RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Ajraddatz

Ajraddatz
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Hello everyone, after about three days of arguing with myself over it, I am nominating myself for adminship. I have had a variety of people offer to nominate me over the last two months, however, I prefer self-nominations, because then I get to say what I want to, and answer the questions right away. Over the last three months, I have noticed that having sysop tools would be beneficial, for both my speed and effectiveness in dealing with things like vandalism, file moves, Yew Grove thread archiving, closing RfDs, and general maintenance tasks that require either access to the MediaWiki files or to sysop tools.

I was very hesitant in filing this request, because in my opinion the RuneScape Wiki has enough semi-active admins. However, since I do have a need for the tools, and would be very active in my use of them, I have decided to file this request. Some, if not most of you will know that I do have extensive admin experience on other wikis. I know how to use the tools, and know the role of an administrator in general and in specific areas. I don't want to make this seem like bragging, however, I do think that it is pertinent to give you some indication of how I use the sysop tools, and what I tend to do on other wikis. If you wish, please see my contributions on Brickipedia, the FarmVille Wiki and Wikianswers. A link to my log actions can be accessed from those pages, and feel free to ask any questions that you may have about what I do on other wikis. You will notice that I am not very active on any of them right now. This is because I am very busy in real life, and am devoting most of my time to the RuneScape Wiki; something which I will continue to do until my life eases up a bit.

If this request fails, oh well. I can see why it might. I'll live, and still edit here as much as I do now. However, I think that the RuneScape Wiki would benefit from me having access to sysop tools. Please ask additional questions if I'm missing anything.

''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 block. Signed,'' 00:01, August 10, 2010 (UTC).

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

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

'''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?'''

Discussion
Support - You obviously would make good use of the tools, and you're a great guy. Plenty of awesome edits. Coelacanth0794 00:02, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Experienced user who is very active in anti-vandalism. I have no doubt that the wiki will benefit if he were to be granted sysop tools. 00:11, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - I always see him reverting and reporting vandalism, he's an experienced user who would no doubt use the tools well. I was really wondering when this nomination would show up. =/ 00:20, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support per above. 00:30, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Best anti-vandal since another person who was also a really great anti-vandal. Will you reject the name highlight should this RFA pass? 00:43, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Quite possibly, unless someone gives me a really good reason to have it. 00:57, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Consistency. 01:40, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Consistency? Then all hilited people should drop it asap, there is no reason at all anyone has ever given to show that someone may need to know who an admin is.EVER.--Degenret01 01:56, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Why the hell are we turning an RfA into an argument over something else? 02:02, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - I like the resume and Im hearing good things... -- 01:44, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - You do a lot of work around here, and a proactive person such as you can make good use of the tools with future projects. I've seen you in many situations, and while there are times you react questionably in my opinion you have a good head on your shoulders. As a last note, I believe you should have the highlight to make it easier to see you are indeed an admin and, as Steler said, consistency. Godspeed, comrade. 01:52, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - I'm not the best with words, so I cannot go into to much detail without sounding silly, but he does do a very good job at what he does. I can see him using the tools, and that he can be trusted with them. 01:58, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Lolirony.. I offered you a golden ticket to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory in exchange for permission to nominate you for adminship and then a few weeks later you do it yourself. D: In all seriousness, though, you're an ideal sysop candidate and I am confident that you will make good use of the extra tools. 02:00, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Been around for a while, has done a lot of work around here. He has learned from his mistakes earlier on, and I see him interacting with the community in every way possible. Does a lot of maintenance work around here, keeps vandals at bay, and does everything else that he does amazing. So, he has shown all that I think is found in a potential sysop. 02:11, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Oppose - While your anti-vandalism efforts are fantastic, some of your actions early on prevent me from supporting. It seems to me that when you first arrived on the wiki you looked down on everyone else as less experienced and therefore less capable. This is not something that we need in a sysop. We need to have sysops that are open to everyone's ideas and willing to work with the community even if they don't fully agree. Although it seems that your attitude has improved, I still have some reservations. I'm also slightly concerned about your adminship on a number of different wikis, as I know some people view adminship as a trophy to be earned on as many wikis as possible, which again is not something I am looking for in our sysops. -- 02:51, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * I believe your comment assumes bad faith. This greatly concerns me.   04:51, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Minor Oppose - Per Aburnett. 03:03, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Comment - I was actually intending to put a little blurb about how I don't use adminship as a trohpy in my opening statement, but I forgot that, so I think I will say it here. This is not intended as an argument of what people have said, however, I think that this is important and pertinent to the RfA. I don't collect adminship on wikis, to put it plainly. While I do keep any rollback rights I get for the sake of counter-vandalism, whenever I am completely done contributing on a wiki, I request that my tools be removed. See here for an example, and also here, although in that example I became active again and requested them back. Also, I know a lot of people who do collect adminship, and the argument is a fair one. However, I can assure everyone that that is not what I do. Anyways, as I said I'm not going to make an argument out of this, but I do think that it is important that people know it. Also, for those interested, despite being involved in global counter-vandalism, I will not be accepting an invitation to join the VSTF if I get one. Thanks, 03:23, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for expanding on that -- 03:30, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Strong Support - I've begged Ajr to do an RfA several times, and he's always turned me down. Sometimes, I get tired of seeing his name in CVU. I got in a huge argument with this guy at one point (which I'm sure everyone remembers) and despite me being a complete jerk (and a few other things that I would have to censor), in my mind, he kept his head, and he kept cool, and he had no hard feelings about it. That is very respectable to me. I think unlike a lot of sysops, he would remain active and use his tools frequently. I know everyone thinks we have "5" sysops who pounce on vandals almost all the time, I don't agree with that. Sometimes even during "peak" times, I'll see the CVU go unchecked for 30-60 minutes or longer. I believe Ajr would be an excellent choice for an administrator. 04:09, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Very experienced at what he does. He probably uses the CVU more than the rest of us put together. 04:49, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Great anti-vandal work and is somebody I would trust as a sysop. 06:14, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Weak support - Despite my view that we have enough admins, and it should be based on the wiki's needs, not the user's, I support, weakly. Ajraddatz has constantly shown his need for admin tools and possesses extreme experience in their use, etc. To be honest, Ajraddatz would make one of the best admins on the whole wiki. His past conflicts do not concern me too much, mainly because of what they were over. He has definitely learnt how things work here. Kay, that's my only RfA support for the next year. 06:14, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Oppose - I agree with Aburnett's concerns. Due to your earlier actions on the Wiki, I still have reservations about trusting you with these tools. While it is good that you have since apologised for your actions, I find it difficult to comprehend the rationale and reasoning that you had for them in the first place. A notable example. would be the gross violation of GTS (which you have mentioned), I found the reasoning to be rather poor and weak. How at all you came to the conclusion that it was the right sort of action to make is beyond me. Examining your edits, I have noticed a lot of what I interpret to be arrogance, and belittling of the Wiki and some of its users. Too often, I've seen you quoting your experience in inter-wiki counter-vandalism to strengthen your arguments. As highlighted very clearly in the discussion, Forum:Request for bot on Ajrbot, you disallowed other users from voicing their views if you deemed it irrelevant (also see ), showing generally quite little respect for them. Undermining of other users here as well, based on your personal opinion, and rather recent. I have even seen you label the Wiki as "stupid" and "messed-up". I understand you may have matured since then, but your history is littered with too many incidences of poor judgment and poor handling of issues for me to support. I would prefer to observe you for a greater period of time. I have no issues with your counter-vandalism work however, you seem to be quite proficient in that aspect, judgment-wise not so much. Cheers. 06:15, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Just want to neutrally say that that there is no policy against him calling the wiki "stupid" and "messed-up". If he said it about a user, that may be disrespectful. But I find some aspects of this wiki stupid and messed-up. Him being an administrator may help fix these numerous issues. 06:36, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't think whether there is a policy or not is particularly relevant. It doesn't reflect very well on his character when he calls the Wiki "stupid" and "messed-up" being new to the community (which he was at the time of those comments if I remember correctly, correct me if I'm mistaken). 06:47, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Cautious support - Per Chicken's comments. I find them very true regarding our current situation. 06:44, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - He could defiantly use the tools, and be trusted with them. The things that happened early on(from what I've heard cause i wasn't here than) aren't thing we want in an admin but he has defiantly evolved and is a great editor. The amount of times people have wanted to nom him is amazing for someone without the tools. I no he has made mistakes (Ajrbot) but everyone makes mistakes. I think he will be a model admin and very helpful to this wiki. 07:15, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Defiantly? You mean definitely? I hope 08:52, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, this has happened in a past rfa or a yg can't remember, but when ever i say the first one i mean the second one. 09:00, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Huh? 09:10, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Great antivandal. 08:56, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - I see him working consistantly against any messed up recent changes, and he usually beats me too them. he also fixes problems well, and i find his work to be good. admin tools will simply speed up the process of his enormously helpful edits. 09:05, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Super antivandal, super guy, super admin. 10:56, August 10, 2010 (UTC)