RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Coelacanth0794

Coelacanth0794
Hello, everybody. I am Coelacanth0794, and I am requesting the additional user rights of System Manager (AKA sysop). Before voting, I do wish to please inform users, new or old, to read or re-read through the adminship guide on what to say or how to respond. I trust that you will ask specific questions I can happily answer or give detailed descriptions about something within your votes. I have been a part of this wiki family for just under three years, have currently slightly over 25,000 edits, and do most of my work fixing tidbits of information, reworking certain areas of articles, or doing general imagework. I can be found in Special:Chat and the Internet relay Chat. I am mostly known for generally non-specific work around the mainspace which may include templates an formatting, along with adding transparency to images, taking or retaking pictures with the orb of oculus, or obtaining newer versions of DIIs (Detailed Item Images) or inventory sprites. I wish to be given these rights due to my unwavering dedication to this wiki along with the time I’ve put into the rather over-inflated editcount and images. I plan to be more of a community-based assistant for the sort of work an administrator would do, such as deleting images/pages, closing threads, or removing disruptive people from chats or the recent changes. As I have mentioned before, I am rather active in the wiki chat, where, with requested assistance from some other users, I took on ChatHax, which allows me to be ‘pinged’ for a quicker summoning, so to speak. In that situation, I could handle a situation earlier on. I am also found within the IRC channel, which is less active (especially when it comes to disruptive behaviour in the channel). There as well I hope to be of some sort of use, although I admit I am reliant on Freenode, so some issues may arise out of that. One thing that will be relevant towards this request is the fact I ran a request for chat moderator a few months ago in July. The request for chat moderator failed mainly under the view of immaturity, which I have been working on proper behaviour and acting better around others. This RfA is not solely based off the RfCM. Along with the editcount and time spent improving articles, this request is mostly based on the amount of work I do on the wiki, not within chats (where I do tend to post a lot of images). One more thing I’d like to point out, I do feel that many other editors may see my small time between additional right requests as a sort of “power hunger” or rights collection; this is not the case. I did not feel I was not ready for a higher editing status. I have been encouraged within the past to start a request for adminship, and some other users have offered to nominate me, but have declined these. I hope that I may be seen as trustworthy enough, in editing or general chat, to be given these rights.

''I, Coelacanth0794, 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 tools because I realise that this is a serious offence. If the community finds that I have done so, my tools will be revoked, and in extreme cases I could be given a community ban. Signed,'' 13:00, October 17, 2012 (UTC).

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

I would most likely take part in anti-vandalism and deletion of spam/pages when it comes time to do so. Usually, I feel there ought to be more anti-vandalism page protection against IPs when there are multiple edits to pages, especially after a recent in-game update, but it seems around this time of year, things are slowing down due to more of the younger users (myself included) getting caught up with schoolwork. While there may be a lesser degree this sort of protection would be needed, I do feel it would be my additional duty to prevent devious attempts of vandalism on such pages under heavy traffic. This would also take some of the stress off the users who are busy gathering information about the update (such as pictures or quest guides) who may be constantly having their work removed or being edit-conflicted.

2. What have been your most helpful contributions to the RuneScape Wiki, and why?

I feel a large portion of my editing and notoriety of editing comes from my small-maintenance edits on articles (such as adding perimeters or cleaning up templates and tables), along with my imagework, which includes worn equipment retaking, detailed item images, NPC images, chatheads, inventory sprites, transparency, and more recently, feathered edges transparency 9which I also admit is not nearly as common). These are usually tasks others may not be willing to take the effort to do as opposed to something along the lines of creating a strategy guide or rewriting an article.

'''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?'''

I do admit I have had a number of small scuffles with a fair amount of other editors, such as Evil1888, Haidro and Psycho Robot. The ones that are much older tended to be more about disagreements or personal matters, while the newer ones are mostly about my behaviour and things I have done/have not done/done incorrectly. I would prefer to have these end on a positive note, which may not always happen, but I do try to keep up a positive view of other users, even if we have had a loud disagreement. I hope to try and remain calmer and more collected within these situations, or to be more willing to lean my opinion to be more flexible towards theirs.

4. Should this request be successful, which of the following would you also accept: Username highlight; IRC operator; Clan chat administrator?

I would not like any sort of name highlight. This may not sound professional, but I just feel plain silly having my name in green. I would like to accept the IRC operator, although I may have to work out something with some of the more experienced IRC leaders on using something aside from freenode. I am active enough in the IRC to feel the need to warrant this right. I do spend a decent amount in time within RuneScape, but I cannot say I pay any particular amount of attention towards the clan chat, at least opposed to the attention I pay towards the game itself or the other chats. While it may be suitable to see another user have such rights in case of other ranked users not being available or such, I do not think I am active enough within the clan chat to warrant a higher ranking.