RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Lil diriz 77

Lil diriz 77
Hello! I'd like to nominate myself for adminship because I feel that the tools would help me in my editing experience greatly, in such ways that I don't have to ask an admin for help, then wait for a reply, etc. I consider myself a decent contributor, giving my opinion in discussions, reverting vandalism when I see it (or watch for it), and inputting content to help make our wiki the best of the best (little by little of course!). I know the responsibilities and requirements needed for a user to effectively be an admin, and plan to follow them. Of course, I am not perfect, and at least try to learn from my mistakes. I promise to never fully go inactive from the wiki (unless under extreme conditions), as I check the wiki almost everyday. I hope the community thinks I'm ready for this responsibility, and thus, I hope you'll post your opinions here. 02:29, April 18, 2010 (UTC)

''I, Lil diriz 77, 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,''. 03:06, April 18, 2010 (UTC)

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

I'm sure I'll enjoy reverting vandalism. I plan on creating a system which will help give registered users and unregistered users a voice and opinion on the changes us more active users make to the wiki (I have proposed this here). I'd like to use my tools to help when categorizing, moving/renaming, and deleting images (they are my self-proclaimed specialty ). Of course, I'd also like to participate in general sysop duties such as maintenance edits.

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

Myself, I favor my revamps to the Summoning familiars and Summoning obelisk articles:


 * I had spent days in my POH in HD fullscreen, summoning familiars and running across my grass in order to get a properly angled screenshot (this was before the wonderful and easy days of the orb of oculus ). I then spent 10+ minutes editing each familiar, uploading it to the wiki, and properly categorizing all of them.
 * I had spend 3 straight hours scrolling over the in-game World Map, delving into each dungeon, counting all of the obelisks and noting their locations.Then, I added any missing obelisks to the article, while recreating the article in a new format which uses location names right from the World Map. The Table of Contents on the article works wonders here.

Of course, I am mostly proud of my image maintenance. It's one of my favorite things to do; running around Gielinor taking screenshots, then exploring Photofiltre and Gimp for the most effective way to clean up the image.

'''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 haven't been in any major fights or arguments directed towards other users, but I have been in some heated discussions on the Yew Grove and elsewhere. Maybe they weren't heated, and I was just getting very stressed over them, which I wouldn't be surprised by. To list a few, see:


 * Forum:Reveal leaked info?
 * Forum:Image Policy Follow-up
 * File talk:Dragon boots.png

I've also had a small, small conflict with Iggytoad in which I accidentally edited his Christmas Greetings template. His template consisted of a section within itself, so when I clicked the big [edit] link on someone's talk page, it brought me to the edit page of Iggytoad's template instead of the talk page section. Without noticing it, I added my comment to the template (instead of the talk page), which somehow angered him enough to report me to the CVU... not a real conflict, just a misunderstanding.

Discussion
Support - It seems you are a major contributor with files, and I'd imagine administrative tools would be immensely helpful to you. Cook Me Plox Talk 06:34, April 18, 2010 (UTC)

Support - You are a great user, and would do well with admin tools. 07:24, April 18, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Sup Drizzl3, you're focused, you understand how to improve, and you're a great contributor to the Wiki. You're a good all-rounder, and I'm sure you'll make a great admin, the only problem I see is your lack of anti vandalism work, also I think we've gotten to the point where there's almost too many admins, but hopefully this won't get in the way for you. 13:50, April 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment - In my opinion, as long as someone can use the sysop tools effectively for the betterment of the wiki, there can never be too many admins . Of course, this doesn't mean we should just give out the tools to anyone, obviously, they'd have to be trusted in general by the community. I mean, 5 years after opening the wiki, we have 70 admins. In the next 5 years, I'd be glad to see 70 more. 16:18, April 18, 2010 (UTC)

Pending - Until you can demonstrate that you have a legitimate need for sysop tools. "I want to be an admin because I don't want to wait for admins to help me" is not a reason to become an admin. 16:26, April 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment - What I meant by that was explained in the first question,: I'd like to use my tools to help when categorizing, moving/renaming, and deleting images. If you look at my deleted contributions in the File: namespace, you'll see that I've recently speedy d'ed a few images due to them being duplicates of File:Novite.png or File:Argonite-cx.png. By duplicate, I meant that they contain, for example, 2/5 novite or argonite armor pieces than said images. Said images are multipurpose (can be used on 5 pages), while the speedy d'ed images could only be used on 2 pages. Multipurpose is better, and takes up less space on the wiki.


 * So, if I had admin tools, I could fix a number of problems here, with ease:
 * Delete 'duplicate' or 'non-multipurpose' images. (Where I would then upload a multipurpose that I created myself)
 * Rename (move) badly named images (e.g. 'File:Rsking390_rswiki_image.png' which contains the pixels of a quest cape)
 * Delete .jpg images, so I could then upload a .png in which someone could update


 * All of these things would just make this process a whole lot easier for me. With the release of the Dungeoneering skill, I've got a whole lot of images to move around, delete, and reupload. It's a long and complicated process that would just make things so much easier and faster if I had the tools. Might I add that there's few, few people who would be willing to do this work?


 * If this is too long of a reply to post on an RfA... apologies . At least now everyone can see my reasoning here. 16:39, April 18, 2010 (UTC)

Support, per above - ily <3 21:52, April 18, 2010 (UTC) User does not have 50 required edits.   22:01, April 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Restored. His old account was User:InstantWinston, but he ditched it because he had an online stalker. He's a forum admin. 22:06, April 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * I see.  22:10, April 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * 22:12, April 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * It wouldn't matter anyway, as any registered user may comment on a rfa, there is no 50 edit barrier. 22:18, April 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * True >_> That's for UOTM. 22:20, April 18, 2010 (UTC)

Oppose - I have never supported a candidate that I do not feel has a need for sysop tools. (Incidentally, that includes Stelercus. I'm starting to regret opposing his RfA <.<) I've taken a look at your edit report. It seems that you have edited the CVU fewer than 25 times, since it does not show up in your most commonly edited pages. Also, you have not warned vandals sufficiently for the warnings to show up in your most common edit summaries list. The only one that I saw was GEMW 1, which you handed out only 15 times. Since you have mentioned anti-vandalism as a major part of your adminship, I cannot support this as I do not see enough evidence that you will be a strong anti-vandal. Furthermore, I recall seeing not a long time ago a semi-retired message on your userpage. Who's to say it won't happen again? 00:13, April 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment - I know for a fact that I am not a fantastic anti-vandal. I think you've misunderstood. Maybe I didn't express enough that being an anti-vandal won't be a major part in my future work, but I have expressed that the File: namespace will be. In my answer to the first question, I was just listing the things that I would do with adminship over time. I did not mean to say that I plan to be a major anti-vandal, because I know I will not be.


 * I know I've not edited the CVU many times, but this is just because I have not yet found a use for it. By this I mean that after I do warn a vandal, 5 minutes later, they've stopped. The CVU is meant to be used when a contributor needs to be blocked. I've either yet to come across a situation like this, or minutes after I warned the vandal an admin came along and blocked them already. Sure, I will when I'm an admin, it will be partially my duty to block and remove posted vandals on there. But right now, as a regular user, I really can't add much to it. Maybe I'm just very lenient and I like to give people chances; I'm not the type of person to see a negative bad faith edit and think "FINAL WARNING OR ELSE BLOCK!". If you look at the anti-vandalism I have done, you'll see that I give 1, 2 or even 3 warnings before I have to report to the CVU, and as I've said, it usually doesn't become this serious. I know that some admins are much more strict, giving out blocks right away, but I just can't bring myself to be that strict. I don't want to be like that.


 * I hope you don't oppose me just because of my lack in anti-vandalism. I'll make much more use out of the tools in other areas, as I have explained, but I just can't be someone who watchs the RC for hours upon time every single day. I patrol the RC when I'm surfing around the wiki with not much else to do. It's surely not something I'll just think of randomly in my head to do.


 * Regarding my semi-retired message on my user page, I really wonder what the problem with this is? If I do become an admin, does this mean I'm not allowed my freedom? Am I not allowed to go inactive or something? Maybe I have bipolar depression, maybe I'll get a job, maybe I'll have a lot of school work, maybe I'll have to constantly train for track and field. I don't see the problem with inactivity, especially since we have 70 administrators with 26 of them being inactive. I'm sorry if I sounded rude in this paragraph, but I truly don't see the problem with inactivity.


 * And something I'd like everyone to know:


 * We have enough anti-vandal admins, in my opinion. I'd like it if future responses to this RfA don't grill me for my low anti-vandalism count. I'll make much more use out of the tools than what everybody expects to be constant anti-vandalism. Even today I see people leaving messages on each others' talk pages saying they got an edit conflict when trying to rollback. As I've said, anti-vandalism will be part of my duties, but it won't be major. 01:00, April 19, 2010 (UTC)

Oppose - It doesn't appear to me that you've shown any great need for admin tools. Because you have indicated that you wont be performing anti vandal work as much as image maintenance, I looked through your deleted contributions and saw only a few (20-30) times where you tagged images for deletion. I could see the need for admin tools if you were always tagging images for deletion, but it seems to me unnecessary if we have more than enough admins to handle the occasional speedy-d. As for moving images to new names, this does not need to be done very often, and when it is required it is as easy as leaving a quick message on RS:AR, or downloading and then uploading the image under a different name. As for categorizing images and creating that feedback system, neither of those need sysop tools. I just don't see how you would use the tools if given them. -- 01:40, April 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - I'm afraid those deleted contributions were the past. My request for these tools has to do with what I will do in the future. I requested these tools because if this is the first time I've wanted to do such a huge project like organizing and uploading high quality images for each and every Dungeoneering weapon and armor. You'll see that I've already started this, mostly completing the Novite and Argonite armors, but then as I considered starting Mamaros, I thought that to myself that this job would be much easier with admin tools. They would really be less weight on my shoulders, and would save me much time in doing this. As for moving images, you'd be surprised when a new skill comes out; File:Helmtoplegs.jpg, File:Capture16.jpg, File:1234.png, and File:Pro 2h.png are all perfect examples of this. As for categorizing images, I didn't mean using the Category: namespace, I meant organizing them in general (see the "multipurpose images" and "non-multipurpose" images theory up at the top of this page and on File talk:Dragon boots.png). This 'organizing' consists of both renaming, redirecting, and deleting images that need to be. Sorry for that misunderstanding. 02:17, April 19, 2010 (UTC)