Halopedia talk:Halopedian of the Month/07 2010

According to the Self-Voting Amendment, users may no longer vote for themselves until someone votes for them first.

Votes

 * Spirit of Fire - His contribution in Halopedia has been most appreciated: He has performed constructive additions, improve quality and readability of most articles we have in Halopedia and fought vandals alongside the Administration Team.- 5 ub7 ank (7alk ) 15:28, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Spirit of Fire - As per Subtank, great guy to talk to, great contributor. Councillor   Nicmavr  -  Ascy   'Vamal  Light your way with honour! 15:42, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sith Venator - Recently, this Halopedian has shown his real potential. He presented a really great attitude, made constructive edits, rose among the "green" ranks of Halopedia, welcomed and helped new users, made it to the top 5 of the Top Users of the Month and Week, got Rollback (correct me if I'm wrong), and generally, he is a cheerful and simple guy, who really deserves some recognition. -  JEA13  [ iTalk  ] 11:18, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sith Venator - Very helpful, kind, and the Weekly Sith Hunt is fairly entertaining - Happy  hobo  -117  The Guy
 * Spirit of Fire - He deserves this many times over. His willingness to work hard plus his rare devotion to Halopedia supports this. — Co un  ci  ll  or   Ko  ug  er  ma  st  ers  14:19, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sith Venator - He's a good halopedian. Pretty helpful too.  Vadamee  ( Contibutions Profile ) 15:29, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Spirit of Fire: per last month, which was he is good friend and a hard worker. Field   Master   Spartansniper  4  50  16:11, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sith Venator- he is really friendly and contributes alot to halopedia--Gubreez 20:44, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Comments
Why are most users who don't vote on votings or comment on blogs considered "green"? Why are friends the only voting criteria in the HotM? I won't "post fingers" this time, but I know a lot of users who are far better that many of the users we believe to be veterans, or at least, "nice contributor, great guy"s.

Last month, I nominated Incendiary, who had made amazing contributions at the time, but without anybody noting it, and so without anybody supporting him. Of course, one of other nominees might deserve it more, but either way, nobody would even think of looking into it. Two months ago, I nominated Arbiter116, for the same reason I nominated Incendiary, but I quickly changed to another pre-nominated nominee because my opinion was influenced by everyone who voted for the more popular users. A great miskate of mine, which won't happen again. Please note here that none of these two users were my friends (at that time), I just voted for them because I looked into their contributions and considered their level of loyalty. Same for the Wavingstrider this month.

Not attending contests or votings doesn't mean less recognition or respect, instead means respect for the user in word for having a personal opinion on it and staying loyal to it. That's all I have to say. - JEA13 [ iTalk  ] 19:31, 4 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Firstly, I nominate Spirit of Fire not because of his popularity or because he's a friend (Everyone is my friend!). It is because his contributions since last year have been invaluable and when Halo Wars came out recently, he and a few other users cooperated with each other to help organise and fix articles related to the RTS game. Additionally, he's been nominated before in January (I think..) in the running with Spirit-of-HALO but didn't obtain the HoTM for January. Thus, these facts combined is the reason why I nominate him for this month.


 * Secondly, just because Spirit of Fire is nominated doesn't mean that other users are bad or worthless. Please keep in mind that the nominator can only nominate one user only. That said, other users would have a chance to be nominated for next month. What they should do is to contribute constructively and improve the quality of articles extensive and intensively.


 * Thirdly, the "popular voting" theory is plausible. The minorities would conform to the majorities choice. It's one of the core of sociology. Your example illustrates this.- 5 ub7 ank (7alk ) 19:48, 4 May 2009 (UTC)


 * About your second fact: What you said is exactly the same as what I said. There are always users who don't get nominated because nominators choose someone else, but this happens every month. I see users like Kougermasters, Spirit of Fire, Smoke, and most notably Nicvamr (congrats to all of you BTW!), who are nominated almost every month, while other users might deserve it more and could be nominated at their position, but that never happens, most possibly because of their low popularity level. I think I am the only one who nominates users never seen on HotMs before, like Incendiary and Sith Venator. Your point about the nominator being able to nominate one user at a time is right. Problem is, next time they would nominate a user who was nominated one or two months before by another nominator!


 * Also, contributing constructively and improve the quality of articles extensive and intensively gets boring and even annoying if there isn't any recognition for the user... - JEA13  [ iTalk  ] 11:44, 5 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I was only nominated once before last month. Before that I was practically invisible, haha. Smoke  12:27, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Though this isn't really relevant, I despise the Weekly Sith Hunt. — Co un  ci  ll  or   Ko  ug  er  ma  st  ers  14:19, 5 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Cos your work has been invaluable Smoke.. Anyway, I was only nominated three times inside this page, not as many as what Jimmy said would make believe. 14:23, 5 May 2009 (UTC)


 * For me, being nominated three times in a HotM would be like getting all 7 Vidmaster Achievements! :P - JEA13  [ iTalk  ] 15:34, 5 May 2009 (UTC)