SmashWiki:Requests for bureaucratship

This page is for requesting that one become a Bureaucrat on the Smash Wiki.

Rules

• Only persons that are already sysops may request a position as a bureaucrat.
• Only self-nominations are allowed.
• All new nominees should post their name below as a in a level 3 header (===Username===). Underneath, the user should state why he/she would like to become an Bureaucrat. To prevent repetition of past information, all applicants should post a link to the archive of their RfA. Additionally, applicants should explain why they believe they should be a bureaucrat.
• Users who wish to support, oppose, or comment on the nomination may do so underneath the person requesting bureaucrat.
• After sufficient time has passed to allow all users who wish to express an opinion the chance to do so, a decision will be made based on community consensus as to whether or not the request will succeed. Once a decision has been made, the discussion will be archived and moved to an appropriate subpage.

Requests

Clarinet Hawk

Well, here I am. Given the current climate of the Smash Wiki and the certain changing of the guard that is taking place in the membership, I felt that it was prudent that we again begin discussion of administrative roles and responsibilities. However, before we can begin doing such a thing, we need to make sure that there are persons that are able to arbitrate such discussions. As Kirby King has stated that he cannot do this alone, and Charitwo's RfB seems to have stalled out, I have decided to request that I be given the responsibilities and roles of a bureaucrat. Before I get into why I am requesting it, I will give links to both my successful RfA and my contributions. Both of these I feel detail much of my content editing and previous administrative work. I will mostly allow those items to speak for themselves, but I will detail a few specific examples from them below.

First let me explain why I want to be a bureaucrat. Over the past few months, the wiki has seen a huge number of new RfAs followed by the complete (and possibly premature) closing of all of them. This ultimately was the right decision, but left out a few key steps that would have made it work better. The large number of people that were applying and the vote manufacturing that was occurring was taking valuable time away from content editing, and especially merging the page histories (now thankfully done). However, as there was no provision to reopen sysop nominations, this was at least partially a failure. While the RfA process is not in and of itself purely democratic, it is understandable that people would be embittered by the abrupt closing of all nominations with no discussion of the individual attributes of each nomination. As a bureaucrat, I have a solution to remedy the problem. I say remedy, not fix, as the damage from that problem has been done. We will have to start over, as too much time has passed for any of the previous RfAs to still be salient. What I propose is that we being a longer process of the road to adminship, and diversify the possession of tools. This would entail a Request for Rollback rights, which must be competed before beginning. By this measure, bureaucrats (hopefully including myself) could grant the tool of Rollback to deserving users. This would provide many advantages to the current system. Firstly, many users are requesting to become sysops simply to be able to revert vandalism. This provides a way for the community to grant them this ability without conferring upon them other responsibilities of adminship. Secondly, providing more users the ability to revert vandalism will allow the administrators more time to focus on other responsibilities. Finally, by requiring that users first have a successful RfR before an RfA allows the community to judge the requester's ability to use one of the tools that is granted to sysops. I propose this plan as being my first act if I am chosen to become a bureaucrat.

As for my personal qualifications to become a bureaucrat, I again point to my previous RfA. I have shown a great deal of dedication to this wiki since even before I was promoted to sysop. I merged many of the page histories from back when Wikia and the Smash Wiki merged. I have also had to arbitrate many user disputes and edit wars. I have always kept a level head through these and discussed them with all parties involved. Yet I have also been stern about the rules and what is expected of users. When it has come to having to administrate in the cases of block worthy content, my leaning has be to always avoid permanent or long term blocks except in the case of vandal accounts. I have done what I could to keep this wiki together during some difficult arguments between users and always tried to stress that every person can have something positive to contribute to this wiki. As a bureaucrat, my goal would be to help users get the tools they deserve to help this wiki and to continue to arbitrate user disputes. I welcome any and all questions, support, or criticism at this time. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 17:19, 24 September 2008 (UTC)