GTA Wiki:Requests for Promotion

Welcome to GTA Wiki:Requests for Promotion.

You may apply for Rollback Rights or Administrator privileges on this noticeboard. To do so, you must meet the prerequisites, and then state what position you are looking for and why you think you need the rollback and/or administrator tools.

At this time the community has not decided how to handle Bureaucratship, and there is no method of requesting a promotion to Bureaucrat. Requests for Oversight and Checkuser must be done at Wikia Central (and they'll probably be declined).

Rollback is a tool that allows users to quickly revert vandalism.

Administrators have the power to block and ban users, protect pages, move images, and delete pages and images, in addition to rollback.

To qualify for rollback rights, editors must have been active for two months with no rules violations. Rollbackers must receive a 60% 'yes' percentage to be promoted.

To qualify for administrator rights, editors must have been active for four months with no rules violations. Administrators must receive a 70% 'yes' percentage to be promoted.

Editors with rollback and administrator experience on other wikis are encouraged to apply, and based on the editor in question exceptions may be made to the length of time editing required for promotion.

When applying for promotion, a community vote will take place. Voting lasts 7 days, although it may be allowed to run shorter (in the case of an obvious pass/fail) or longer (in the case of a very close vote) at sysop discretion.

Please submit your requests at the top of the "Active requests" page subsection.

Requests where the voting has finished can be found at GTA Wiki:Requests for Promotion/Archived Requests

Active requests

 * Closed 17:06, September 11, 2011 (UTC) as Unsuccessful  - McJeff (talk this way)/(stalk this way)

User:Ilan xd - Administrator
Hi, it's Ilan. I'm asking a request for admin. I editing here for a while, expanding articles and watching after pages. I want to be an admin here 'cause now most admin are not active and severel others are no more admins, and I think that I was proving myself as a friend of this wiki and a helpful user. I'v also started a new wiki about a game that will be develop by Rockstar,. Thanks, Ilan XD -- Ilan xd 15:56, September 7, 2011 (UTC)

Votes

 * No - Dan the Man 1983 15:29, September 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * No - McJeff (talk this way)/(stalk this way)
 * No - Gboyers talk 11:54, September 10, 2011 (UTC)

Comments

 * We've promoted underqualified users to administrator positions based on "no bad contributions", but if Crescendospectredragon and Bunnyjoke have taught us anything it's that decent edits don't automatically make a good administrator. So instead I'm going to ask you a question about what you'd do. Answer to the best of your ability. McJeff (talk this way)/(stalk this way) 06:22, September 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Question: A user has made about 20 good edits. His 21st edit is incorrect and someone undoes it. He goes to the user's talk page and flames him by calling him a "stupid prick". As an administrator what would you do?
 * The English in your application above is not very good ("severel", "I editing here"), so I'm not sure you would be able to carry out the role effectively. Perhaps English is not your first language, which is no bad thing, but I think an English wiki needs fluent staff to be able to understand everything, and judge and rewrite the work of others. Also, your profile says "I have a very short fuse so I getting anger very fast" which is not how an Administrator should be. Gboyers talk 12:03, September 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * I think you got a point there Gboyers regarding his short fuse and English language skills. So, for those two reasons alone, I am saying no. Dan the Man 1983 13:24, September 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * By the way I do like the idea of questioning those who apply to see what they would do in certain situations. Dan the Man 1983 13:45, September 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Due to lack of response, changing my vote to no. McJeff (talk this way)/(stalk this way) 17:06, September 11, 2011 (UTC)

Wonderwaffle - Patroller

 * Closed 17:55, September 10, 2011 (UTC) as  Unsuccessful  - McJeff (talk this way)/(stalk this way)

My username is WonderWaffle, I am requesting for this promotion becuase ive been playing gta since 2002, i know alot about The Series, and the Decline In staff [The Tom and BunnyJoke Resigned] and ive been editing alot, but i dont have much time because im caught up with school and stuff. Im hoping you will see this through and accept me into the GTA Wiki Staff.

Thanks ฬ๏ภ๔єгฬคŦŦlє 23:04, September 2, 2011 (UTC)

Votes

 * Undecided - Ilan xd 13:16, September 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * No - Dan the Man 1983 13:29, September 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * No - McJeff (talk this way)/(stalk this way)
 * No - Gboyers talk 11:54, September 10, 2011 (UTC)

Comments

 * I don't know. You have less then 100 edits, but you are good editor. I want to see what others will write about you. -- Ilan xd 13:16, September 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * Two or three more weeks of good editing like you have been doing and I'll vote yes, until then it is a no due to edit count. Dan the Man 1983 13:29, September 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * At least one wiki I edit specifies users must have 700 edits before they ask for rollback. I initially didn't like that policy, but with the number of editors requesting promotion almost immediately I'm thinking we might ought to put some sort of rule similar to that one in place.  Also if it wasn't clear I agree with the "you're doing a fine job but you haven't been active long enough to be promoted" stance the others have taken. McJeff (talk this way)/(stalk this way) 06:11, September 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Your application above doesn't say anything about why you should be staff. A lot of people know a lot about GTA games, but not everyone is suitable to be staff. Do you understand what is involved? Gboyers talk 11:54, September 10, 2011 (UTC)