RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Kudos 2 U

Kudos 2 U
Although recently new to the RuneScape wikia community, this user has time and time again proven themselves as both a mature and very resourceful user. They've contributed to many mainspace page's, and is responsible for a many of our updated HD images. As an entrusted user of Rollback rights they have reverted many vandals and is proficient in editing grammar/spelling and updating the information contained in this wikia, with now over 2000 edits. It is with this, I nominate Kudos 2 U as a future sysops.

''I, Kudos 2 U, accept this nomination for adminship. I have read the policies concerning administrators. I realize that this nomination may fail. If I do get community consensus, I promise not to abuse my powers because I realize that this is a serious offence and if the community finds that I have done so, my powers will be revoked and in extreme cases I could be given a community ban. Signed, Kudos 2 U  Talk! Edit count! Contribs! 01:18, 22 December 2008 (UTC).

Discussion
Support - As Nominee 01:15, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Support I took some real time to review Kudos edits, and was going to a nomination myself till I realized hes only been here for 6 weeks. Now, please understand, I personally do not think that 6 weeks is to short a time (hence my support). But I do think way too many people will look at length of time instead of the actual contributions. so PLEASE, take 5 minutes and look at the contribs. See what Kudos is doing on the wiki before you cast your thoughts. I believe he would really help this wiki. (sorry for the "he" if your not Kudos).--Degenret01 02:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I am a guy. [[Image:Rollbackcrown.PNG‎]] Kudos 2 U Talk! Edit count! Contribs! 03:12, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Support - Very constructive and helpful editor and has not abused rollback privileges. Kudos would make a great admin. 03:14, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Pending - Candidates should be well-known, trusted, and helpful contributors to the wiki. There is a reason that there is an immense hesitance to give sysop powers to a new user. On here and on other wikis there have been people who have greatly contributed to the project in a very short time and would have made good use of the sysop powers but once receiving those powers, turned quite ugly and hurt the project more than helped. Looking at the nominees contributions, there's no question that he would benefit having sysop powers just by all the reverting and reporting vandalism he does. Moreover, my gut feeling based on his contributions and comments lead me to believe that he could possibly keep a cool head under pressure. But there hasn't been a case yet of a new user raging at him for nominating their article or image for deletion or having to deal with an implacable editor. And regardless of this, quite simply, I do not support or oppose someone because of what my gut tells me. Looking at his contributions, one actual area of concern is that I don't know how well versed he is in regards to policy since I've only seen him discuss one policy issue. I'm really conflicted about this and am not leaning in either direction. I will therefore wait for others to comment to see if there is any viewpoint or factor that I haven't properly considered. And if anyone wishes to respond directly to my comment, you are of course my guest and I welcome your views.-- 03:41, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - If a new user raged at me for nominating their article or image for deletion I would simply tell them what policies it violated and inform them about the policies we have on the wiki, and if their article was say a "fake quest" I would tell them to create it on a user sub-page and give them instructions on how to do so. If it was a personal image, I would tell them that it should be uploaded on a third-party source such as photobucket, imageshack, or tinypic, and if they didn't know how to do so I would try to help them. However, you are correct in the fact that it hasn't happened yet. [[Image:Rollbackcrown.PNG‎]] Kudos 2 U Talk! Edit count! Contribs! 05:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Possible Support - Good contributions although I will have to take sometime to think about it. Best of luck. Excellent use of Rollback privileges. , 06:04, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Oppose - I don't think that you are experienced enough as you are only active for a month, started in November 2008.. 09:16, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Just because I'm new, doesn't mean I'm inexperienced. I've gotten over 2200 edits in just 6 or so weeks, which I think is a lot and must mean I'm more...experienced... than an editor who's been around for a year but only has 400-500 edits, yes? I've read all the policies we have on the wiki and I've followed them. I've been active in one or two community discussions (excluding RFAs for which I post in all active ones that I see) and I give my input. I'm not sure how I'm inexperienced, and I think my edits (or at least my edits in the past 2-4 weeks) say that I am experienced. [[Image:Rollbackcrown.PNG‎]] Kudos 2 U Talk! Edit count! Contribs! 07:11, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Pending Per Diberville 16:54, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Kodus, it's not about edit count, it's about edit quality 07:28, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I know it's supposedly "not about edit count" (if so, why does everyone reject people with lower edit counts of say 400-500 even if they've been here for a long time and make very good quality edits?) but my edits are of good quality. If you believe they aren't, please explain. [[Image:Rollbackcrown.PNG‎]] Kudos 2 U Talk! Edit count! Contribs! 08:06, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Weak support - Another hard one. Before this RFA was created, I had noticed that Kudos had done a lot of good anti-vandal work, and thought to myself that he would make a good admin. I held off nominating him myself as he was new, and may have encountered opposition during an RFA because of that, which indeed he has. I can see he is the right sort of material, but this RFA should have been a few months down the line. 13:29, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Strong Support - I only joined today, but I have seen many posts by Kudos 2 U and have witnessed his community presence. Neoinr 13:41, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Support - just enough for me to type one, after all hes not far from 1k of edits  Btzkillerv has entered the building!   13:58, 23 December 2008 (UTC)


 * You are not longer then 3 months active, sorry, but my vote will stay oppose. 16:02, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Pending I'm not sure about giving you my support. So far I've seen that most of your mainspace edits are you using your rollback rights to correct other people's mistakes. I'm not saying that doing so is a bad thing but I've noticed that (sometimes) you don't use it for obvious vandalism. But it's good that you update exchange prices, stop vandals and welcome new users. The only problem is that I haven't really seen any of your "own" edits. By your "own", I mean like creating an article, or adding information to an article. It may be that I missed them though, heh. 13:53, 24 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't use my rolback rights for obvious vandalism? What? That's the only time I use it....I use "undo" to revert people's mistakes or good faith edits. Didn't you just see Puremexican say "excellent use of rollback privileges"? Examples :here here, here, here, and here. I've created some articles, but mostly stub-class articles such as: Guard Captain, Ugthanki & onion, Ugthanki & tomato, Fremennik Sea Boots 2 (I created it, yet I didn't do much of the work on it as it stands today), Ridgeley, Archer (Burthorpe) and some others. For my "own" edits like adding information to an article check out: here, here, here, here, and here. I know that those are relatively minor, but I've still done them. [[Image:Rollbackcrown.PNG‎]] Kudos 2 U Talk! Edit count! Contribs! 17:35, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Cool down. I did not say that you did not use your rollback rights properly at all. Also, I did not say that you did not make any of your "own" edits at all. I said I might have missed them. No need to flare up and bite my head off....And yes I did see Puremexican say "Excellent use of rollback priveleges". Repeating myself, "I might have missed them." Don't get so worked up. Calebchiam 03:59, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Can you give me one or two examples of where I used my rollback rights for not reverting vandalism? (that I didn't correct immediately, of course)? [[Image:Rollbackcrown.PNG‎]] Kudos 2 U Talk! Edit count! Contribs! 07:10, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Well there was a recent one regarding the article, Yurkolgokh, where you may/may not have used your rollback rights. I was online at the time and was reading the article (after it got edited by that IP address). I'll just quote the information that the IP address user added: "It is possible that the symbol represents two buttocks, with flatuence being emitted between them." I did find it rather humorous, but did not come to the conclusion that it was vandalism because it did make some sense. I was thinking of creating a trivia section and putting that there (with some rephrasing of course). Because if you see the image and see what Yurkolgokh translates to, he/she does have a point. Then you reverted it back to the previous revision instead. I'm not sure if you used the rollback button since I haven't really found a way to tell. I didn't add that part back afterwards since you reverted that edit and I wasn't sure whether it should be counted as vandalism. Anyway, I may be wrong, but since you asked to give an example, I will. Calebchiam 09:39, 25 December 2008 (UTC)