Star Wars Fanon:Requests for adminship

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This page is for users to place requests for adminship (RFA), which are elections held to elect new administrators. An Administrator is a user with more privileges than a regular user; administrators have rollback rights, deletion rights, protection rights, and also have the duty to enforce the rules, assist all users, enforce blocks, and maintain organization throughout Star Wars Fanon. The current administrators are as follows: Brandon Rhea, C3PO the Dragon Slayer, Wayne "CurrentBigThing" Lipman III, Thomas "Darth tom" Rattim, Andrew "Drewton" Barton, Jasca Ducato, Christian "NKSCF" Ashley, Gnosis is knowledge, Michaeldsuarez, Nacen, and Solus. Former administrators include Bub, Jennie "StarNeptune" Cooper, Neomessiah, Victor "Squishy Vic" Dorantes and Jedi Master 76.

See the archive to view previous requests for adminiship election details.

Rules

 * Main article: Rules

Nomination
In order for a user to be nominated or initiate a request for adminship, that user must have at least 250 main space edits and must have been a member of Star Wars Fanon for at least one month. If a user is being nominated by someone else, that user must have accepted the nomination beforehand, so that the nominee knows of his request for adminship.

To set up a request for adminship of a nominee or of oneself, a user must provide the following format:


 * === User:Username ===
 * ==== Support ====
 * ==== Oppose ====
 * ==== Neutral ====
 * ==== Comments ====
 * ==== Questions ====

Voting
Any users who want to participate in the voting process must reach the standards of the voting policy, which means having at least one hundred (100) main space edits.

Users may only vote once per candidate, which is logical; if they are going to oppose a user, however, they must provide a solid concrete reason. Invalid reasons will be struck out. A support vote adds one tally to the net votes of a nominee, and an oppose vote subtracts one tally; a neutral vote does nothing, mathematically.

However, new rules have been established on voting. Although each support vote still adds one to the total vote, and each oppose vote subtracts one from the total vote, a user may no longer vote for every candidate. To prevent ties as much as possible and to make the voting truly fair, the administrators decided upon a new system. In the case where there is only one or two candidates, a user may only use a "Full Vote" to vote for one candidate, not both. In the case of three candidates, a user has the ability to vote for two of the three users, stating either "Full Vote" when voting for one candidate, or "Half Vote" (with each vote) when voting for two candidates. In the case of four or more candidates, a user has the ability to vote for up to three of the candidates, stating either "Full Vote" when voting for one candidate, "Half Vote" (with each vote) when voting for two candidates, or "One-Third Vote" (with each vote) when voting for three candidates.

Note that oppose and neutral votes are not limited, and they may be distributed upon all candidates.

Users who have been barred from voting may not vote if their punishment is still ongoing, and, as the voting policy states, vandals and sockpuppets may not vote either.

Current standings

 * Trak Nar (+6)

Support

 * 1) Trak is a wonderful editor. She is one of the few who has actually taken it upon herself to improve the quality of the wiki by cleaning up articles that require a cleanup, in regards to spelling, grammar, formatting, and other things of the like. She and I also share a similar philosophy regarding deletion, which I am pleased to see because that also helps to improve the quality of the wiki. She has some great ideas, and I’ve been hoping she would accept a nomination for awhile now. She has now accepted it. I know that, if elected, Trak will be a great administrator, and I will be happy to welcome her onto the team. We clearly need more competent people on the administrative staff considering the minimal number of administrators and active administrators we have. Tl;dr version - called and said I was sexist for not nominating more women to be administrators, since Solus is our only one. I’m nominating Trak to avoid a feminist lawsuit. THE END! - Brandon Rhea  Rebel symbol Blue.png (talk) 02:33, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) Full support. &mdash;  JM ' 76 ' Droid IRC [[Image:Sabersmilyjm76.jpg|16px|link=:Category:Articles by Jedi Master 76]] 02:36, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Equality for all!-- Josh Bender Talk 04:43, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 4) Per above. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 17:05, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 5) We need someone like her. --Wylindsig.png (Conference Room)  17:38, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, at last something very interesting. I vote definitely, yes (not definitely, maybe). –Victor Squishy Vic.png (talk page ) 05:44, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Neutral

 * 1) - Joe   (talk) 17:04, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) Unit 8311 [[Image:1110 Big small.jpg|20px]] Talk!  17:05, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Comments

 * Not sure about this one. Trak makes between five and ten minor edits a day, which is not enough to warrant adminship, imo, which actually means I'm leaning towards opposing this. Still, I'm gonna think about it for a little while. - Joe   (talk) 06:31, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * After having time to sit and think about it, and considering my very intense bias towards bad ideas... I'd be afraid of abusing the power. I'd much rather avoid temptation and stick with being an editor.  I'm not as active as I could be, and when I accepted the nomination, I was tired and somewhat distracted.  I don't wanna put myself in a position in which I have the power to make really bad ideas mysteriously vanish.  So I'd like to retract the nomination.  Trak Nar  Ramble on 06:52, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Questions

 * 1) What process do you go through to decide if an article should be deleted?
 * 2) If you were to redesign the Hello template, what, if anything, would you change about it?
 * 3) If you disagree with an admin's decision, would you trust that admin's judgment, contact the admin and call the issue to attention, or try to fix it yourself?
 * 4) How much time do you normally spend on Star Wars Fanon in a day?
 * 5) What is the role of an administrator?
 * 6) When should a user be blocked from editing? Is the blocking policy lenient, restrictive, or just right in your opinion?
 * 7) What is the difference between a poorly-written stub and an article that should be put up for a vote for deletion?
 * 8) What is the difference between an article that should be put up for a vote for deletion and an article for immediate deletion?
 * 9) Should admins try to fix bad articles before deleting them?
 * 10) Should normal users try to fix other people's bad articles?
 * 11) What is your favorite Star Wars film? HINT: The answer is not Attack of the Clones.