Halopedia:Requests for adminship/RelentlessRecusant

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Request for adminship: RelentlessRecusant
Submitted: March 25, 2007, by RelentlessRecusant
Closed: June 9, 2007, by ED
Result: Passed


Hello! Okay...Wikia staff is considering granting me administrative access to Halopedia...they've advised me to start this forum and take a vote...should RelentlessRecusant be an administrator? =D

  • Over 12,000 edits (most edits on site, Esemono has 9,000+)
  • Co-founder of the Covenant of Halopedia
  • Created many templates, most notably - organizational templates and infoboxes
  • Created/edited my fair share of articles, especially starships
  • Editor since August 2006 (9 months, w00t! =D)
  • Created Halopedia Forums
  • Created Project Userbox, which is the source for the userboxes that users use now. =D
  • Repeated vandal fighting
  • Halopedian of the Month for January 2007

What caused this? Okay. I've been fighting vandals for a long time now, and am extremely frustrated by their tauntings and my inability to do anything rather than revert their edits manually and say "bug off". However, with administrative access, I will be able to automatically revert their edits and ban them permanently. Seeing that I'm on Halopedia probably about as much or even more as all three of the administrators combined, I could greatly aid vandal fighting efforts. I could imagine Ryanngreenday, another of our vandal fighters, similarly frustrated.

This was precipitated by a vandal attack in the morning of March 25, 2007 (Saturday). I was incredibly fed up, and asked Wikia administration for this promotion. This is solely so I can greatly aid vandal fighting efforts and keep Halopedia the clean place it is today, not for any other reason. I promise you that if you vote for me, and I am promoted, that I will work my hardest to improve Halopedia as I already am.

Cheers,

Rainbow Six Vegas File:R6V_1.jpg|20px]] -[[Frag 'n Clear]]- File:R6V_2.jpg|20px]] -[[Smoke 'n Clear]]- File:R6V_3.jpg|20px]] -[[Suppressors On]]- 18:09, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

If all you want is the ability to do [rollback] and "automatically revert their edits" then why don't you get the Wikia Admin staff to grant you [rollback] status or fix the Special:Giverollback page? -- Esemono 01:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Update: Special:Giverollback should be fixed now. G.He(Talk!) 01:14, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Update: RR has been granted rollback status by Esemono. -- Manticore File:Fleet Admiral.jpg|25px]] Talk | CSV 06:26, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

For (28/1)

  1. ----Swearingmonk 14:15, 6 June 2007 (UTC) Relentless for president, ok admin at least.
  2. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 18:17, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  3. --I'm absolutely for Relentless being a administrator on Halopedia...and i'm not kissing his ass either. :D (CommanderTony)
  4. --Kwarsh

File:Gruntiness.jpeg|35px]][Talk to me!] - [Stuff I've done!] 18:47, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

  1.  G.He(Talk!) 19:07, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  2. Spartan G-23 15:12 March 25 2007
  3. File:UoH.gif|15px]] Image:Navy Vice Admiral.PNG|20pxThe Lieutenant Halopedia:UNSC of Halopedia|General]] 19:15, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  4. Gerzam Image:Gerzam.jpg |20px [Communications] [Past Battles] 19:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  5. Silenced Nighthawk(Comlink)(Past Missions) 20:01, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  6. Bloody Hell (I'm allowed to say that, right?) RR an admin? May the Vandals be prepared. Just don't let this go to your head. For RR -- TheObviousOne 20:31, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
    1. Yeah, you can say that. I, at least, have no objection. --Dragonclaws(talk) 21:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  7. Donut THX 1138 File:Capt Donut.PNG|32px]] [Comm] - [CoH|CoH]]] - ['Nodotee] 20:48, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  8. Why not, Peace.--The Chazz025 and Clan 20:51, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  9. Master Gunnery Sergeant Hank J Wimbleton IVCOM 20:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  10. Mr. WOZ $ 20:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  11. He is a good admin on Gearspedia, I know he will be good here. Darth tader,Talk to the Tader,My work 20:55, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  12. Shoe shot 21:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC) Of course, RR pwns
  13. Grievous797
  14. --John010117 23:42, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  15. Excuse me, did you think i wouldn't? Respect them Grunts, --Mouse File:Heroic.jpg|30px]] Squeak to meh. See where I've eaten cheese.
  16. He saved me when I was new...OH, Wait, I still am! UP WITH RR!!! SPARTAN-118
  17. SPARTAN-001 [AI•CSV] File:Spikers.jpg|40px]] 14:15, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
  18. I am definitely for RR becoming an admin. I won't list all of my reasons, but here are a few,
In my opinion RR is the most community minded user, personally welcoming as many people as he can, and making a new person feel welcome, and that he is an important part of the group.
His templates have become invaluable to the entire wiki, without them many of our articles would be messy, hard to read, and much longer than they need to.
Etc.

Now, many of those against RR have brought up some things,

First off, Dragonclaws has stated that RR is biased, because he might dislike Esemono. If this is so, this is not biase, this is an honest case of one user disliking another. There is nothing wrong with this. If one user has offended another, or even just annoyed for a really long time, it is perfectly clear that this user would not like the other. I know there are users on halopedia I do not really like (won't name any names) but only because, in my opinion, they earned it.
Ed had a good point, Edit counts don't mean anything. Um, exactly, I know I am not voting for RR for his edit count, I am voting for him for his contributions and community mindedness. Ed says he only has about 5000 edits. But in my opnion, they are good ones. Ed also said that if we were giving adminship to any user with that many edits we'd be overrun. But we are not just nominating RR for his edits, but for other things he has done (too much to name).

Thanks for your time, Dockman

Esemono brought up the point of the 5000 edits. To the point of adminship, Yes RelentlessRecusant has done many, many things for Halopedia, but, in my opinion, Donut THX 1138, Caboose, Manticore, Rot, Ryanngreenday and GPT have too. If this goes through, the same reasoning could be applied to admiship for them, and it could be easily said that they deserve it for the exact same reasons. We do not need a new admin, the way things are currently working, we have 3 admins who work closely together and get everything that needs doing done. -ED 21:09, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
And I would like to point out that none of those people save Ryanngreenday have applied for adminship. I for one am not interested in becoming an admin here. Sure, I did some nice things (though I can't remember them...perhaps my name's on there by mistake...), but I'm not applying for adminship. And if everything was working the way it needed to, there certainly wouldn't be so much strife and arguing going on.
--Master Gunnery Sergeant Hank J Wimbleton IVCOM 03:52, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
The reason for all the strife is that things were fine before. Vandalism is just as common and severe as before, and it is still dealt with quickly and efficently. So why are we pretending it has suddenly become an unmanageable crisis? -ED 19:50, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  1. What? You deserve it.Envy Skull Effects

File:ESE.JPG|20px]] 21:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

  1. Shadow of The Broken(Disenchanted Soul)(The Plague Begins)

File:Halo2emblem.ashx.jpeg|30px]] 21:45, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

  1. Him helping out here and helping nubs and all that doesn't really mean anything; it's just that he's here a lot, so he'd be able to ban vandals nearly right away, respond to delete tags sooner, just little things like that, and our admins aren't here enough... no offense, it's just, yeah. As much as I would love to pwn RR by being an admin before him, he gets mah vote. Güéߣ¥-∏éҐ∫øñ¥-†ħîИg¥ 22:34, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Right. I am constantly here and constantly block vandals and undo their work almost inststantly, not that I am ever recognized for it in any way. Check the block log against vandalism and tell me we aren't here enough. -ED 22:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
I said no offense. I'm not saying you don't do your job as an admin; I'm saying that sometimes none of the admins are on during a vandal crisis, and it would just help to have another. Anyway, as for recognition, check your talk page. Güéߣ¥-∏éҐ∫øñ¥-†ħîИg¥ 03:09, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

  1. DARKEST NIGHT
    MIL AI-24AX89Z     (SPARTAN-001)(Contact)

<ENDTRANSMISSION> 17:26, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

  1. --CT-5619 helmet comlink 15:21, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
  2. Strong For-- tOO 18:52, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
  3. FOR As long as RR is an admin, Halopedia is sure to be...interesting...in a good way=). Peace. I'm On Fire! File:Unfreakinbelievable-2.jpg|30px]] FeedTheFlame WatchMySmoke 02:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
  4. Very friendly, he has never offended anyone, i believe he is a perfect leader.Spartan-G007 File:kpisalasergod2.gif|35px]] XBL gamertag:SpartanG007
  5. I for one thought he has been an admin this whole time since I joined. I absolutely think he should be admin cause he greats everyone, helps everyone and edits almost everything. no offence to guest-peron-thingy, but rr is one of those few people who can do the things everyone needs him to do. File:Master_Chief.jpg|50px]]Stryker COMM My StuffFile:Coffeebreak.jpg|50px]] 20:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
  6. I for because you always be here when we got problem, also you help us so many time.File:ODST1 u.jpg|40px]]Chief frank 001Bla Bla BlaWhat I've doneFile:Marines HALO wars.jpg|40px]] 02:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Good lord, RR, a Wikia admin thinks you should be an Admin.

See ya,
--Kwarsh File:Gruntiness.jpeg|35px]][Talk to me!] - [Stuff I've done!] 19:09, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Good luck! File:UoH.gif|15px]] Image:Navy Vice Admiral.PNG|20pxThe Lieutenant Halopedia:UNSC of Halopedia|General]] 19:15, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

RR helped me a lot and helps the Noobs. He ought to be an Admin and he WILL help a lot with the vandal problem. UP WITH RR!!! -- SPARTAN-118 02:15, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

He deserves it. Good luck, RR. Mr. WOZ