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 Checkuser, Oversight and Revision Delete must be done at Community Central (and they will 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 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 bureaucrat discretion. Only bureaucrats should close votes.

Application users who are caught tampering with other users votes, such as changing a no to a yes, will have their request closed immediately.

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 2011-12
• GTA Wiki:Requests for Promotion/Archived Requests 2013
• GTA Wiki:Requests for Promotion/Jan 2014 Administrator Election
• GTA Wiki:Requests for Promotion/Archived Requests 2014
• GTA Wiki:Requests for Promotion/Archived Requests 2014-15

Group Demotion

Demotion/Inactivity discussion taking place for 5 inactive staff on the main community noticeboard.

Active requests

AK-28-Patroller

Since the major changes in the wiki's staff, I decided to apply for the patroller position...
Hey everyone, my name is AK-28, (formerly:Kingrhem) a former staff member.... I used to be a patroller here until an incident (Which I prefer not to mention) happened and I got demoted. I was very active and I'm still active, in fact - I'm almost always here at the wiki even when I'm not editing. I'm always looking out for vandalism and I know much about the GTA series (It's in my blood). Also, I'm known to make friendly terms with everyone and help everyone. My civility records are certainly and I add * if I had to use words such a swear words. I've helped in the creation of many pages and to report uncivil users and vandals. I've got total of 3920 edits on this wiki 2232 of them is on editing articles (I don't think the number of edits matter).

Sincerely -AK-28 (Talk ⋆ Edits) on 11:05, January 21, 2015 (UTC)

Votes

• Neutral - DocVinewood (talk) 11:19, January 21, 2015 (UTC)
• No- Hunter(Talk/Stalk) 11:36, January 21, 2015 (UTC)
• Neutral leaning towards Oppose - Rain - Talk 11:48, January 21, 2015 (UTC)
• No - (talk) 11:55, January 21, 2015 (UTC)
• Neutral - DLVIIIL Talk 12:00, January 21, 2015 (UTC)
• Neutral - SJWalker (talk) 12:25, January 21, 2015 (UTC)

Comments

• I'd like to know about that incident that got you demoted before voting. DocVinewood (talk) 11:19, January 21, 2015 (UTC)
• Well it happened about five months ago on the GTA Myths Wiki, a user called RageQuit and I got accused for "conspiring" against that wiki's main bureaucrat, but that long time ago and it's all over now. AK-28 (Talk ⋆ Edits) 11:38, January 21, 2015 (UTC)
• Full details of the "incident" can be found here. I know most of the details of the story, and the only reason why I'm not voting "No" is because Rhem was very helpful to the Wiki. However, this GTA Myths Wiki story (that I can call "power abuse") is still somehow worrying, no matter if "it's all over now" or not. I might reconsider my vote in the future. Rain - Talk 11:48, January 21, 2015 (UTC)
• Actually I was going to vote neutral. But then I remembered you said "Lets ruin the wiki" about GTA myths wiki.. I know it is a five month old incident. But I cant so much trust on you right now. Sorry.Hunter(Talk/Stalk) 11:43, January 21, 2015 (UTC)
• Rhem, I know that the past is the past and it was a long time ago, but it can't be erased, forgiving other people is different than trusting them again, which I think it's wrong, I don't mean to ban you from the GTA Wiki but to not give you rights, if you don't mind me saying something like that, sorry. (talk) 11:55, January 21, 2015 (UTC)
• Can we stop with this "It happened a long time ago, let's just forget about it" excuse, please? Time does not heal things by itself, you have to prove that you will not cause any trouble again. I don't operate by the logic that "Everybody DESERVES a second chance", for me, people EARN a second chance. Now, you said that you have been still active here on GTA wikia for the past months, with is the only reason that I'm giving a neutral vote, depending of what other people have to say, I maybe, just maybe, change to a yes. But until then, it's a neutral. - DLVIIIL Talk 12:00, January 21, 2015 (UTC)
• This "I'd prefer not to talk about the incident as it happened a long time ago" attitude is not the right one. Like 558050 said, second chances are earnt. I won't deny that you are a good editor and you have been an active member but being a staff member requires a lot of trust being placed in you, and if you have previously been demoted then that is going to colour some people's opinions, especially since you've previously conspired to "ruin" a Wiki. I'm not voting no because I think you are a good editor, but you need to regain the trust previously shown in you before the incident before I change my mind. SJWalker (talk) 12:25, January 21, 2015 (UTC)