YPPedia:Requests for adminship/Faulkston

Promoted: 5/0/0 15 December 2006 --Guppymomma

Faulkston

Vote here (5/0/0) ending 22:00 PM (UTC) on the 17th of December)

Faulkston (talk • contribs) – Faulkston has demonstrated incredible competence with mediawiki, and I feel that access to the various administrator tools and privileges will add further convenience to what he already does quite well. (Indeed, he already does more "patrolling" than most of the "official" administrators!) - Ponytailguy 13:58, 10 December 2006 (PST)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Thank you, I accept. -- Faulkston 15:42, 10 December 2006 (PST)

Support

1. Support, as per nomination. --Ponytailguy 15:58, 10 December 2006 (PST)
2. Support --Barrister 02:06, 11 December 2006 (PST)
3. Support --Nicksterv ^(t/c) 02:51, 11 December 2006 (PST)
4. Support --Lizzie 04:27, 11 December 2006 (PST)
5. Support - already thought he was an admin he did that much! --Whitemonkey 09:49, 11 December 2006 (PST)

Oppose

Neutral

Comments

Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)

A. I would likely be helping with page deletion, in particular the unnecessary redirection pages created when I move articles to match in-game capitalization. It seems like I do a lot of that type of renaming. I think though that I will have to learn a lot from the administration rulings to be of any help in that area. For the near future I am likely to maintain templates, handle recentchanges rollbacks, fix category sorting and attempt to reduce the number of articles marked for cleanup. Aside from accessing locked templates to debug odd errors (some of which have occurred in the crew infobox recently), it wouldn't be a large extension to what I'm currently doing.

2. Of your articles or contributions to YPPedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A. The Economy diagram, commonly discussed ideas pages, time chart entry templates are my contributions which I particularly like. The economy diagram started out as an exercise to see if it were even possible to produce a graphical index for the economy, since a number of players had expressed the difficulty they had in navigating the YPPedia through existing text indices. It worked a lot better than I had anticipated. The commonly discussed ideas pages are, I hope, just as useful to others as they are to me in organizing the huge amount of material in the Game Design forum. I know they have saved me from having to constantly rescan forum search results. The time chart entry templates took a while to get right but were a great learning experience in working with nested templates and possibly more importantly, creating clear instructions for using a template.