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 voted in as administrators will be put on a month's trial.

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

Dunewolfz - Patroller
I wouldn't normally consider applying for something like this but a couple of users, mainly Russelnorthrop, ExtremoMania, and Ilan xd all suggested I should be one, (see the conversation here). So far what I've done is fixed minor things (i.e. typos, picture locations, and links), I've also removed the scripts from various missions across the articles. I don't have a particularly large collection of GTA games, only GTA III, San Andreas, and GTA IV. I don't have a large amount of edits (roughly 100 as of today), but I am an admin at the MotorStorm Wiki and an assistant (rollbacker) at the Burnout Wiki. I have some experience with coding, (I took a programming course freshman year of college). I'm fairly busy so editing wikis is more of a side hobby to me. I personally feel I should have more edits before applying for something like this, but I'll do what others say (hence why I'm here). I don't believe I have violated any rules, and I'm pretty sure I've been on here for two months. Well, that's all I have to say, it won't matter to me personally if I do/don't become a Patroller. I suppose I'll be asked a few questions, so I'll answer those to the best of my ability. Tenga buen dia, 23:29, April 6, 2012 (UTC)

Votes

 * Yes - RusselNorthrop (Talk2Me--Contribs) 23:33, April 6, 2012 (UTC)
 * No (for now) - Messi1983 00:28, April 7, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - Jeff (talk|stalk)
 * Yes - ExtremoMania   Talk To Me This Way  02:34, April 7, 2012 (UTC)

Comments

 * Your the only consistent non-staff on the site. Well done. ;) - RusselNorthrop (Talk2Me--Contribs) 23:33, April 6, 2012 (UTC)
 * Voted no, because we have too many staff members for the time being. Messi1983 00:28, April 7, 2012 (UTC)
 * We may be supposed to keep a limited number of administrators but I see no reason to restrict patrollers. Jeff (talk|stalk) 01:54, April 7, 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree with Jeff. We are having a small number of patrollers as I'm the only patroller. :) - ExtremoMania   Talk To Me This Way  02:34, April 7, 2012 (UTC)

Russelnorthrop - Administrator
Hello fellow GTAWiki Staff and Users. I, Russelnorthrop (Linx), would like to become an Administrator of this site, and I think the site itself would benefit if I was.

As you know, I'm already a Patroller of this site, and have been for a while now. I've reverted and undone a lot of spam, vandalism and just plain rudeness. The wiki now has a shrinking amount of staff, with GTANiKo, Haruhi and Tom Reed having been inactive for the past three months or so. This means that more and more staff are needed to handle the site, especially with the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto V. If I'm voted to become an Administrator I promise to handle everything with responsibility and pride. I feel that I'm also ready to give out formal warnings to irresponsible and vandal users, which will also be beneficial to the wiki.

I promise that if I am given the chance to become and administrator of this great website, I will do all that is needed, no matter what, to make this site better. I will take the opportunity with maturity and I'll never abuse my powers. Rising amounts of vandalism is occurring here, and I want to help remove it and discipline the people committing it, and this is one of the main reasons I would like to be an administrator, to keep this site spick-n-spam.

I have a large knowledge of the Grand Theft Aito series, now owning III, VC, SA, LCS, IV, TBoGT, TLAD and CW, and I'll definitely be getting V when it's released. This is obviously a large advantage when editing here, as I know what to add, what to remove and what to change.

I hope you can see my view on this, and feel free to ask questions in the questions section below. Thanks!

RusselNorthrop (Talk2Me--Contribs) 06:10, April 4, 2012 (UTC)

Votes

 * Yes - Ilan ( XD &bull; Edits &bull; Home ) 06:18, April 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * YES - ExtremoMania   Talk To Me This Way  12:38, April 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - Messi1983 09:53, April 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - Tom Talk 13:49, April 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - Jeff (talk|stalk)

Comments

 * You did a very good work here. -- Ilan ( XD &bull; Edits &bull; Home ) 06:18, April 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * I know you can do it mate. Cheers for another admin. ExtremoMania   Talk To Me This Way  12:38, April 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * 4 votes of 'Yes'. I think we can close that request as passed. -- Ilan ( XD &bull; Edits &bull; Home ) 14:54, April 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * 5 votes of yes, this is now closed. Messi1983 19:51, April 5, 2012 (UTC)

Questions

 * A user keep editing false information into a page, after being asked in past to stop. As an admin, what will you do? -- Ilan ( XD &bull; Edits &bull; Home ) 06:18, April 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Ilan, and Thanks for voting 'yes' for me! If a user was adding completely false info onto a page. I would give them a firm but fair warning telling them that this kind of behaviour won't be put up with here, and I'd tell him that if he did it again, he'd be given a warning of 5-7 days, depending on his response, civility, and level of vandalism. Then if he actually DID vandalise more, I'd carry out my actions of what I told him and he would be banned/blocked for a certain time limit. RusselNorthrop (Talk2Me--Contribs) 06:27, April 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll probably vote yes, but I've got a question I'd like you to answer first. This question doesn't have a "correct" answer and it's a fairly improbable situation, but I'd like to know how you think you might handle it. Jeff (talk|stalk) 08:18, April 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * Q: User "Alpha" has about 200 contributions. His article contributions are usually fairly good, but he's been warned for edit warring once and warned for personal attacks once. User "Beta" has about 20 contributions. None of them are vandalism, but almost all of them have been reverted for various reasons (grammar so bad his sentences didn't make any sense, adding useless trivia). The two of them get in an edit war on an article. You can't settle the dispute because you don't know which one of them is correct. What do you do?
 * Hmmmm... Well the first thing I would do is contact another staff who knows much about the topic, and then I'd change the previous revision to the correct statement. If User Alpha had not already conversed with Beta about the topic, as he has already been warned for a previous edit war I'd give him a ban/block for a week or so, depending on the severity of the war(s). I'd also give User Beta a friendly warning reminding him that if he ever gets into an edit war then he/she should directly contact the other User on their talk page to discuss the issue. I hope this is a worthy answer! :) RusselNorthrop (Talk2Me--Contribs) 08:56, April 5, 2012 (UTC)

Ilan xd - Administrator
Hello there, my name is Ilan xd, and I'm requesting adminship on the GTA wiki.

I would to become an admin due to the a somewhat "big" 'amount' of the inactive staff members such as Niko, Tom R. and Haruhi.

Since my 'arrival' to this wiki here, I've undone various vadalism acts and "bad edits", expanded many articles (such as characters, missions, events, gangs, weapons, and even vehicles), informed about vandals, and cleaned up a few articles from speculations. Other than that, this wiki has became very active since the announcement of GTA 5 and I think that you'll need more 'admin force' here when the game will be released.

I've already made one request, but I don't want to talk about that. Since then, I've became more experienced with wikis: I am a Bureaucrat on Rockstar Games Wiki, Gangstar Wiki, and Red Dead Answers. I am a Moderator on both L.A. Noire and Red Dead wikis. I'm also active on the Max Payne wiki.

I would like also to answer a question that Jeff asked me:


 * A user has made 20 good edits. In his 21st edit, he made a mistake and someone undoes it. He goes user's talk page who undoes the edit, angrily saying "stupid freak, why did you undo a perfectly good information?". As an admin how would you respond to that situation: would you block him forever, block him in a week and just give him a warning, or just give him a warning and continue to edit?


 * Answer:I will give a warning to that user, and if he will continue with his behavior, I will block him for three days.

As for my GTA info - I played every game in the series, except GTA London. I know that being a big fan of GTA is not everything, but I have a large knowledge about the series. My favorite game is GTA IV.

Another important notice is that, as most of you guys know, English is not my first language, but I still have a high level of English, and every minute on Wikia, makes it better.

Safety and Peace. -- Ilan ( XD &bull; Edits &bull; Home ) 14:01, April 3, 2012 (UTC)

PS if you want to ask me questions, do that.

Votes

 * YES - ExtremoMania   Talk To Me This Way  14:26, April 3, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - RusselNorthrop (Talk2Me--Contribs) 21:39, April 3, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - Tom Talk 22:35, April 3, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - Messi1983 06:48, April 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - He's been contributing well for a long time and I think he's ready.

Comments

 * You've been earning this request for long enough and now the most trusted staff. ExtremoMania   Talk To Me This Way  14:26, April 3, 2012 (UTC)
 * As Extremo said, you've definitely earns it and deserve it mate! I really hope you get it and I'm pretty sure you will. ;) RusselNorthrop (Talk2Me--Contribs) 21:39, April 3, 2012 (UTC)
 * This user has been known to get offended at the smallest things. Which is why I have voted no. Messi1983 07:16, April 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey, I said this as a joke! -- Ilan ( XD &bull; Edits &bull; Home ) 07:23, April 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm leaning towards "yes", but I do have a general comment. Advertising the amount of wikis you're staff on isn't by itself an overly compelling argument. Wikia will let any editor who asks make a wiki and appoint them as bureaucrat. I've edited on one wiki where the bureaucrat didn't know the difference between a "forum" and a "topic", and here on GTA Wikia, former administrator Crescendospectredragon thought that deleting someone's user page was the same thing as deleting their account. Severing on staff on multiple wikis is fine, but I'm more likely to be impressed by good contributions and edits rather than a list of wikis you're staff on. The way I see it anyone who can figure out how to write good contributions can figure out how to staff. Jeff (talk|stalk) 08:28, April 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * I have changed my mind and voted yes as you said it was a joke. With the trial basis applying to new admins added to this wiki, we'll see in a month whether you're good as an admin or not. Anyways with 4 yes votes, this looks like a pass, and I'll promote you now. Messi1983 10:13, April 5, 2012 (UTC)

Questions
To put it in plaintalk, the reason "wheel warring" is so bad is because it's comparable to police drawing their weapons on each other. Edit-warring is wrong in the first place, but staffers using their staff tools to edit war with each other is just beyond the pale because staffers are supposed to know better. The correct way to deal with a block you disagree with is to ask the blocking editor why he blocked as long as he did. Usually excessively long blocks are either because of a bad day in real life, or sometimes just an accident and usually the blocking admin will shorten the block. If he refuses, then you should request that a third admin look into it. Jeff (talk|stalk) 08:33, April 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * If another administrator has blocked a user and you disagree with the block or the time length, what would you do? Messi1983 05:06, April 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll either shorten it or remove it, accordingly to that user's actions - if he did a single vadalism act, I'll just give him a warning; If he did more than one vandalism act, I'll give him a 3-7 days block. I'll try to compromise with that admin, and we both try to find a fair solution for that user's block. If that admin refuses, I'll ask a bureaucrat to find a fair compromise. I hope you understand my answer. -- Ilan ( XD &bull; Edits &bull; Home ) 05:39, April 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * Understood your answer. But never change the block without discussion first, as it can lead to wheel warring (two admins changing something like a block back and forth without discussion). Messi1983 07:52, April 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * This wasn't a good answer, but we don't have "Don't Wheel War" written anywhere on this site and this may be the first time Ilan's ever heard the phrase. Dan/Messi and I were both editors on Wikipedia before we ever came to Wikia, and so we're familiar with a lot of wiki-terminology that users who haven't spent much time on Wikipedia aren't.
 * Hmmm, I see my mistakes here. And you are right, I'm not familiar with that phrase, though I heard that a few times. -- Ilan ( XD &bull; Edits &bull; Home ) 09:26, April 5, 2012 (UTC)

White&amp;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)

Votes

 * No - Russelnorthrop  ||  talk to me  19:31, February 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * No - Tom Talk 19:43, February 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * No (as in "Not Yet") - Jeff (talk|stalk)
 * No - Winter Moon 00:08, February 22, 2012 (UTC)
 * No - Messi1983 13:30, February 24, 2012 (UTC)

Comments

 * for the time being. Get your edit count up a bit more, 300+ should only take a month or so. :) Russelnorthrop  ||  talk to me  19:31, February 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * You haven't helped out enough and the fact that you're not a vandal and that you disagree with vandalism doesn't really qualify you for the position, the majority or users are not vandals and feel the same way about vandals as you. Keep editing and helping out and apply again in a month or so :). Tom Talk 19:43, February 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * So far your edits look pretty good, but having less than 200 just isn't enough to promote. I'd also like to see you get active in policy and community discussions before applying to be staff, since it is staff responsibility to participate in community discussions. Jeff (talk|stalk) 23:56, February 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * I have to agree with the previous votes; I think all that you need is a little more time and experience, and then I think you'd make an even better patroller. Winter Moon 00:08, February 22, 2012 (UTC)
 * What? When this request was posted?! Man, I wasn't realy active here. -- Ilan ( Talk to me &bull; Edits &bull; Home ) 16:35, February 22, 2012 (UTC)
 * I am going to say no for now. Try in a month or so. Closing this request due to the amount of no votes. Messi1983 13:30, February 24, 2012 (UTC)
 * Try to make more edits on this wiki, that way you can be accepted in the future. Try not to lose hope man and you may get your request someday, just KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! I'm counting on you. ExtremoMania   Talk To Me This Way  9:51 AM February 24, 2012 (UTC)

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)