YPPedia:Requests for adminship/Therobotdude

Promoted (4/0/0) July 23, 2014 --Faulkston

Therobotdude

Vote here (4/0/0) ending 03:55 20/7/2014 (UTC)

Therobotdude (talk • contribs) – Therobotdude has over 2000 edits and has shown dedication to the wiki. He has done a great job in cleaning the gunk of the wiki, but I believe he could do even more if he had administrative powers. Guipsp 16:11, 12 July 2014 (PDT)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept.

Support

1. I wholeheartedly support this nomination. Therobotdude has been tireless, friendly, and efficient since he began editing here. He has a good temperament with the ability to maintain a cool head in disputes. He has extensive knowledge about what this wiki needs and how to provide it. And he is a very active user. He is the ideal choice for the job, so there is no question he should get it. Chupchup 16:27, 13 July 2014 (PDT)
2. Of course, as the nominator, I support. Guipsp 03:19, 14 July 2014 (PDT)
3. I support this nomination as well. Therobotdude has put a lot of effort into the wiki, and has exemplified the ideal of 'See a problem? Fix it!'. He is also very willing to discuss matters when an edit is called into question, and I agree with Chupchup that he keeps a cool head, even when it's his edits called into question. Additionally, I think he's far and away the best active editor of YPPedia that isn't already an admin. I see no reason why he shouldn't be made one. Jlh0605 10:45, 15 July 2014 (PDT)
4. Support. I agree with the reasons enumerated above. (And I'll find it amusing for him to become an Admin in time for his one-year anniversary of his YPPedia activity.) -- Franklincain ^(t/c) 14:09, 15 July 2014 (PDT)

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 make minor fixes to protected pages (typos, grammar, links, etc) as I've already done across numerous Gameplay/Terminology articles. Additionally, I am interested in organising a new series of featured articles to feed the main page, and admin rights would speed up the process of getting an article up there once the article's been peer-reviewed. As an active user, it'd also be useful to have me around in admin form to address cases of severe disruption/vandalism, weird deletion/undeletion requests and so forth (and I'd finally be able to clean up the small mountain of speedily-delete tagged pages I've left behind!).

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

A. The swordfighting drop pattern article was one of the first I worked on, in response to players who just wanted to know how a drop pattern worked. I also enjoyed working on spades and hearts, making their layouts consistent with that of the poker article; again, I have known people who would not play the puzzles (particularly spades) because no clear breakdown of scoring was available. Finally, I make edits all over the place in response to ongoing greeter chat questions, since it's important that the wiki continues to provide useful information that players want to know.