SmashWiki:Requests for adminship/Disaster Flare (2)

Disaster Flare (talk • contribs • edit count • RFA page)

Candidate, please summarize why you are running for adminship below.

So it's been how long, like 3, maybe 4 months, since my last almost victory fiasco of an application. I had the following, but I did not have the contributions nor the experience to prove I was eligible at the time, and, looking back, I will agree that application was much too soon. Anyway, my plans in adminship are still the same: Easygoing and not super strict, but is still willing to put my foot down in cases where I need to be strict, as well as being an extra helping hand for anyone as much as possible.

I'd like to say I've done a good job of that, but I'm the worst judge of my own work, so I highly recommend checking out my qualifications page for any questions this doesn't answer, as well as for examples of different cases where I got involved in something. One of my strongest qualities I'd say I have is dispute handling, as well as good communication skills with users, especially the newer ones. I've also made a numerous amount of large contributions, including but not limited to:

• Creation of three different articles, with the latter being the one I'm most proud of.
• Massive contribution to coverage of the SSB4 DLC in the uploading department, specifically for Cloud, Corrin, and Bayonetta.
• Mass fixing of smasher articles with deprecated code.
• Removed the stub tag from approximately 500 articles that didn't need them.
• Added trophy information to all articles that needed them
• Created and uploaded gifs for almost every SSB4 victory pose.

If you'd like to see a full list of the contributions I've done that I've considered notable, please refer to here, as I am constantly updating it as I contribute to the wiki. Last but not least, my edit count has increased heavily since my last application, going from mere hundreds all the way to where it is now, at over 8,000 and counting. Additionally, my mentor Serpent King has been a great teacher to me, as he's been teaching me wiki markup, as well as commenting on my mistakes I should feel bad for good work. I think that's about all I have to say really, if you have any questions, please direct them to the comments section. I am open to all forms of criticism, and I will do my best to answer any and all comments. Regardless if this application succeeds or fails, I will still strive to improve as a user and person, and I still have plenty of projects in mind for the future. Thank you for your consideration and I wish everyone the best of luck in their future on the wiki. :D Disaster Flare (talk) 01:36, 4 March 2016 (EST)

Support

1. Honestly, this guy's been pretty helpful and knowledgeable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Unowninator (talk • contribs) 01:47, 4 March 2016 (EST)
2. Weak support. DF has demonstrated the necessary professionalism, dedication, and temperament that admins require. While there have been a couple minor issues with SW:1RV, I don't think it's extremely consequential, and I have no doubt in my mind the wiki would be much better off with Disaster Flare as an admin. Nyargleblargle (Contribs) 09:32, 4 March 2016 (EST)
3. Support. Despite the recent blocking of a dangerous enough IP from which came several vandalism, I feel we could use another admin, knowing DF is almost always active (though rarely past midnight) and that there are times only SK is active, other times only Miles, and others times, but very rarely, Nyargle and OT. DF is also wise, dedicated and professional enough to fill for the job. -- BeepYou, a user with no grammar at all :v (talk) 10:53, 4 March 2016 (EST)
4. Support as per reasons above. MuteSpittah (talk) 11:49, 4 March 2016 (EST)
5. Support. I'm not sure if we need more admins, but the number of admins should not be a deterrent for an RFA. In the months since his last RFA, DF has proven to be an active, knowledgeable, and helpful user who is capable of handling disputes, the major testing point for any potential admin. We may have a lot of admins, but you can never have too many. We would certainly be better off with DF as an admin than without. John PK SMAAAASH!! 12:16, 4 March 2016 (EST)
6. Support Echoing BeepYou. Aidan, the Wandering Dragon Warrior 14:45, 4 March 2016 (EST)
7. Where to begin my support for this Disater Flare is a very active person, willing to stay up for a long time (sometimes past 3:00 am), doing mass products (namely the gif. uploads of all SSB4 characters that took 6 or so hours) and general editing. As well, he's an admin on the SSBD wiki, so he has some experience being an admin. Seeing the qualifying page makes me feel even stronger about his admin ship. Even though we have had some bad blood in the past, I believe he is the best candidate at the moment. Finally, about the "We have enough admins" gibberish, while I agree, I feel a good and safe thing for the wiki would be to have at least one admin on all day (Example: Serpent King stays for 6:00 to 9:00 am, Miles takes his place until 1:00, where Nyargleblargle stays until 5:30, then Disaster Flare if he becomes admin after this until 11:00, where it cycles back to Serpent King), and from what I see, when no admins are on, Disaster Flare is. Penro ...that's all. 15:15, 4 March 2016 (EST)
8. yes Poultry(talk) the Pumpkin Pie 15:28, 4 March 2016 (EST)

Oppose

1. Oppose. I feel like you've still got a lot to learn and have more areas to grow in. You've broken your own rules before (SW:1RV, totally understandable, I don't think anyone truly gives a shit about that one besides annoyance of edits wars, but still), and have been hypocritical about things (saying that Admins aren't kings, but then see them as kings, totally understandable again). Hard for me to pinpoint much else as this as mostly intuition. I also don't see a need for another admin. Also, given what I've seen from you here, I feel as though you could shoot for something way higher in life than being an admin on SmashWiki? That's both a discouragement and an encouragement by the way. MuteSpittah (talk) 04:44, 4 March 2016 (EST)

   I'll be more specific about some flaws you've shown. First, judging from the examples you've shown on your qualification page, it seems that you have no problem sticking your oar in, even when the discussion doesn't get very hostile. In the end, the situations seemed to turn out well, but it seems you need a better gauge of when something is going to turn nasty or not. Second, the Dragon Lunge thing. You removed a tag calling for the need of an image on the basis of the word of someone else. You don't do that, if you're going to do that, you actually should know it yourself and not just go by the word of someone else. Maybe the person was trustworthy, but in case you didn't know Fire Emblem, there is a good possibility that you will never see an aerial Dragon Lunge in Fates. Maybe that was the fault of my tagging of it (though the game has been out for a while in Japan and it was explained in the origin, there was no source put). Knowing things is up to you to research and find yourself; it's fundamental. You don't seem to have played the game in the first place, or have enough knowledge of it. It also seems that you have a good deal of time on your hands, why not use it to research things yourself? I'm not saying you're a bad user, as you're a rather good user, it's just that you've shown some slight yet telling flaws demonstrating a lack of understanding in certain fundamentals of how things work. Yet even with that, you can still recognize that and strive to get better. So, that's my advice if you decide to stick with this. Honestly I think you have more potential than being an admin on a wiki site, but who am I to tell you what to do with your life/self. MuteSpittah (talk) 05:07, 4 March 2016 (EST)

   Most of your oppose reasons seem rather minor, and what the user could do with his/her life/self is completely irrelevant here. Also "In the end, the situations seemed to turn out well, but it seems you need a better gauge of when something is going to turn nasty or not.". Admins need to be willing to "stick the oar in" to any discussion that seems like it might fly off the rails, whether it gets nasty or not. Serpent King 10:40, 4 March 2016 (EST)

   That makes sense. I wrote this late at night, and it doesn't have a whole lot of sense to it. I'm going to change to support; while I feel there's enough admins, they're not around enough to deal with the rampant vandalism. Perhaps one more would be the magic number for admins @ SW. MuteSpittah (talk) 11:49, 4 March 2016 (EST)

Neutral

1. Exceptionally neutral. My two main reasons for voting "oppose" on your previous RfA were 1) personal lack of familiarity with you as a candidate, and 2) concerns about your familiarity with SmashWiki (and MediaWiki generally). In the months since then, I've seen a significant and impressive set of contributions that show you've pretty thoroughly established your credentials on point #2. As for you personally, I've generally seen you attempt conflict resolution and moderation with reasonable success, which is no small feat. At this point, I would be inclined to support you... but I also am admittedly slightly concerned about the short time frame since your last RfA (roughly 4 months), and I'm not totally sure that we need another admin at this time given that Toom, SK, Nyargle and myself are all reasonably active. Hence my conclusion being neutral. You're certainly a good candidate, but it's hard for me to jump all the way to "support" at this time. Miles (talk) 01:56, 4 March 2016 (EST)

   That was indeed the toughest call to make, the time frame, but I appreciate hearing your opinion and I'm glad to know I have improved since the last application. Disaster Flare (talk) 02:00, 4 March 2016 (EST)

2. Neutral, leaning very very slightly towards oppose Your answer to my question only confirmed what I suspected - you really don't add anything. Your answer was almost completely unrelated to what I said, and your final claim was that you could do everything the current team did as well if not better, but I see no reason to have one admin that does everything everyone else already does when we already have five people handling that fine (even with OT being all-but inactive, we have non-admins handling that perfectly fine and adminship won't benefit them any, and with Nyargle and Toomai being spotty we have Serpent backing Nyargle up and the fact that there's rarely a huge conflict that we can't handle ourselves keeping us from really needing Toomai that often). I see no reason why you need admin except to prove the (certainly impressive) improvements you have been making on yourself, and you obviously don't need adminship for that. ---Preceding unsigned comment added by you. Or maybe DatNuttyKid. 16:22, 4 March 2016 (EST)
3. As neutral as it gets: We already have four reasonably active admins (plus one that shows up infrequently), which I think is enough for the time being (as well as for a wiki of this size). However, you do strike me as an exceptional candidate, so if this passes, who am I to stand in the way? --MeatBall104 16:38, 4 March 2016 (EST)

Comments

My only question: What do you think you add to the admin team? Right now we have a pretty balanced team - Miles has the seniority and wiki knowledge, Serpent King and Nyargle share "charismatic idea man", OT has the competitive knowledge, and Toomai has the strange ability to keep everyone under control and working together. What makes you think you could add something to this team to make it better? ---Preceding unsigned comment added by you. Or maybe DatNuttyKid. 15:33, 4 March 2016 (EST)

Well firstly, my communication skills are typically really good, especially in debates and towards newer users. Granted, I will admit I've had some slipups, particularly in some of our spats (which I do apologize for letting my feelings take control in those situations). If I'm being honest, at the moment out of all the active admins, Serpent has the best communication skills, and even he himself has said mine are much better. Beyond that, I'm kinda like the "all colors of the rainbow" kind of aspect, when looking back at my history on the wiki. My competitive knowledge has been improving, my wiki markup and coding skills in general are pretty good these days, and I may be somewhat inaccurate here, but I've had history on not just SmashWiki, but also on three other wikis I can recall off the top of my head, so I'd like to say my wiki knowledge is about on par with Miles, maybe a bit less. Basically, in a nutshell, if there's a new obstacle, I'm willing to overcome it and take it to improve myself not just as a user, but as a person as well. I want to be able to help better the wiki in every way possible, not just in one category. Hope this helps. Disaster Flare (talk) 15:43, 4 March 2016 (EST)

I'm rooting for ya, kid. You'll become an admin ;] -- BeepYou, a user with no grammar at all :v (talk) 17:07, 4 March 2016 (EST)

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