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Requests for adminship is the process by which the Warcraft Wiki community decides who will become administrators (also known as admins or sysops), who are users with access to additional technical features that aid in maintenance. A user either submits his/her own request for adminship (a self-nomination) or is nominated by another user.
About RfA
The community grants administrator status to trusted users, so nominees should have been on Warcraft Wiki long enough for people to determine whether they are trustworthy. Administrators are held to high standards of conduct because other editors often turn to them for help and advice.
- Nominations
- The only official prerequisite for adminship is to have an account, have a basic level of trust from other editors, and the ability to show the community how the user will use administrator tools. Nominations must be accepted by the user in question. If you wish to nominate a user, contact them first before making the nomination page. If they accept, create the nomination and ask them to sign their acceptance. To nominate either yourself or another user for adminship, add a new level 3 section underneath the Nominations section.
- Decision process
- Any user may nominate another user with an account. Self-nominations are also permitted. If you are unsure about nominating yourself for adminship, you may wish to speak with one of the other administrators first, so as to get an idea of what the community might think of your request. Nominations will remain posted until a bureaucrat reviews the discussion to see whether there is a consensus for promotion. The purpose of this time is for users to give their opinions, ask questions, and make comments.
- If your nomination fails, please wait a reasonable period of time before renominating yourself or accepting another nomination. Some candidates have tried again and succeeded within a month, but many editors prefer several months before reapplying.
- Expressing opinions
- Any editor is welcome to comment. The candidate may respond to the comments of others. Certain comments may be discounted if there are suspicions of fraud, such as contributions from very new editors. Please explain your opinion by including a short explanation of your reasoning. Your input will carry more weight if it is accompanied by supporting evidence.
- To add a comment, just edit the page, Always be respectful towards others in your comments. You may wish to review arguments to avoid in adminship discussions.
- Formatting responses
- Generally a comment should begin with a summarized position in bold. Admin comments will not be taken as having more weight than non-admins, but a nomination is unlikely to succeed if more admins oppose than support.
- Examples of responses (only guidelines):
- Neutral or Undecided - I have not formed a definitive opinion for or against the candidate, but...
- Support - A great contributor who would make a great admin!
- Oppose - Who is this guy again? He hasn't done enough for Warcraft Wiki to get my support.
Nominations
MyMindWontQuiet
Hey there, after the Discord talk, I've also decided to apply for adminship. I believe in general that there's a need to have more admins on Warcraft Wiki.
With the Wowwiki merge in sight, and the release of Shadowlands soon, I thought these were two good reasons for me to become even more active and step up.
I expect an influx of new editors this year and thus, well, more edits. Hopefully we can welcome our Wowwiki counterparts seamlessly.
My main focus is on lore content pages as you may know, but also media content and occasionally, patches and files.
Appreciate that I've had my share of arguments with other editors (who hasn't?!), but I believe talking it out has worked more often than not.
Xporc warned us all that it may not be easy, but I'm willing to try and maybe take off some of the load off his and other admins' shoulders.
Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to know- thanks for the consideration! -- — MyMindWontQuiet 17:15, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Discussion
Responses
Neutral or Undecided
- Undecided - I do appreciate the gesture of him wanting to step up, but I've had so many heated disagreements with MMWQ that I can't say I'm enthusiastic at the idea of him getting more "political" power. We'd probably yell at each other a lot, but then again I'm trying to step back my own involvement, so maybe that could be a good thing for me Xporc (talk) 18:46, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
- Neutral - I haven't been active too much lately, so I have no recent experience.
(Sssss/Slithered) 23:47, 8 May 2020 (UTC) - Neutral - I generally agree with DarkTZeratul and Xporc on this. After discussing things with MMWQ, I don't think he'd misuse the admin position, but I also don't feel confident in giving a support vote. --
DeludedTroll (talk • contribs) 18:13, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
Support
- Support - :+1: --Ryon21 (talk) 17:18, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
- Support I too have had many arguments with MMWQ... on other platforms. However they're usually reasonable and respectful debates, and he's one of the most knowledgeable loremasters I know. And in my experience with him as a reddit mod, he's always been fair and responsible with his mod powers. (BattleNub89 (talk) 21:45, 6 May 2020 (UTC))
- Support -- Ketho (talk) 00:56, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
- Support —Eithris (talk) 00:14, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
- Support — Surafbrov T / C 19:09, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Oppose
- Oppose I've long had issues with MMWQ; I feel that in an argument, he has a strong tendency to obstinately refuse to give any ground and also to refuse to let things go, neither of which are qualities I would want in an admin. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 17:35, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose --Mordecay (talk) 21:15, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose - I feel that he needs an arbitrator too much to be one.--SWM2448 01:25, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose I don't feel that I can add a support vote at this time. PeterWind (talk) 13:28, 4 June 2020 (UTC)