GTA Wiki:Requests for Promotion/July 2015 Administrator Election/AndreEagle17

Here's my admin cases.

Case 1
(Based on an incident at Grand Theft Wiki)

A new user, John123 has made somewhere between 20-30 edits. They have all been minor edits but good - correcting spelling and grammar in articles and occasionally fixing the format of something. In the article Love Fist, he changes which instruments the band members play without leaving an edit summary. John123 is reverted by a patroller named CowboyPatroller, who uses rollback to undo the edit. John123 makes the same edit again, leaving the edit summary "maybe you should play the game, if you did you'd know I'm right". CowboyPatroller reverts him with rollback again. John123 makes the same edit for a third time, this time with the edit summary "STOP UNDOING MY EDIT YOU STUPID PRICK". CowboyPatroller rollbacks his edit again, and then tells you. For the sake of this question, you don't know which members of Love Fist play what instrument. What would you do?


 * First of all, right or wrong, users shouldn't be offensive to each other, if John123 was right, he should've sent a message to CowboyPatroller. CowboyPatroller on the other hand, shouldn't be strict, if he doesn't know about John123's edit, he should check it out before reverting anyone's edit. Result of the case? John123 is blocked for 3 weeks and CowboyPatroller is warned about his unacceptable behavior and that he will be demoted if he does that again.

Case 2
(Based on the Rigby2000/Dodo/Sasquatch incident)

A brand new editor, Newbie200, makes an article called When Do i Get Trevor? The 'article' is a question about how long he has to play GTAV before Trevor becomes playable. Newbie200's written English is so bad that it's almost incomprehensible - he uses capital letters and punctuation almost at random and he frequently uses netspeak ('u' instead of 'you', '&' instead of 'and'). A regular user with no special rights and no prior history of bad behavior, GTAFAN316, nominates the article for deletion with the comment "lrn2wiki". CowboyPatroller reverts GTAFAN316 with the edit summary "Don't be mean dude" but doesn't otherwise talk to Newbie200 or GTAFAN316. Who do you think was out of line? As an administrator, what do you say and to whom?


 * I'd say that GTAFAN316 or CowboyPatroller should have copied all content from Newbie200's article and added a Forum to paste all the content, THEN putting the page for deletion. GTAFAN316 was very rude with his edit summary and he should have left Newbie200 a message regarding his grammar and his article creation. CowboyPatroller wasn't wrong but he could have told Newbie200 about the situation either.

Case 3
(Based on something a semi-active member of this wiki did)<

An editor has been uploading images and refusing to follow the image policy. He has been warned by a bureaucrat and blocked for refusing to follow the rules three months ago. He has continued to upload images - he now names them correctly but he doesn't bother with a license. When confronted on that he says "I don't bother with that only women care about such things". The bureaucrat who warned and blocked the user 3 months ago has said nothing about this. What do you do about this?


 * Another block for the rude comment. When an user have no idea of how image policy works, we teach him how it works, but if he refuses to listen, he should be blocked. One thing is; trying to understand how image policy works. The other thing is; Knowing how it works but refusing to understand.


 * We shouldn't be so mean with the first type of users btw, we lost good contributors and photographers because of it.

Case 4
(Loosely based on an argument Messi1983 and McJeff had)

A user named TheWikiKid says on his userpage that he is 10 years old. Bureaucrat01 blocks TheWikiKid for being underage and in violation of the Wikia-wide rule that says you must be 13 to edit. TheWikiKid posts on Bureaucrat02's Community Central talk page that he was only joking and that he's really 16, and so Bureaucrat02 unblocks him. Bureaucrat01 immediately reblocks him with the comment "he might be lying and he was causing trouble anyway". Bureaucrat02 re-unblocks with the comment "no he wasn't". The two bureaucrats start wheel-warring (undoing each other's admin actions) and swearing at each other on their talk pages about the incident.

"Stay out of it" is an acceptable answer but it is not the only acceptable answer.


 * Unprofessional. Stay out of it is not an acceptable answer, the two bureaucrats should told polietely to the user first, then decide whether to block a user or not. They should contact the third bureaucrat too if necessary.

Case 5
(Based on an incident with a user on this wiki named NT92)

GTA92 is a long term editor. His contributions are sometimes good, but he has a history of being argumentative - especially with staff. He's been blocked twice, once for a day once for a week, but both blocks are over a year old. He adds some The Sky Is Blue type trivia to an article, which you revert with rollback. He reverts you with the edit summary "You can't delete it just because you don't like it, 'sysop.'"


 * He is very immature and I think he should be demoted, we had staff members who thought that they were always right, which is definitely not right. He doesn't discuss with other staff members nor he knows how things should be done. Demotion request on demand.

Case 5b
In addition to what was described in Case 5, GTA92 then follows you to two other articles and reverts your edits with the edit summary "wrong" for both of them. How do you handle this?


 * Totally childish. Like "If I cant edit, u cant either". Why do we have staff members like that anyway?<

Case 6
(Based on the time period of open hostility between GTA Wiki and Grand Theft Wiki)

A long term user on GTA Wiki named GTAmaniac decides to switch his affiliation to Grand Theft Wiki. He does this by announcing this on his user page. He also begins sending messages to other active users on GTA Wiki encouraging them to join him in switching affiliation to the other wiki. CowboyPatroller starts reverting the messages encouraging others to switch wikis. In response, users from the other wiki come over to this one and vandalize CowboyPatroller's user page and talk page. Grand Theft Wiki's owner Gboyers says that although he doesn't personally approve of his users vandalizing this wiki, it's outside his jurisdiction and so he won't even tell them to stop.
 * Gboyers is mature and smart to disapprove vandalism even if he hates the people here. Users from the GTW are immature to vandalize other people's page just because they don't like people here, CowboyPatroller is also immature, whether to leave this wiki or not, it's people's choice, not ours. I personally would not leave this wiki to join another just because I don't like people here.