RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Haidro

Haidro
Hello everyone.

My name is Haidro and today I am requesting for the sysop tools. I feel now that I can benefit greatly with the tools having been here for over a year and a half editing almost 10,000 times. During my time on the wiki, I hang out in Special:Chat, IRC, and the infrequent trip to the Clan Chat. While in there, I occasionally bug admins to do any tasks which need completing, such as deleting content or blocking users. There have been instances where admins are needed, but are away in either Chat or IRC and has even once made me have to go to the Clan Chat.

I live on a GMT + 10 time zone where currently not many admins are present during the afternoon. Since Sentra has gone inactive, there are now less aussie sysops than before and I feel that we do need more, and that I am a good "fill-in". I am also on the wiki for a great amount of time, more than 4 hours a day, and even more on the weekends.

''I, Haidro, 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,'' 12:12, December 8, 2012 (UTC).

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

I intend to use the blocking tool while patrolling recent changes, if necessary of course, and other basic maintenance tasks, such as deleting pages/files, merging files, and awarding consensus to page maintenance threads. I will also grant the occasional user the rollback or custodian tool and closing UotM monthly (if no other sysop has done it already) . All these locations that I will use the tools in are places I am fairly active in.

2. What have been your most helpful contributions to the RuneScape Wiki, and why?

My most helpful contributions are probably the ones that help with newly-released updates on RuneScape. Although I am F2P, I get information from news posts and other players to help me understand the new update, and progress my information onto the wiki by adding files and pages.

'''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 an active user in Special:Chat and counter-vandalism, yes.

Occasionally I get into an argument with a user about some particular edit, or even relating to another user. This can be shown on my talk page (and archives), as there have been posts from anons regarding why their edits have been removed/changed. I talked to them on their talk pages, and we eventually got the issue/s resolved. I have also had minor conflicts in IRC and even the Clan Chat.

I will deal with conflicts as I have been doing normally, with the addition of learning from my mistakes. I normally just take a break if I am arguing with someone, and later apologise to them.

In depth of the conflicts:

One time in IRC, I had mistakenly thought I had undone an edit (the page had saved, but actually Coel had removed it) and so I went to warn the anon. I then noticed that Coel's edit summary on the edit was… well, it wasn't an edit summary, it was a revert. The reason for which the edit had been removed was RS:NPOV I believe, and so I pinged Coel in both S:C and IRC (a mistake, yes) to tell him to undo the edit and say RS:NPOV and not just revert the edit. He later told me that he actually reverted the edit and not me, and got annoyed at me that I had warned the anon and not him. I apologised to Coel for pinging him in both chats, and had told him that it was a mistake not knowing first that he had actually undone the edit and not me.

With the incident in the Clan Chat, it was just an argument with Christine and I relating to another user (This was two months ago). I have a picture (well pictures) of it (what isn't mentioned is that I actually left the channel after the last line), and I realised that it was me who had done some mistakes here. Firstly, I should have just dropped it when I said we should drop it. I don't know why I continued. Secondly, I believe it wasn't nice how I said "I don't like you" at the end, and I must apologise to you Christine.

4. Should this request be successful, which of the following, if any, do you wish to be added to your account: Username highlight; IRC operator; Clan Chat administrator?


 * Well, the highlight is going to crash and burn, so...
 * IRC, despite the fact that I am rather active, no thank you.
 * CCA, No thanks