SmashWiki:Requests for bureaucratship/Disaster Flare
Disaster Flare (talk • contribs • edit count • passing RFA • RFB page)
Candidate, please summarize why you are running for bureaucratship below.
Hello all. It's been a while since I did something like this. I've now officially been an admin for a little over 4 years now and admittedly, things have been somewhat rocky over that time. I've showcased a lot of weaknesses as an admin, such as temper problems, trigger happiness with banning, things like that. I understand applying for bureaucracy with those under my belt can be seen as an issue and I do understand any skepticism you may have, considering. However, I ask that you hear me out and don't immediately write me off for past experiences, as well as write me off just because we already have two bureaucrats. For this application, I'd like to start off by addressing one of my worst weaknesses as an admin, my temper: Over the past 4 years, I've showcased a lot of issues controlling my temper, resulting in my judgment clouding and saying things I shouldn't have said or just overall becoming completely unreliable to the discussion. I understand that this is a serious flaw to have as any sort of wiki staff member. For those on Discord, you may have noticed I have been taking steps to improve. I'm on medication now to control my anxiety, which has also, as a side effect, lowered my temper, I've become more patient, and I've ultimately apologized to some of you that I have wronged. As such, this will help benefit my dispute handling that much more, and while I haven't had any chances to handle a dispute in recent days (most discussion affairs have since transitioned to Discord nowadays, rendering talk pages a tad bit archaic), I trust in my ability to handle disputes better than ever before. I will not make any excuses, I understand I've been immature in the past. I'm aiming to be better than that in my recent journey to self-improvement. The other thing that was a huge problem (though not necessarily a flaw) is that I've had a habit of just disappearing from the wiki. However, I've gone a few years without a computer, so I was unable to make a lot of constructive edits in that time. I now have a school computer I can use, so please don't worry about potential inactivity. I'm not going anywhere if I can help it.
Next up, I'd like to provide what I've learned over the past 4 years:
I've been taking steps to learn more about the competitive scene in order to be more helpful on that side of the wiki, and have been doing tons of research on smashers in order to have complete results tables and create smasher articles so we can have the most complete smasherbase possible. I'm also beginning to study hitbox data among other things in order to hopefully finally help curb the ever-increasing competitive expertise tags (which is now quickly approaching 3000 as of my writing this). I'm also an Editor-in-Chief on LylatWiki, and while I haven't been as active there, I am a major influence in the wiki's evolution in recent years, even if I do not edit much there. Lastly, worth noting, is I'm now learning more wiki markup and aim to help more on the template side of things as well.
Lastly, I'd like to go over the major new powers I would get as a bureaucrat:
- First is promoting a user, whether it be rollback, adminship, or bureaucracy. I think we can all agree that while choosing to give someone rollback is easy, picking admins and bureaucrats is a very difficult task that should not be taken lightly. However, I consider myself a good judge of character and generally can tell when someone is not to be trusted. I've learned this over time in my experience on wiki and even irl. Promotion requires a lot of careful thinking and I would not just go gung ho promoting everyone, my aim would be to give everyone time to vote, then think on it for a while and make my decision at least after about a month.
- Next is renames. I recall Serpent saying in the past that that should be something admins should have, and honestly I'm inclined to agree. We have a pretty clear policy on it and it'd be kind of difficult to accidentally misuse it.
- Finally, interwiki. I highly doubt I'd ever need to use this for any reason, but since it is an added tool, and anything could possibly change, trust that it is in the right hands, should I ever need to use it for any reason. As a part of LylatWiki's hosting group, Grifkuba, I've been toying with ideas for new NIWA wikis that I can create and add that much more knowledge to our growing alliance, which would create an opportunity for me to use interwiki.
I think that about covers everything, but of course as always, I'm open to any and all questions or comments. If you have anything you're curious about or concerns you, please, by all means ask me. I don't want anyone second guessing themselves with their votes because this is a big step up for me, should I get the position. That said, thank you for your consideration, and make the vote you feel is right in your eyes. Disaster Flare 
(talk) 17:37, April 3, 2020 (EDT)
Support
- Support I think you've done the best you could as admin, and could further your assistance with bureaucratship. I'm glad you admitted to your wrongdoings and that you wouldn't do that again. Side note, I know it happened over a year ago, but take this as my official apology for my actions on April Fools' Day last year. Really didn't know what I was thinking, but I shouldn't have argued and called you rude because of your response to Discord removing light mode as their prank, and no one else should do the same, either. Sorry for getting a little off-topic here. Awesomelink234, the Super Cool Gamer (talk) 17:47, April 3, 2020 (EDT)
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Comments
Could you include some specifics about why you want and need the additional powers, and perhaps provide some evidence for your claim about being a good judge of character? I hate to sound mean, but a lot of the stuff in your application is largely irrelevant to the rights and responsibilities of bureaucratship... Alex the Weeb 17:48, April 3, 2020 (EDT)
