Star Wars Fanon:User of the Month/Archive/December 2008

This is an archive of the votes obtained by the winner of User of the Month for December 2008.

Support

 * 1) Unit is very active in Project Cruentus. He is very friendly, offers help and he is a great writer. --Arav the Undersith  (Contact Me ) (My contributions ) 06:41, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) *After Solus is user of the week, I will vote for you. (Seeing if you help in the community more :)) --Arav the Undersith (Contact Me ) (My contributions ) 05:58, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) Better then the "other one"
 * 4) *Banned member, struck vote. --Victor [[Image:Vic sig logo.png|15px]] talk 04:16, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 5) Drewton  [[Image:Era-old.png|20px]] ( Drewton's Holocron ) 21:57, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 6) --Victor [[Image:Vic sig logo.png|15px]] talk 05:37, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 7) -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)  (Chow) 23:04, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 8) Has been working hard on the CUSWFN. -- Michaeldsuarez [[Image:Sabersmilygreend.jpg|20px]] ( Talk ) ( Deeds ) 23:08, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 9) He's active in the community now through his work as a Seer and a co-head of CUSWFN, as well as someone who takes part in community discussions on a regular basis and someone who, although somewhat minimally, helps new users. - Brandon Rhea (talk) (contribs) 23:22, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 10) --  CurrentBigThing  ( Speak ) 05:38, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 11) &mdash;  JM ' 76 ' Ask Archives [[Image:Sabersmilyjm76.jpg|18px]] 06:15, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 12) --[[Image:Darth tom sig.png|100px]] (talk) (contributions) 17:54, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 13) HELL YEAH!--Arav the Undersith <font color=Blue>(<font color=#C3B091>Contact Me ) <font color=#00416A>(<font color=#C3B091>My contributions ) 09:12, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) As I said, I'm taking things more seriously and judging this on overall community work. Project Cruentus and working on your own GA and FA nominations does not constitute overall community work. I don't feel that Unit deserves this until he becomes more active in the community. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea  <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) <font color="#1A2BBB">(contribs) 16:25, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) *My opposition is now outdated. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) <font color="#1A2BBB">(contribs) 23:22, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) *I accept your challenge, compadre. Expect to see my name on the community more often. Unit 8311 10:07, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) Per Brandon. --Victortalk 06:01, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 5) *No real reason to oppose. --Victor [[Image:Vic sig logo.png|15px]] talk 04:16, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Comments
Well, this is a nice surprise. Thanks Arav. I will put pre-emptive replies to any objections here: about claims about my critiscm-taking, while I have had one or two incidents of note regarding this, for the most part I reply to critiscm with a pinch of salt or non-aggressively. And while my article quotes are admittedly often sucky, I have recieved much positive feedback for my work, including my earlier articles back when I was a noob. And while I don't mean to sound arrogant, I feel that Cruentus would be in the doldrums without me. Unit 8311 16:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC)


 * This is a tough one. Unit is certainly active on Star Wars Fanon and in Project Cruentus, but is Cruentus enough for UOTM? How much do you, Unit, do to help the overall SWF community? - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) <font color="#1A2BBB">(contribs) 16:30, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, to be absolutely fair, I'm not massively active in community things other than Cruentus. However, I have occasionally participated in GANs, and I'm starting to get more active there lately. Nonetheless, Cruentus has certainly evolved into quite a big thing, and I think that I helped that happen. I've also been quite helpful to users such as Arav and Troyb, and I think I generally have a friendly, positive attitude, even when under fire. But if you think that's not enough, that's fine by me. TBH, I never expected to get this far when I first joined. Unit 8311 16:36, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm certainly not saying you’re not active in terms of things like that. It's just that I want to see UOTM have a bit more distinction in terms of it being handed out to people who help the entire SWF community. For example, although you help Arav and Troyb, I don't see you welcoming and helping new users. You occasionally participate in GANs, but you don’t really do reviews that will help in the improvement of the articles that are nominated. The only time I really see you on the GAN page is when you have your own article nominated. Also, although Cruentus certainly has evolved far more than I ever thought was possible, it's only one small part of the community and I don’t really think that should be a qualification for UOTM unless someone is involved in other facets of the community. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) <font color="#1A2BBB">(contribs) 17:22, 3 August 2008 (UTC) Well, I personally am going to be holding this to a new standard, and if there's a shortage then so be it. I'm not going to vote for someone simply because there is a UOTM shortage. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) <font color="#1A2BBB">(contribs) 17:45, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not denying any of that. However, we do have a UOTM shortage, and in light of that I feel that I'm currently the best eligible nominee. That's all I'm saying. And I have welcomed new users in the past...well, about two, to be fair. Unit 8311 17:43, 3 August 2008 (UTC)