RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Thebrains222

Thebrains222
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Since I joined the wiki, I've seen Brains' name in just about every discussion, nomination, and history I've looked at. He is a highly skilled user - with an impressive 11,000 edits (with 3000 in the mainspace), he has shown his proficiency in manual editing. He also has proved his ability to control both an AWB account and a fully-fledged bot. In addition, he has expressed an interest in taking more of a managing role in the community, as shown by his recent RfR and RfET, so I believe he would do an excellent job as an administrator, and I wish Brains the best of luck with his nomination.

''I 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,'' 00:22, January 19, 2011 (UTC).

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

If granted the tools I intend to work in a variety of areas, assisting users with various tasks through the IRC, Administrative requests page as well as other avenues, mainly consensus determination, and counter-vandalism. I also wish to assist with file and page deletions/maintenance. I think the fact that I am in the IRC (as well as the CVN channel) for most, if not all my active hours is an advantage which will allow users to quickly contact me to perform administrative tasks. As stated above, I expect a lot of my intended administrative work will be performing and assisting with counter-vandalism as the main sysop - and likely the sole sysop - during hours where there are basically no admins around. Some of you may say, "He doesn't have many CVU edits!", but that is a combination of often asking for blocks in the IRC, as well as the smaller amount of vandalism that occurs during my hours.

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

I think some of my best work would be the background maintenance I work with everyday. This helps the Wiki run more smoothly as well as preventing minor and trivial issues from building up into a major maintenance problem. On the topic of maintenance, I suggested and created the Page maintenance page, which helps users view and comment on the many page maintenance requests we have. One of the things that have affected a majority of users is probably starting the discussion for our new Events Team, and even though I have not made it into the team, I am very happy that I helped bring regular events to our community. But this is not the place to praise myself, so I'll leave it at that.

'''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?'''

As a regular human being with over a years participation on the Wiki, I would be lying to say I have not had disagreements and conflicts with other users. Most of my disagreements have mainly been trivial matters, with both participants walking away with nothing more than a slightly bruised ego. I have also had a few disagreements with Andrew over the past months, but these have been cleared up relatively quickly. I think that is all, I seriously do not recall anything that would amount to a heated argument.

Additional questions (asked by the community if necessary)
'''You have said that there are very few administrators around your timezone. How have you dealt with vandals when there were no adminstrators online, and how will that change if you are made an administrator?'''  10:51, January 20, 2011 (UTC)

Yes, it is very true that there are not enough adminstrators active around my timezone, a situation made worse by the retirement of the few that were there. During the multiple occurances when there were no sysops anywhere on the wiki and vandals decided to strike, I simply continued to revert any vandalism that appeared in the CVN while watching Recent Changes, the Clan Chat and the IRC for any sysops who could block the vandals. Of course, if granted the tools, I would be able to deal with any future occurances of vandalism and remove the delay between blocks where a vandal has been allowed to vandalise with no one to block them. 11:38, January 20, 2011 (UTC)

Discussion
Support - As nom. 16:33, January 18, 2011 (UTC)

Question - Yeah, Brains is an excellent user. His edits are nice. Been there, done that. But, the question is, how experienced in countervandalism is he? I don't recall seeing him bash vandals that much. 16:39, January 18, 2011 (UTC)
 * You know, an admin can do other things than blocking... 22:01, January 18, 2011 (UTC)
 * I think you're asleep when I work in counter-vandalism most often, I suggest you speak to Andorin, he's around when I nag him for blocks and stuff. 00:00, January 19, 2011 (UTC)

Strong Support - I don't even need to think twice, he resides in a rare timezone which is beneficial for the wiki during nightimes in America/Europe, he created arguably one of the most useful bots we have, and he has consistently worked hard for the wiki. 17:11, January 18, 2011 (UTC)
 * I misread that as "he is arguably one of the most useful bots we have".  22:35, January 22, 2011 (UTC)

Support - Could use the tools. 17:30, January 18, 2011 (UTC)

Support - Very nice edits and involvement with the wikia (Defining Anonymous Users for example) 22:19, January 18, 2011 (UTC)

Oppose - Nice guy? Yeah, but sometimes I worry that he doesn't exactly know what he's talking about in certain Yew Grove discussions. An admin kinda needs to, especially when determining consensus etc... 23:08, January 18, 2011 (UTC)
 * Could you give us a recent example please? 00:00, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * Could you stay out of this please? Ajraddatz 00:02, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * We shouldn't have to go digging through contributions for everything. That isn't the point of RfAs. If someone has an opinion, they state it, and if you don't agree with it, fine, but it isn't your place to argue. 00:17, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * I haven't been arguing, I have politely requested that you provide an example. Aside from just having an RfA, I also want to see how I could improve in future, so please could you give me some examples where I don't appear to know what I have been talking about, just post it on my talk. 00:25, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * Even if you weren't then, now you are... Ajraddatz 00:25, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, now Andrew can have opinions and no one can argue that... That's fair isn't it? Sarcasm aside, you need evidence, you can't just come on here, accuse a person of this and that and then refuse to give evidence. It just shows that you may be lying. I find it rather ironic that the both of you seem to be pretty adamant on not letting 222 have a replying say on his own RfA when the two of you, Andrew especially, all you did was try and counter-argue all the opposition's points on your own RfAs. 09:31, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * I think that, if you were to look back at both of our RfAs, you'd find that that isn't true. An RfA is a place where the community can discuss the eligibility of a candidate for adminship, not where a candidate can argue themselves into the rights. Ajraddatz 15:25, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * You must seriously be blind then... As 222 requested, I won't comment on anything further. 16:42, January 19, 2011 (UTC)

Stop insulting people without knowing what the hell you're talking about. 23:25, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * Ajr/Andrew are right. Go take a look at my three RfAs if you want an example. RfAs are quite different from the YG. 21:28, January 22, 2011 (UTC)

Neutral - Could use the tools, but he isn't all too active, he can get a little worked up, and he hasn't created anything noteworthy which I could consider supporting the RfA. 00:01, January 19, 2011 (UTC)

Oppose - Sorry, 222, but I just don't think you're active enough in countervandalism to warrant it at this time. I'd agree with Coolnesse on this one. 00:12, January 19, 2011 (UTC)

Oppose - Essentially per liquid. Only 66 reports to the CVU, and most of the areas that you are active in are covered in the custodian rights which you already have. Also, as a bit of a sidenote, the page on which you have the most edits is your userpage - in fact, over 400 edits are on there. I also haven't been impressed with some of your interactions with other editors on the YG, though I don't have specific examples at this time. Sorry, Ajraddatz 00:15, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * 400 out of 11,376 edits, pretty cool logic, some admins don't even have 5k edits. 09:31, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * You completely missed the point (again), and that one point is hardly enough for me to oppose this candidate. Ajraddatz 15:26, January 19, 2011 (UTC)

Comment - Just as a friendly reminder, if Thebrains wants to accept this nomination, he needs to sign it and answer the questions. 00:18, January 19, 2011 (UTC)

Support - I trust him to do no evil. 01:16, January 19, 2011 (UTC)

Support - I've seen the anti-vandal-ness-icity and I've seen the maintenance-ness-icity. He would do good. 01:31, January 19, 2011 (UTC)

Comment - Rhys, thanks very much for pointing out some things here, but could you please stop. I mean no offence, and I am sure you have good intentions, but I am afraid you will cause more harm than good here. Thanks, 09:37, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * Fine... 16:42, January 19, 2011 (UTC)

Neutral - 222 would use the tools if granted, however he accomplishes his current activities with the custodian group right. While he would use them from time to time, I don't see why we must have more anti-vandal administrators at this point in time. If he were to use them for something else, then maybe I would see a reason to warrant the sysop group right, however one has yet to see such a need for editing protected pages in this regard. It's not that you have few edits to the CVU project page, but because we have had so many users come in for RfA's with this mindset. Even if that isn't the main goal of receiving the tools, I hope this isn't a big deal to you. Sorry, 17:03, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd just like to say that I often struggle to find a sysop when I need a block during a large amount of my afternoons and evening. Just telling you this fact in case you did not know, which I believe many don't. 04:33, January 20, 2011 (UTC)

Neutral - You are no doubt a great editor, but as others have said, I don't think you are that big on the anti-vandalisim that others have done. 05:28, January 20, 2011 (UTC)

Support - For me supporting or not is about trust. 222 got my trust. (could i have it back plz?) 23:47, January 20, 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, i read that joke bout "u got my trust, i want it back, U STOEL IT!" again and it looks kinda like "i trust u, now u trust me" so i striked it trough. 11:17, January 21, 2011 (UTC)

Oppose - Yes we have had our differences in the past, but I assure you this is not why I am opposing, nor am I opposing because I'm (apparently) a racist. You spend a lot of your time in the cvu so you probably would use that part of being a sysop well. The only other reason you'd really need the tools for are invalid now as your custodian rights pretty much cover them. Yes, you would be trustable and you would use the tools well, but what would this Wiki be like if anyone who we could trust had sysop tools? Anyway. I'd give it awhile, you've got the potential to be a top admin thought, dude. 18:31, January 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * You've been called a racist now? 00:52, January 23, 2011 (UTC)
 * I get called a racist a regular basis, like Liquidhelium gets called helm and Ajr gets called a smoker, now which is stupid because it's only partly true. 12:25, January 23, 2011 (UTC)

Strong Oppose - I'm concerned about his attitude. Good editor, but I don't think he's a suitable choice at this point in time. 21:23, January 22, 2011 (UTC)

Oppose - based on what I've seen of you, I'm not convinced that would would really make much use of the tools if given them. -- 21:46, January 22, 2011 (UTC)