RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Liquidhelium

Liquidhelium
First RfA

Liquidhelium is a very helpful person. The first time I looked at his userpage was when he beat me to reverting vandalism. I first looked at him as a competitor, someone who was beating me to edits, whenever he was on. Soon after, I realized, it's not about who does it, but about it getting done. Since then, I've started to view him as a friend. When he did his last RfA, I didn't know him very well. I just knew he was a fast editor, but he didn't seem to be ready for sysop then. Recently however, I've been seeing (and admiring) his work more and more. On many occasions, I'll see the "Yoshirocks8 has logged out.", only to see him start editing like a madman on here. He's willing to give up his time and energy to make this wiki that much better. He makes a real difference to the wiki through his counter-vandalism work and just general improvements on articles. He's a responsible and dependable person. I believe he could make very good use of the tools given to sysops. 20:39, March 29, 2010 (UTC)

''I, Liquidhelium, 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,'' 21:02, March 29, 2010 (UTC).

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

I intend to participate mainly in anti-vandal work. Even with the influx of administrators that we've had, from Rich Farmbrough's and Stelercus's passed RfAs, and from the administrators that have returned, the CVU is still often neglected by administrators who do not see a vandalism report in the RecentChanges, thus increasing the time that it takes for a vandal to be blocked. Oftentimes I've had to log on in-game to coax certain administrators to check the CVU. Since I stalk the RecentChanges frequently, I feel that I would be able to combat vandalism more effectively with administrator tools.

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

My best contributions to the Wiki are mainly anti-vandal ones. I feel like that is the area that I've made the most impact in. I'm not the best writer, so I do not frequently create articles from scratch. However, I do look for ways to increase the ease of managing vandals, such as the charm log vandalism templates that I recently proposed.

'''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've had a few conflicts in the past. Many have occured on controversial subjects with little chance of change by either side. Whenever I feel that the discussion has become overly fiery, I simply remove myself from the discussion and go do something else to cool down, such as play RS, listen to music, watch TV, get some fresh air, etc. I try not to let my emotions get the better of me.

Additional questions (asked by the community if necessary)

 * 1) Please forgive me if I am not using this properly. While I support this, I think that one very large question needs to be asked here; how would gaining sysop tools change anything? Blocking the occasional vandal does not warrant these, so please enlighten me as to how you think that having access to these tools will improve the wiki. No offense intended, but this is something that really needs to start being brought up in RfAs here.

Discussion
Support - As Nominator. 20:39, March 29, 2010 (UTC)

Support - It did not take long at all for him to grow as much as was required for adminship from the last RFA. I can't see him abusing the tools at all, but I can defiantly see him using them for the betterment of the community, be it vandal bashing or the deletion of pages. 20:54, March 29, 2010 (UTC)

Support - I know this is quite soon after his last RfA, but it's clear he is the right person for the job. He reverts vandalism constantly, had made a ton of minor improvements to our wiki, and is a valuable voice in community discussions. Besides this, I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've been online when liquid was not. He will obviously be a great asset in terms of keeping up with the CVU and its vandal reports. He's a tireless contributor who can make use of the tools. Full support. -- 21:49, March 29, 2010 (UTC)

Support- He definatly desrves it. 05:44, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Support - While I would have preferred for him to wait a little before another nomination, I still support this. His answers show a good grasp and understanding of the extra tools sysops get, and I trust his judgment as well. I definitely see him making good use of the tools. A good candidate. 06:10, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Support- I've definitely seen your work a lot around here and I support you 100%. Lil cloud 9 09:55, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Per Aburnett, Coaxing? O.O 14:43, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Per everyone else, although he does not follow the style guide and does not admit he is called Liquid helm. -- 14:51, March 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * That's because I'm not Liquid helm. <.< 14:52, March 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * You're such a liar, Liquid Helm. >:( 18:56, March 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * <_< I am NOT Liquid helm. 21:54, April 6, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Lololololololololololo helm! Per all. 18:44, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Per Steler and Aburnett, and this is probably the shortest instance between a failed RfA and a (probably) successful one. :o 18:57, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Its to soon (Hover over the words) 19:01, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Support - An excellent contributor who reverts vandalism and participates in discussions often. His large amount of user talk page edits shows that he is either very friendly, welcomes new users, or both. I trust him to make good and full use of administrative tools. 21:00, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Support - You're a very good contributor, with some great community contribs. More than 100 CVU edits <3. 21:18, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Per pretty much everyone. 22:19, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

Support - One of those ideal sysop candidates. 02:51, March 31, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Liquidhelium is a great contributor. He's very active about vandalism, and he really participates in talk pages a lot, which shows that he is very sociable. 03:07, March 31, 2010 (UTC)

support - per all above 18:53, March 31, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Per above, however, be sure that you actually use these tools on a regular basis. Ajraddatz Talk 15:52, April 1, 2010 (UTC)

Support - You're active in counter vandalism, maitenance, and the community. 00:29, April 3, 2010 (UTC)

Noob - urrr... I mean Support. 14:04, April 3, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Per all. Liquid is a very straightforward type of person, and thus will help him become a great sysop. 15:08, April 3, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Per all. You are a very nice person and a VANDAL PWNER!!!! You are always beating me by that ONE second when it comes to vandalism repoting! Anyway, I have FULL Supprot for you. -- 17:49, April 3, 2010 (UTC)

Support - It has been very soon since the last RFA however. 03:26, April 5, 2010 (UTC)

extreamly strong oppose - it seems as though where ever he goes, pointless spam, joke blocks, etc will follow. 22:07, April 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * You can't blame him for the actions of other people. As he can't block anyone, I think you should bring up a yew grove thread if you have a problem with sysops, but leave that out of this.   22:35, April 6, 2010 (UTC)

Neutral - While your edits are numerous and your points made well, I see you have a habit with talk pages. Socializing might they be, they are (in my mind) quite minor edits of loquacious spamming (such as 3i+1 and you). While I know that this RFA doesn't have a slim chance in failing, it does bring up a few points. One is why have your second (even though you were nominated) request not even a month after your first request. Secondly the massive edits you have gained make me think you are trying to be a career wikian, that being someone who spends the majority of their time editing a wiki/wiki's during the course of a day over many days (I have seen this said on Wikipedia, but cannot find am actual entry on it). Three is as I pointed out earlier, too much spam between you and other users' talk pages (also worth noting is that many talk edits befall User:Iiii I I I's talk page). Those are the only three reasons I cannot support you. 22:30, April 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * People's talk pages are their own space, and they may do whatever they want on them, so long as they don't break any other policies.  22:32, April 6, 2010 (UTC)