Thread:SavageOpress1138/@comment-27159607-20170209225418/@comment-3528596-20170210030555

Hey there Jenkins. That's a somewhat complex question, and it doesn't have one simple answer. As such, I'm going to give you my full and honest opinion. In order to keep this from being a boring essay&mdash;and because I'm such a funny guy anyway&mdash;I'm going to do my best to keep this humorous and light as we go along. Please don't take that to mean I'm mocking you, making light of your question, or not taking this seriously. I completely am, but we may as well have some laughs if we're going to go on this adventure together. That aside, in my mind, there's the technical answer and the practical answer. I'll deal with the technical answer first because it's more concrete and shorter.

Insomuch as the base requirements for adminship (current activity and 100 mainspace edits) don't disqualify you for the position, yes, you technically qualify for the position in that respect. You would not be disqualified from a vote. Such a nomination would run it's course, and you either would or would not be elected based on the will of the users.

Now for the practical answer. This is based more on theory, conjecture, and my own (admittedly subjective) opinion on the question. Under How can I become an admin?, you'll see that “voters often look for...the candidate's level of activity in the community, helpfulness with users, an understanding of administrative tools, and good judgment.” Let's dissect that a little bit with some footnotes from previous RfAs.

Candidate's level of activity:

Well, you've only been on the wiki since April. That's only ten months, which isn't quite the time put in by most users before they become admins. I had fourteen months under my belt when I became an admin, TK-999 had twenty months, Goodwood had twelve, and Trak Nar had thirteen when she first was nominated (she declined then) and had twenty-five when she actually became an admin. You have to go back to Nacen, who had only six months before he became an admin, to find someone with less time than you, and Solus&mdash;who directly preceded him&mdash;had twenty-one months before she was an admin. “But Sav!” one might say, “It's quality, not quantity!” Fair enough. "“Age” is just a number"

- Brandon, discussing the merit of Star Wars Fanon “age” in RfAs

I'm going to let this examination of exact time segue into...

Helpfulness with users:

This is the most important not-actual-rule of RfAs. They live or die by this section, and I say that with kindness. Rather than try to explain this myself, I'm going to let the users tell you themselves. "100 Users were surveyed. The top four answers are on the board. When a Star Wars Fanon user is running for adminship, name something you look for in them."

- Steve Harvey

"'he’s proven to be a very tech savvy Wikian.' 'keep the wiki running smoothly.' 'he would become the tech admin here.' 'very code savvy.'"

- Number 4 Answer: Good with coding

"'His first 1,000-1,500 edits were virtually all clean up edits to articles that aren’t his.' 'his contributions show his immense care for the site.' 'contributions...[are] more than worthy.'"

- Number 3 Answer: Contributions

"'cleaning up articles that require a cleanup.' 'insane efforts in cleaning up articles.' 'cleaned up vandalism.' 'force to be reckoned with.'"

- Number 2 Answer: Cleanup

"'One of the key points there is helpfulness.' 'helpful individual.' 'extremely helpful user.'"

- Number 1 Answer: Helpfulness

As fun as our little Fanon Feud there was, you might be wondering what my point is? Well, I looked over your contributions, and you haven't really done anything related to cleaning up other users articles or helping them out with stuff. The only message wall conversations you've had are either asking me questions or collaborating on stories. Don't get me wrong, that's fine. In fact, I would say the collaborating is great. It just isn't particularly worthy of admin rights.

Understanding of administrative tools:

Granted, it's not easy to know administrative tools without being an administrator, but there are ways to get some practice. For example, if you go to my wall, you'll see that Firedance and Sakaros (among others) will often leave me a message when they see vandalism or other issue that should be brought to my attention. If you're serious about this, you could start keeping an eye on the recent changes and wiki activity, and you could leave me a message if you see issues. In some cases, you could even revert them yourself (for example, if an anon changes the content of a page in a manner that violates the editing policy but isn't malicious). You could help format pages. You could leave users helpful messages. This could lead to an eventual request for moderator rights, which would be a good step towards acclimating to admin tools before you have the biggest powers, namely the ability to block.

Speaking of blocking...

Good judgement:

I wouldn't say you have bad judgement! Unfortunately, I can't really speak to exactly what your judgement is. This circles back to the theme of helping others. I, and by extension the community, don't know what you're like under pressure. As an admin, you have the responsibility to step in when conversations get heated. You have to be able to keep cool. Thankfully, I've never had to deal with much personal attacking, but past admins have had to face lots of personal attacks. You have to be able to shrug that off. Personal conduct is massively important for admin considerations. Without going into specific details, I will simply say that the conduct of users seeking user rights has been a hot topic at times in the past. Your record certainly isn't working against you here, but it just as certainly isn't working for you.

In Summation: "In summation, you left New York for this [kriffing] shtetl..."

- Audra Levine [src]

In summation, practically speaking, I don't think you qualify for adminship currently. As Brandon once said to another users, “This is not a no forever, but rather a no for now.” In fact, I would strongly encourage you to take a look at his opposition vote here. In so many words, I'm more or less saying exactly what he said there. If you want to get a good idea about admin nominations in general, I would tell you to look over most of the RfA archive (you can ignore a lot of the early RfAs, as they bear little resemblance to the current structure, but many are quite relevant).

Let's be clear. I'm not saying this to crush your dreams of ever becoming an administrator here. I just don't think you're at a point where such a nomination would be successful. Based on your current projects, I'm also not really convinced it's something you want. What you're doing now is great, but it bears little resemblance to administration of the site. I want to be candid, because you deserve that from me. I apologize for the monstrously long message, but if I'm writing something, I'm going to write it right (see what I did there???) <- Hopefully I got a few laughs along the way too :P. If you have any questions or want some more clarifications on anything, please ask me. Thanks so much, and best of luck!