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.

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. Those applying for adminship will likely be asked questions on how they deal with certain situations. This is to see if a user has the capabilities of being an administrator.

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

Russelnorthrop - Patroller
Hi, My name is Lincoln. I live in Australia and have been a massive fan of GTA since Vice City. I have a large knowledge of the series and own 7 of them. Recently, a couple large edits that I've made have been changed by new people to the wiki, and changed massively. However, I was unable to undo the edit for some reason (it said for intermediate reasons or something along those lines). I would like to have more rights, just so I can revert edits like these and keep the wiki in shape and free of vandalism. For a long period of time I was having computer problems where it took about 2 minutes for the edit screen to appear, so I took a break from here until that was sorted. But now it's fixed and I'm planning on making alot more edits in the future. So far I've made 650+ edits, alot of them cleaning up vandalism and even fixing up the smallest of mistakes. As I said, I have a large knowledge of the GTA series, and would be happy to check up on anything on the 7 games I own (3, VC, SA, IV, TBoGT, TLAD, CTW).

The only problem I've ever had with editing was one occasion when I uploaded a photo without providing a source. This was during my computer issues and was cleared up with McJeff. It was just because my computer wasn't loading the whole page and all boxes.

It would be great if you could take me up on my request for Patroller, as I think I could be of big help to this wiki. Thanks. :) Russelnorthrop 10:33, February 3, 2012 (UTC)

Votes

 * Yes - Messi1983 12:26, February 3, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - Jeff (talk|stalk)
 * Yes - Ilan xd 14:30, February 3, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - Tom Talk 16:24, February 3, 2012 (UTC)

Comments

 * And I'd just like to comment in Russellnorthrop's defense (not that he needs it now since this is obviously going to be an easy pass), but my giving him a hard time over the images was during that period when I was being way too absolutist about the image policy, and shouldn't be seen as a problem with him. Jeff (talk|stalk) 16:38, February 3, 2012 (UTC)
 * Now closing as obvious pass. Messi1983 01:59, February 4, 2012 (UTC)

ExtremoMania - Patroller
Hello everyone, for the entire GTA Wiki:Staff and good evening; My user name is ExtremoMania and I would like to become a Patroller of this wiki. Since I joined this wiki, I first made a lot of mistakes including adding wrong information; but as I have continued to edit a lot in this wiki, I begin to follow substansial rules of his wiki, including undoing wrong and spam edits and protect pages from adding wrong information. The reason why I chose this is because a lot of users especially Haruhi Suzumiya and Ilan xd wanted me to enlist as a new patroller. I hope that I'am fully qualified for this position because in less than 1 month, I have made over 250 edits as of today. If I'am qualified, I will make sure that no one adds incorrect information to other pages and correct spam and warning other users from adding incorrect information. So I will leave it to all of you and Thank U!

ExtremoMania 10:38 PM, January 27, 2012 (UTC)

Votes

 * Yes - 涼宮ハルヒ(Suzumiya Haruhi) 16:27, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - Ilan xd 18:49, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - Tom Talk 16:23, February 1, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - Messi1983 12:22, February 3, 2012 (UTC)

Comments

 * From the start this guy has exhibited a good mastery of the GTA games he has played. He is also active in cleaning up spam from pages, and in correcting typos and grammatical errors. 涼宮ハルヒ(Suzumiya Haruhi) 16:27, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * Extremo made a very good work. Same as Haruhi. I think he'll be a good patroller. -- Ilan xd 18:49, January 27, 2012 (UTC)

Winter Moon - Administrator
My (user)name is Winter Moon, and I think that all of you are familiar with me, and I would like to become an administrator on the GTA wiki. I wanted to wait to apply for two reasons; A. I only had GTA IV for a while, and I didn't really know much about the older series, and B. I wanted a little more experience. Well, now I have both Vice City and San Andreas, and I am currently playing through Vice City, and I have gotten over 2,000 edits as of today. Now, I think that the problems we will be dealing with in the near future include all the usual petty vandalism, as well as people making pages about Tommy Vercetti definitely being in GTA V, Bigfoot definitely being in GTA V, and that San Fierro and Las Venturas will definitely be in GTA V. So, um, here's to the future! Winter Moon 14:41, January 16, 2012 (UTC)

Votes

 * YES - Ilan xd 15:31, January 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - Tom Talk 16:20, January 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - Messi1983 09:41, January 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - 涼宮ハルヒ(Suzumiya Haruhi) 11:19, January 20, 2012 (UTC)

Comments

 * This is an easy yes for me, you have shown that you would make a great administrator during your time as a Patroller and I can't think of a reason to say no. Tom Talk 16:20, January 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * I was the one who asked him a few months ago to apply for adminship. Messi1983 09:41, January 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * I've seen a lot of this guys edits. I think he is doing a good job in keeping vandalism out of the wiki. Also his getting VC and SA is a smart move, that will help him learn more about the GTA series. 涼宮ハルヒ(Suzumiya Haruhi) 11:19, January 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * As this has been open for nearly 5 days and cannot see anymore votes on this. This request has been accepted. Messi1983 14:23, January 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * I would've voted yes if I'd been paying attention to RfP at the time. Jeff (talk|stalk) 16:38, February 3, 2012 (UTC)

White&Gold - Patroller

 * I would like to apply for a role as a "Patroller", as I have been a fan of GTA for the best part of 10 years (end of February as I got GTA 3 then for my birthday), I have completed all of the GTA 3 era games and all of the GTA 4 era games, I like the GTA 3 era the most, as I found it more entertaining than GTA 4, I sometimes like to start a new game (be it GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories or Vice City) every so often to see what I could find in cutscenes or whilst playing it that I hadn't had noticed before when I was playing, I think my favourite GTA game is GTA 3, I like the radio stations (MSX, Game Radio and Rise FM are my favourite) the game play, the missions and the characters, my favourite characters are Claude and Maria and my favourite gangs are The South Side Hoods, The Yardies, Leone Mafia and The Diablos, why I want to be a patroller is I don't agree with vandalism, I see it as pointless, stupid and a complete waste of time, you don't have to prove that you're hard because you have deleted someone's edit and changed it with stuff that has no relevance with the page, I get along with people, I think I would call myself a people person and I haven't had a bad rep on this page, I don't go around vandalising pages, I don't think I've ever had a cross word with anyone on this page and I haven't had any warnings about my edits, so I think I would be good for that position.

I hope I have convinced you guys into making a decision; be it good or bad and I will look forward to hear what you have to say. White&amp;Gold 19:00, February 21, 2012 (UTC)