impartial and therefore wouldn't make a good admin. I am changing my vote to oppose as the user clearly can't be impartial and isn't willing to get both sides of a story. Gracey91 (talk • contribs • count) 07:24, February 27, 2012 (UTC)


 * That edit was made a long time ago, Gracey. Long before I gained the knowledge of templates I now have. Also, changing your vote to opposed is simply because of the reason I stated on your talk page. I'm not impartial in this matter, as you aren't either. I heard both sides before making my decision, and as I said before, you can ask Math or Dzy about it to confirm it. I actually have small problems in the family that require fixing from time to time, thank you. I'd appreciate it if you respected that rather than trying to make a joke out of it. Again, I'm quite offended by what you're saying here, and I won't tolerate such judgement. You're doubly making a point that isn't true, because I knew both sides of the story before I decided on my PoV. I never once sided with Hero, nor with you, I chose my own point of view, which I still sit at.


 * I changed to oppose since you can't get over the past and choose to bring it up for nothing. Your further words have reinforced that decision on my part. "I chose not to ask you anything because I didn't judge it worth my time. I know you have a problem with me, it's blatantly obvious, it's a lot easier if you just admit it, too." Is this how you plan to act as an admin too? Will you judge it worth your time to do your job and resolve issues or will you just ignore them and bring them up against the users when you need? I didn't make any jokes, if you did it in a sandbox it wouldn't be an issue as you could do what ever you need to do when ever with it causing issues on the wiki, thats what i meant. Gracey91 (talk • contribs • count) 13:01, February 27, 2012 (UTC)


 * I take your statement of "if you have to run off IRL thats your problem and the wiki shouldn't have to suffer since you were to lazy to do the work else where then copy over a 100% correct edit" as a bit of an insult and joke on my own family problems. If anyone can't get over the past, it's yourself. You brought up the dispute you had with Hero, despite the fact that I did not take a side in the matter. My evidence on that fact can be simply found here. The reason I didn't ask you anything was because I knew I'd get a biased answer. I would only ask if I was certain to receive an unbiased answer.

Comments
Mathmagician ( talk ♥ blog ) 20:02, February 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * Pathogen, regarding your nomination, I wanted to ask you a few questions and invite you to reply to them. I will of course have more to say soon, but for now I wanted to hear more from you.
 * 1) What is your favorite type of edit that you like to make on the wiki? As an admin, would you expect to continue playing a huge role in making contributions of this nature?
 * 2) Do you play any roles in the Terraria community outside of this wiki that might be relevant to your nomination?
 * 3) (Related to Gracey's claims that you are sometimes rude to other users or sometimes do not act with impartiality) How do you view yourself as a conflict mediator?
 * 4) Regarding the point of test edits, templates may sometimes take hours or even a day to update across the site when multiple edits are made--longer for some users due to caching. Making a test edit (even if reverted immediately) to a template can adversely affect dozens or hundreds of pages across the wiki, and these pages can be viewed by thousands of people before the reversion goes live. Do you understand that test edits to high use templates are not acceptable? Also, this concept applies to MediaWiki files, scripts, the abuse filter etc. across the site--features that you will have access to as an admin. Improper edits to these kinds of things can adversely affect the wiki--even if one's intentions were good. Test edits must always be made in an appropriate test environment, and if you are not sure what that environment is, you should ask ^^. Is this agreeable to you going forward? (I'm not trying to say anything about the past, I'm just talking about how you will act as an admin.)


 * I fear it may be too late to successfully reply to these now, but I shall do so anyway, so that my intentions may be made public.


 * 1. My favorite type of edit would likely be Template reformats, or grammatical restructures, such as full sentence/paragraph rewrites. As an admin, I would definitely see myself continuing to make those sorts of edits, as well as all the others I make.


 * 2. I do sometimes offer my aid to members of the Terraria community who need help both in-game and out of game (while still in relation to Terraria). Though I play no big part on TerrariaOnline, nor in the modding community of Terraria.


 * 3. In the case that a conflict arises, I'd consider myself quite well-suited to the task of resolving it. I regularly solve fights and conflicts IRL, as well as on forums around the web. I'm usually an impartial person, regardless of the circumstances, but because of the accusations I've had against me, I temporarily lost my composure. This will not happen again.


 * 4. I made those edits with the knowledge that they may affect users across the wiki community, that I will not deny. Now, however; I use the ForTesting wiki to make my test edits. In addition, I'd also like to say that some of the site-wide problems that have been caused by my edits were because of partially-completed sub-templates, such as an improperly closed bracket in a coin template (one example that I recall), those were fixed as soon as they were noticed. I'm glad I was asked this, as I wanted to put forward my thoughts and evidence about and on the matter.

Staff comment
For this first round of nominations with the new process, we really need people who are as uncontroversial as possible. The Pathogen, I see that you have done a great deal of good work on the wiki, which is a massive plus towards you being an admin in the future - so although I'm going to veto your nomination in this round, let's keep your name in the hat for next time :) - sannse http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 03:22, February 28, 2012 (UTC)

Support
Koggeh
 * Dak47922 is an active veteran member of the community with his first edit being on 9/22/2011 (September 22, 2011). He helps remove vandalism & has been given rollback in which he has had for some time now. He acts as admins should, as he is polite & well mannered. He has some skills that may be very valuable to the admin team, in particular, if you check his blog, you'll see that he's developing an android app about Terraria. As well as being the creator of http://terrariacreations.yolasite.com/.

Comments
Mathmagician ( talk ♥ blog ) 20:02, February 27, 2012 (UTC) Mathmagician ( talk ♥ blog ) 20:02, February 27, 2012 (UTC) Dak47922 talk contrib count 01:19, February 28, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey Koggeh, thanks for adding your nomination. I know I asked this of you in chat, but I just wanted to publicly add here that I've asked you to expand your nomination a bit. One sentence leaves something to be desired. A full paragraph is needed to explain to readers what Dak has done to help the wiki and why he is being nominated for admin. Please expand your nomination as soon as you are able to. Thanks!
 * Dak, I'd like to ask you a few questions, please reply to them when you can. (Some of this information is related to things I've seen written on your profile page, but I want this to be discussed here on this page as part of your nomination.)
 * 1) Why do you have interest in being an admin on this wiki?
 * 2) What kinds of edits have you most enjoyed making here on the wiki, and would you expect to continue making these kinds of contributions as an admin?
 * 3) What role do you play in the Terraria community outside of this wiki? I have heard that you are the creator of a Terraria website and are developing an Android App! Can you explain a little further?
 * 4) Can you explain briefly what specific skills you have that may be valuable to the admin team?
 * I have had some time to think about your questions and below are my answers:
 * 1) I am interested in becoming an admin because I could offer a lot to this wiki and I feel the community in time would come to appreciate my contributions. As an admin the additional power I would receive would be put towards making this wiki the best I can possibly be.
 * 2) The kind of edits I enjoy making the most are edits against vandalism. Preventing vandalism ensures that the information on this wiki is accurate and will ultimately inform visitors and readers. I also like edits that I am semi-unfamiliar with. For example a while ago I changed the Bats page into a disambiguation page. After learning how to do this I am now able to do it just by memory. If I become an admin I am certain that I will continue to make such edits.
 * 3) This one is a tough one! As stated above I am the creator of Terraria Creations. The aim of of this site is to provide a place where people can share some of the their creations that they made in Terraria whether it be a building, pixel art, or whatever you can think of! I am also in the process of compiling a list of guides on my website from various sources around the internet. I have also developed a toolbar that will keep my users up to date when ever they browse the web. As stated I have been developing an android app that allows users to view news, videos and more all from one convenient place. All of this has been done for non-profit. I don't earn anything from these.
 * 4) The skills that I think will be the most useful will be my knowledge of HTML, XHTML, PHP, and JS. Also my love for Terraria in general will help a aswell. Once I set my mind to something I see it through to the end.

Mathmagician - Bureaucrat Nomination

 * Please remember to sign your signature using four tildes (~­­~). You are encouraged to post detailed reasoning as to how you feel about Mathmagician's candidacy, and his eligibility for bureaucracy.

Support

 * Most, if not all of you can speak for Mathmagician's dedication and mediation skills. Even during the recent nomination conflict, Mathmagician maintained an objective stance and attempted to bring about an agreement for all involved. Also to be spoken of are his skills in wiki markup, CSS, JS, and HTML; not to mention his vast improvements to the wiki's abuse filter. Even when his adminship was revoked, he remained calm and cooperative. I can think of no better man for this position.


 * I fully support Dzylon's nomination here. Math's dedication goes without saying, and he's also one of the most knowledgeable editors here on the wiki, both in terms of formatting and knowledge of Terraria in general. He always keeps his composure, and as such would be a perfect choice for the Terraria Wiki's next bureaucrat.

Comments
Thank you for the nomination. I think Dzylon overstates my skills a bit here (for example, I do not really know JS). I appreciate the thoughts here though ^^. My feeling is that the wiki really needs admins at present, and so I would like to focus on the admin nominations, as I see them as more important. But if others wish to speak about my bureaucrat nomination, I will certainly participate in the discussion. Mathmagician ( talk ♥ blog ) 06:58, February 28, 2012 (UTC)