SmashWiki:Requests for adminship/Smorekingxg456 (2)

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Candidate, please summarize why you are running for adminship below. Yes yes, I failed last time, but honestly that was out of pure dumbassery on my part. I now have a better complitation of reasons as to why I should be an SySop and I will gladly respond to comments(which was apparently my downfall last time).

I personally believe I deserve Adminship as I am one of the more active users left, and I have been Starting last July, when I joined. One of the first projects I took on was fixing double redirects, and at that time I fixed more than 100 of them, and since then very few have come up(not that it is relevant). Secondly, as I joined during the Post-Merge scene, I took part in the cleanup. The main task I took on was turning Pros and Cons sections into attributes, which very few had done before me(only Falco, Bowser, and Meta Knight were changed, and that was done by the author of the post merge cleanup). I fixed several of them before others starting taking part too.

That was all during the beginning of me joining Smashwiki. After that, I didn;t take part in many projects, but I was still a solid contributor. After most of the active contributors migrated to other sites, i died a little in activity, but I was still a contributor, and was one of the few who still came here on some sort of basis(although some came for specific reasons). Recently I have been becoming more and more active, taking several large edits rather than extraneous amounts of smaller edits. My most recent edit of any sort of notability would most likely be the fixing, expanding, etc. of the File Replacement sections.

Due to my lack of ability to find a place to organize these ideas, I will post them individually.

• As shown in one of my user blogs, I am the same person as SZL. Whilie it was initially used as a joke on Cafinator, it was later used for being able to mean "srs bsns" without being hated by other users. This shows that I am fully capable of being serious.
• I am usually on IRC, meaning I would be easily contactable.
• I have a strange habit of finding vandalism/spam whenever a mod isn't around(although, admittedly, it is only Shadowcrest and Miles atm with PenguinofDeath being away.) I consistently tell Shadowcrest of such findings on IRC, although he typically is afk. Should I be a Sysop, I would be able to handle such on my own.
• I'm probably the only active contributor left who knows enough about competitive smash to be able to differentiate between notable on non-notables. Ask PenguinofDeath, as he usually consults me before deleting a smasher page.
• With Miles's new advertising on AllisBrawl, I figured I'd be able to help most new users from there out in order to be able to help guide them and help them learn about our polices and such.

I know I had more ideas, but I suppose they'll arise when others ask about them.

Smoreking^(T) _(c) 00:19, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Support

1. Support. I agree with Miles, but still, the fact that you do a lot for this Wiki makes you a pretty good contributor. The only reason I would not strongly support you is because, like Miles said, you do have a very small problem with the interactions with other users. But otherwise, I'm OK with you. RAN1domchupunch!!99 03:19, October 8, 2009 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Neutral with a strong lean towards support. Smoreking's got a long track record of solid mainspace contributions, and his vandal-fighting and janitorial knowledge are quite impressive as well. Nevertheless, I still have reservations. Smore's relations with other users are mixed, he's immature on occasion and he did sockpuppet once (in a somewhat benign fashion, though). I've yet to decide whether he merits the leadership position, though he's shown he merits the tools for the most part. (Psst. Sign your post.) Miles (talk) 02:22, October 8, 2009 (UTC)
2. Neutral, leaning towards support. You're usually pretty good at giving advice on dodgy Smasher articles, and, as you say, there are few properly active Admins left (I am active, by the way, just less so than I was before) so it would be useful to have another one around, but... you can be frustratingly immature at times... You know wikis, Smash and the competitive scene really well, so you'd be a useful asset in those regards, but I'm not sure whether you'd be brilliant at dealing with user conflicts. PenguinofDeath 08:50, October 8, 2009 (UTC)