Tardis:User rights nominations

Please put nominations (including self-nominations) for special user rights below. Do so by using the following format. Please cut and paste the entirety of this format, and put it underneath the most recent nominee in the section. Where the format says "UserName", please ensure you change it to their actual user name.

===[[Special:Contributions/UserName|UserName]]===
:'''The rationale for nominating this user is:'''
====Support====
:'''Please outline the reasons you support this nomination below:''' 
====Oppose====
:'''Why do you oppose this nomination?'''
====Neutral====
:'''Feeling lukewarm about this user?  Tell us why.'''
====Comments and concerns====
:'''Do you have specific concerns about this user that are getting in the way of you making up your mind?  Leave them here for the nominee to address.'''  To the nominee: failure to respond to comments left here may weigh against you when it comes time to close the nomination.

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Admins

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Nominations:

SmallerOnTheOutside

Nominating user: CzechOut 16:43, December 25, 2013 (UTC)

I am pleased to place SmallerOnTheOutside's — or SOTO's — name before you in nomination for the position of administrator.

In two-days-shy-of-a-year, SOTO has proven that he's possessed of many of the qualities necessary to make a good administrator. In particular, he's more than shown a willingness to tackle any project placed before him, no matter how menial or repetitive. He's also taken it upon himself to take the first steps towards learning how to use a bot — and, more impressively, how to use regex markup. I am not at this time prepared to also argue for the administratorship for his bot. But it is encouraging to note his genuine interest not only in the subject matter of the wiki, but also in the details of how the wiki works.

Editing foci

SOTO has tackled a number of projects for us in the year he's been here. Perhaps chief amongst these was the complete overhaul of our date-handling system, allowing us to leverage information related to dates in a more meaningful way. Thanks to his help, we now have the ability to easily tell you what happened in a particular field of interest, based upon a day of the year. For instance, if I wanted to know what stories were released on this day, SOTO has made it possible to get a good, clean list by just typing in

{{:25 December (releases)}}

He's also shown some graphical skill, by helping us with the wordmark programme that was active for most of the year, and by producing at least one set of badges for the Game of Rassilon. For pictures appearing on ordinary pages, he's shown great care in following our local guidelines.

He's also been willing to investigte some of the more advanced elements of wiki text markup.

He has a passion for writing articles about subjects that exist in the real world, and has shown a dedication to the notion that the real world is not a valid source for articles. His care in making sure that good, in-universe sources are found for articles is one of the harder aspects of our rules to follow, but so far he's shown that he makes a reasonable effort on each and every article he touches.

Interaction with other users

SOTO has always seen the value of collaboration. He's been on the forums and talk pages since the day he created an account.

However, it would be remiss of me not to note that when he first arrived he was — let's be honest — a bit quick to dismiss people. Now, notwithstanding the occasional wobble, he's mostly learned the value of providing positive reinforcement and gentler admonitions.

Although this is definitely the area of his activities that has long given me the most pause, it would be miserly of me not to note that he has been making significant improvement in this area. I have little doubt that he's now fully developing along the right lines.

Writing style

Although I must admit I very occasionally puzzle over his word choice, he always provides an absolutely solid base from which to improve an article. He hews closely to the text of narratives, and I've never known him to blatantly insert personal opinion or speculation into his work. He's become rather ruthless about finding good, solid in-universe sources for every fact included in an article — and that's probably the single most important skill a writer on this wiki could have.

Main policies he'll likely enforce

• T:NO RW (just note the assiduousness of the notes at Talk:2 September, Talk:3 September, Talk:14 September and on and on)
• T:RVID (he's been a leading user of our video recommendation module)
• T:GTI (his approach to discussions about iNmages — as at Talk:Eighth Doctor — is always based on our guidelines)

Stats

• First edit &1000000000000001100000011 years, &10000000000000364000000364 days
• Edit count: Special:EditCount/SmallerOnTheOutside (manual) Special:EditCount/SV7 (bot)
• Current rank, in terms of edits on regular pages: 12th
• Edits in main namespace per day: 51
• Tardis loaylty: 97.5% of all Wikia edits were made here
• Namespace spread: 84.8% of all edits were made in ns:0 (main), with a whopping 5.28% (1,152) made in the forums and a healthy 2.1% (467) made on categories, 2.1% (458) made on talk pages, and 1.9% (417) made in the file namespace. That generally means, of course, that he's focussed on regular articles, but spends a good amount of time working on structural issues.

Support

Please outline the reasons you support this nomination below:

• CzechOut 16:43, December 25, 2013 (UTC), for reasons stated in the nomination
• It'll admit I don't edit here much, but from what I've seen, he looks like a user who could have been an admin some months ago and he thoroughly deserves this. —Gyaro–Maguus— 01:50, December 28, 2013 (UTC)
• Because I don't know this user, I'll just presume that he would be a great one!– The preceding unsigned comment was added by POMfannumber1 (talk • contribs) .
• I'll second what Gyarados said. In a lot of ways, SOTO is already behaving like an admin, advising people on their talk pages about policy, for example. He proved himself months ago as far as I'm concerned.  Digifiend  Talk  PR/SS  KR  MH  Toku  JD  Garo  TH  CG  UM  Logos  CLG  DW  10:13,29/12/2013 
• Tangerineduel / talk 13:08, December 30, 2013 (UTC) In most of SOTO's discussions on Talk pages / in the forums I've found him to be very reasoned and calm. SOTO has contributed quality and consistent new articles and edits to articles.
• Doug86 ☎ 23:59, December 31, 2013 (UTC) I support SOTO for all the reasons given above.
• Cult Of Skaro Here.|Communicate here. 03:40, January 1, 2014 (UTC) In favor for all reasons above.
• Reversinator ☎ From what SOTO's demonstrated, at least from what I've seen, he's both helpful, polite, and diligent. He gets my vote.
• Pockydon I literally only made my account today, and I've only edited a few pages, but from what I've seen SOTO is easily the best candidate for admin. He has my vote!

Oppose

Why do you oppose this nomination?

Neutral

Feeling lukewarm about this user? Tell us why.

Comments and concerns

Do you have specific concerns about this user that are getting in the way of you making up your mind? Leave them here for the nominee to address. To the nominee: failure to respond to comments left here may weigh against you when it comes time to close the nomination.

After quite a bit of deliberation, I've decided to air my concerns here. I've seen some editing patterns of SOTO's that need to be addressed.

It's my opinion that SOTO doesn't quite have a well-developed understanding of the wiki's policies. There are a couple of occasions where he has violated a policy, then explained that he didn't think it fit the situation. And I'm not talking about a couple of minor policies, but rather Tardis:Spoiler policy and Tardis:Vandalism policy.

Another issue I have is that, while SOTO has "more than shown a willingness to tackle any project placed before him, no matter how menial or repetitive", as User:CzechOut stated, I've noticed a tendency for him to start a project then leave it undone.

If details are necessary, I can dig them up, but for now I wanted to state my concerns with this nomination. I personally feel that SOTO could use some more editing time on the wiki, but will in the future make a good admin. Shambala108 ☎ 03:10, January 1, 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for responding. I will admit that, especially in my earlier days, there were a few bumps in the road. I misunderstood what "bottom of the hour" meant and ended up breaking T:OFF REL. There was miscommunication that lead me to have an incredibly spoilery user subpage. I totally agree with you that I have made mistakes. All that said, I have most certainly learned from them, and I couldn't dream of making mistakes like those again.

I think the T:VAN incident was when I removed a spoiler from CzechOut's talk page, is that correct? In this case, I still partially stand by my decision, because he was at the time staying away from spoilers; I just wanted to make sure it was gone before he read it. On the other hand, I do now realise that I should have gone to you or another admin. I didn't see any around, so I figured I'd go ahead. Note that I did say in the edit summary that I knew I usually shouldn't be doing this. So it's not that I was not familiar with policy — it's that I felt this is an exception. Maybe I was wrong.

On your second point, I do not believe that I have ever abandoned a project. Sure, some things I put on pause for a few weeks, occasionally a few months, but I always come back to tie up loose ends and finish up. For example, I completely left day articles for nearly two months whilst I was working on more urgent projects with a time limit, like the quizzes we had, illustrating them, food fiction, the transmats, etc. But I have since gotten back to it, and will continue to work on it and other projects over the next few months, and hopefully complete them. I think I might have a tendency to take on a huge load of projects at once and maybe I should be a lil' bit more careful in the future, but I always stand by what I start and will never leave it, no matter how much time it takes or how boring the task might be. The only thing which I signed onto that I did not end up doing at all was helping along with the Hebrew wiki; there has since been another admin there who does far more work there than I could ever do, and my time is best spent here. If you find something which you think I abandoned, please remind me and I'll get back to it as soon as I can.
--SOTO ☎ 03:29, January 1, 2014 (UTC)

Bureaucrats

A bureaucrat has the same rights as an administrator and the additional permission to create new administrators and bureaucrats.

Nominations: