GTA Wiki:Requests for Promotion/Jan 2014 Administrator Election/Sasquatch101

Case 1
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?


 * A: I would tell Cowboy Patroller that instead of reverting back John123's edits three times he should of discussed the reason why John123's edits are incorrect. If John persisted he should have been warned that he will be blocked for a day for starting an edit war. If John for a third time did an inaccurate edit then he should be blocked for one day.

Case 2
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?


 * A: As an Admin I would say that Cowboy patroller was wrong and that GTAFAN316 is right in the fact that Newbie200 is making edits that are confusing and are not consistent with the way the wiki's information is presented. GTAFAN316 may be a little blunt, but he is still right in this case and it should be Cowboy Patroller who should be patrolling the wiki and looking for editors such as Newbie200 who are confused with how the wiki works. So in closing, Cowboy patroller should be the one to explain to lost editors how the wiki works and direct them to the wiki's Policy page.

Case 3
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?


 * A: In regards to the user who uploads images without proper licensing. I am aware that all images uploaded to the wiki MUST have a verified licensing. So I would warn the user that he must comply with Wikia's image policy and that he must select the proper licensing in the drop down menu when uploading an image to the wiki. I would also notify the Bureaucrat who had previously blocked this user for not following the policy about the current situation.

Case 4
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.


 * ''A: Both Bureaucrats have there reasons for the way they are acting. Assume good faith would have to be the rule I stick with in a situation such as this because the TheWikiKid may have just been kidding around about being 10 and there is no solid evidence that proves he is 10. So as an admin I would offer up this advice to the Bureaucrats so the wiki isn't in turmoil.

Case 5
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.'"

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?


 * ''A: GTA92 presents a big threat as he follows me to other wikis and harasses me. I would go to him directly and tell him to leave me alone or I will report him and get him blocked. If he persisted I would go to the wiki where the disagreement originated from and explain the situation to the acting Bureaucrat and try and get him blocked for the obvious reasons. If he continued to follow me to other wikis I would contact one of Wikia's vandal and spam team members and try and get him blocked globally across Wikia's network.

Case 6
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.


 * ''A: I would tell Cowboy Patroller not to get involved as it will start a war between the wiki and it's users. Instead I would notify GTAmaniac that he may edit Grand Theft Wiki if he wishes, but he can not solicit other users on the GTA Wiki to join the Grand theft Wiki. If he still solicited the GTA Wiki's users I would block him for a day. I would also talk to Gboyers and say that we at the GTA Wiki will block users that try and solicit our users and would ask if he would enact a similar rule on the Grand Theft Wiki so there would be no war between the wikis as in this way users could edit both wikis if they wanted.