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.

Additional questions (asked by the community if necessary)
Even though you have done a lot of great things here that I often notice, such as imagework, some factual corrections, and minor edits; I usually do mainspace edits when I go Special:Random and see something wrong, so I think that's something great to be doing. Even with an excellent amount of contributions you've made, what imperfections do you see yourself doing on the wiki that you would like to address, and hopefully, improve on? -- 13:15, October 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * I do notice I am a very... bad typer. I make typos often, which is something I would like to improve on. Also noticing specific details is sometimes something I don't do as much as I should, such as noticing another thing to be edited, a typo, as said above, or noting another thing someone edited that may be relevant to the article but that I may have removed or undone in a previous edit. 13:20, October 17, 2012 (UTC)

You say you are reliant on freenode, and would like to discuss moving away from freenode with "the more experienced IRC leaders". Why not before? Why do you want to discuss this with the leaders, and not the community? Would you respect the policy on consensus during the discussion for the move? 17:40, October 17, 2012 (UTC)

Why did you advise the readers to read and re-read the adminship guide before commenting, when it's right above your request in RS:RFA? 17:40, October 17, 2012 (UTC)

What is the jump between "I contribute to the wiki" and "I am an administrator of the wiki" to you? Do you plan to learn about more of the tools with time? 17:40, October 17, 2012 (UTC)

Discussion
Oppose - Despite being an excellent editor, I still have concerns regarding interpretation of policy. On October 14th, the nominee quoted IRC chat involving a dispute between Cblair91 and Cursed Pyres. Specifically,. Whilst I was not present at the time in S:C I am told Coel defended posting such a quote by saying he personally did not say it and thus posting it was completely acceptable. I am of the belief that you are responsible for whatever you post including quoting someone else, even more so considering the nature of the quoted material. Before this I would have agreed that the nominee has been making a definite effort to improve his maturity, but sadly I feel this is not acceptable behaviour for a sysop.
 * I still see it as perfectly acceptable. I posted it for a reason, and my reason is that he continued showing UTP violations within the IRC. I posted it to gain attention of someone who has the power to have him knock it off. If I had simply said "cblair is violating UTP in IRC", nobody would care due to a diffusion of responsibility. Unless I provided an example, nobody would have done something: and it did work, did it not? Fergs gave him a warning after we had this conversation. To have an oppose for a case of showcasing evidence saying isn't mature shows the opposite of what I believe to be correct. 14:05, October 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Whilst I can understand the reasoning here, I still cannot agree with the execution. Private messaging exists for just this reason, or even creating a pastebin of the chat for a more balanced view of the incident. As I wasn't there at the time in S:C, I'm not sure of what the ensuing conversation was, but shocking someone into taking action isn't the way.

Oppose - Not long ago I talked to Coel about this RFA. I can't remember exactly what was said, but I mentioned his immaturity issues in chat. He reassured me that he knew he had behavioral problems and was working on them. I considered forgetting his past behavior issues and focused solely on his behavior now - so I've been watching. There has not been enough of an improvement for me to support just yet. Just the other day we got into a short argument for something inappropriate he posted in Special:Chat for all users to see: http://pastebin.com/4BURxDUJ Okay, I can get if he thought it was okay for whatever reason. Except that it didn't end there - he argued with me saying it was okay to post for the reasons seen in the pastie. Wth? This on top of his past issue (like telling me he's not afraid to break the rules because he thinks I won't kick him) show his failure to understand policies properly. This leads me to believe that many conflicts will raise between him and other users when he's closing threads, blocking or warning - either in a chat or on wiki. In conclusion, he has not improved enough for me to support. Give it more time and try harder. 14:06, October 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Please read the above. I wished for assistance from IRC administrators, which was you, because those in IRC certainly weren't gonna get involved. 14:08, October 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * When I mentioned that you could have taken it to PM, you asked if you should have sent it to every person individually. Why do non-admins need to see it? They don't. Like I said I could have understood if you had posted it and left it at that, but you didn't, you argued about how it was okay. 14:11, October 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * What would you have done if I had sent it via a PM? Would you have taken it as seriously? Please explain. 14:13, October 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Why would I not have taken it seriously if you had sent it to me in PM requesting a block? The 'seriousness' you're referring to is my frustration at you for thinking it's okay to post inappropriate things like that in Special:Chat. If you had posted it in PM I would have talked to Cblair anyway since you asked me to. 14:15, October 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Why do you feel it was so inappropriate? I understand it was very vulgar, and perhaps public chat wasn't the best place to put it, but I placed it there for administrative measures. Why is this specific event enough to warrant an total oppose? 14:18, October 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Like I said in my conclusion, it shows me that you haven't changed enough to be mature enough to handle being an admin. Arguing like that is just like you. I expect you to argue stupid things like that, because you always do. If you wanted to work on your maturity issues you would have not argued so much about it. It's not about who is right or who is wrong, just knowing when to stop or understand the other side. As you are now, you cannot do this. 14:30, October 17, 2012 (UTC)

Support - Coelacanth is a very skilled editor and has a maturity that would be expected of a RSW admin. I wish I could write as much as the others but I'm not a fan of picking out the most minute details and drawing ultimate conclusions from that. 14:27, October 17, 2012 (UTC)