RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Evil1888

Evil1888
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Previous nomination

Evil1888 is one of the most all-around competent users on the wiki. He's a strong anti-vandal, is active in many parts of the community, and is very mature. He does a lot of the things that everyone knows needs to get done, but nobody really wants to do, and always bugs people like me to fix code things that we don't understand. Evil has a concrete use for sysop tools, can be trusted with them, and is active many hours a day on IRC and the wiki. 00:52, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

''I, Evil1888, accept this nomination for adminship. I have read the policies concerning administrators. I realise that this nomination may fail. If I do get community consensus, I promise not to abuse my powers because I realise 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,'' 03:50, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Questions for the nominee
1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?

I would a lot of maintenance such as deletion, clean up of the Monobook parts of MediaWiki, and editing fully-protected templates. I would certainly do the anti-vandal parts of adminship like blocking and protection but would like to focus on maintenance. 03:50, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

2. What are your best contributions to the RuneScape Wiki, and why?

Maintenance. Some find it boring, I find it fun.

'''3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?'''

Ikin. See Forum:Block Ikin. I got really upset from at as the server was very needed for my HTML class. I dealt with it by ignoring some of what Ikin has said since her block ended. I'll hopefully not have to deal with DoS attacks again, but if I do I'll have PeerBlock started to ignore the offending IP addresses and/or range. 03:50, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Additional questions (asked by the community if necessary)
'''Do you look for changes in the code of the MediaWiki software? That is, have you ever used the Wikia TRAC/SVN code-bases and understand them?''' 06:42, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Discussion
Support - 00:52, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Support - He is good at what he does, he will make use of the tools, and he can be trusted with them. 03:57, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Evil is not particularly intelligent. I think he would make a poor administrator. Oppose. 04:13, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Support - Mediawiki requires a new caretaker to improve it and weed stuff out. 05:18, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Pending - I will be keeping an eye on this RfA for a little while. If, as it progresses, Evil proves that he is able to avoid arguing with everyone that opposes or disagrees with him (as this is the reason I opposed his last RfA), I will support. 05:57, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Support - I trust him and having someone good with coding as well as still being an active anti-vandal can only be good. 06:30, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Support - Was on the verge of nominating him myself... I hate you cook :( 08:30, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Support - Per above (as long as you don't forget to sign things). 10:16, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Oppose - Per his actions when something doesn't go his way. A few months back, I blocked an IP that shouldn't have been blocked after he said that it shouldn't be blocked. After that, he suddenly became very... irritated, and continually pestered me over it for the next few hours until the block was removed. During this time he was insulting, immature and on the verge of trolling. Because I was at fault in this case as well, I decided to put it behind me as an isolated incident on both of our parts. Then it happened again.

A couple of months ago, Andorin blocked him for 22 seconds for editconflicting him. Andorin is one of the old-fashion admins who wasn't around for the whole joke-block drama, so he didn't know that he was doing something wrong. However, instead of just taking this as it was, Evil decided to pester him over ruining his perfect record. Now I wouldn't even be opposing over this if he had moved on, but he didn't. Over the next two weeks he pestered Andorin on the IRC, making rude remarks to him and being insulting.

I cannot support a candidate who is unable to keep a cool head when it matters most. Sorry. Ajraddatz 14:27, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Support - Like Ajr said he didn't stay cool in two situations where he actually should, but I think this is just because he doesn't like injustice, which is actually something good. This will make him an even better admin. 22:55, February 9, 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't see any injustice from Andorin, just a joke. And I wouldn't like someone in a position of more power if they don't have even a slight sense of humor. That could end badly. 22:59, February 9, 2011 (UTC)
 * Once wouldn't have been bad, and twice wouldn't have been if it were many months ago. However, one was 5 months ago and the other was two... that shows that nothing has changed. Ajraddatz 23:15, February 9, 2011 (UTC)