The Sims Wiki:Requests for administratorship

Requests for administratorship is intended to be a venue where frequent and skilled editors of The Sims Wiki can request Administrative rights on the wiki. New administrators are selected by the community based on their editing history, behavior, skills, and other factors.

Any user who meets the minimum requirements for nomination (see below) may be nominated, or may submit a request for administratorship. All requests are conducted on individual pages - a bureaucrat will set up the individual request page once a nominee/applicant has cleared the minimum requirements.

To nominate a user, or to apply yourself, please go here.

Pending applications
Please use this space to apply for administrative rights, or to nominate another user for those rights. Please ensure that you/the nominee meet minimum requirements and are eligible.

Beds Hi, I'm Beds. A fair while back, I was an administrator and bureaucrat here on The Sims Wiki, but due to personal reasons, I retired my rights and took a step back from the wiki. I've been back for a few months now and I have decided I would like to, once more, receive administration rights.

The reason I have requested for rights, is due to the low number of admins, and wish to help get the wiki's activity back up to it's heavy activity it used to have. I always said that, if need be, I would come back as an administrator to help the running of things around here. As for my wiki editing skills, I say I am quite skilled. I know how to make a template, whatever use it is needed for, I have a little bit of knowledge in HTML coding. On top of all of that, I know of the Wiki rules and know how to edit a page, how to license an image, and I can be quite fair at times.

It should also be noted that I am doing this solely for the Wiki. Wiki activity has been low lately, with only a few users editing and mainly IPs making messes of articles, it is collecting dust and dust can be quite bothersome at times.. The dust has to be removed and the community can help with that. It should also be noted that I will not abuse the rights, if given to me.

Thank you for considering my request. Beds (talk - blog ) 21:33, August 14, 2014 (UTC)

Minimum requirements
In order to apply for administratorship or be eligible for nomination, a user must:
 * have Rollback rights;
 * be able to communicate effectively in English, including the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling;
 * have extensive experience in wiki editing, preferably including edits to templates and categories, and use of more "complex" tools or features such as tables (knowledge of or experience with JavaScript and CSS is also beneficial, but is not required); and
 * not be prohibited from requesting or being nominated for administrative rights due to past actions or prior requests.

Procedure for Applications
The following steps should be followed by applicants and nominees.

Stage 1 - Nomination/Application

 * Users may nominate themselves or be nominated by another user for administratorship. The nominee then has to accept the nomination before discussion can begin. Nominations or applications should be made here.
 * If the nominee accepts the nomination, they should also choose two Administrative projects when stating their acceptance.
 * After a user applies or accepts a nomination, a bureaucrat should determine whether the user is eligible to apply. If they are eligible, the bureaucrat will create a page for the nomination (typically 'The Sims Wiki:Requests for administratorship/ ()') and begin the discussion there.
 * Multiple nominations can be queued at one time. Nominations which aren't responded to by the nominee within 2 weeks are subject to removal.

Stage 2 - Discussion

 * A period of discussion shall last at least five days.
 * After the five day period of discussion has elapsed, it shall be determined whether a consensus in favor of or against promotion has been reached.
 * Consensus for these requests is defined as a general agreement among users engaged in the discussion (including the nominating user, if applicable). If necessary, consensus can be roughly measured as a general agreement between at least two-thirds of users engaged in the discussion (including the nominating user, if applicable).
 * If the discussion shows consensus for a nominee, the nomination is successful and the user is promoted. If the discussion shows consensus against a promotion, the nomination will end and the nominee will not be promoted.
 * After the initial five-day discussion period, if consensus either for or against promotion is not present, discussion will continue until there is a two-day long period, or longer, in which nothing is added to the discussion.
 * If this occurs and a consensus for promotion exists, the nomination is successful and the user is promoted.
 * If this occurs and a consensus for promotion does not exist, the nomination will end and the nominee will not be promoted. This will occur even if a consensus against promotion does not exist.
 * If discussion continues for ten or more days, and it is determined by at least two bureaucrats that progress towards consensus is not occurring, the nomination will end and the nominee will not be promoted.

Other rules

 * A nominee whose nomination does not lead to a consensus for promotion will not be eligible to be nominated or to request for thirty days.
 * A nominee may end a nomination at any time. A nominee that terminates a nomination will not be eligible to be nominated or to request for fifteen days.
 * A nominee who has had three failed nominations within any six-month period will be ineligible to be nominated or to request rights for three months, starting at the end of their third failed nomination.
 * A nominee who applies for rights and who is ineligible will be automatically denied, and will be ineligible to request rights or to be nominated for an additional fifteen days, beginning after they would have otherwise become eligible. Nominations of ineligible nominees by other users will not result in a penalty against the nominee.

Guidelines for discussion and consensus

 * Points of discussion should be focused on assessing the ability of a nominee to perform their duties. Discussion should avoid sweeping praise or generalizations (e.g. "he/she is a good editor" or "he/she deserves it"), and focus instead on specific reasons why a user is or is not a good fit for the position.
 * Users engaged in discussion may contradict the points raised by another user, but should remain respectful at all times. Back-and-forth arguments between two users should be avoided.
 * Generally, consensus in a request can be determined by answering these questions:
 * Are there major and specific problems raised by multiple users regarding the nominee?
 * Is there a lack of agreement between users over whether a nominee is qualified, capable of serving or a good fit for the role?
 * If the answer to these questions is 'no', there likely exists a consensus for the nomination.

Archives
The Sims Wiki:Requests for administratorship/Archive 1 - April 2009 to July 2010
 * Old Archives

The Sims Wiki:Requests for administratorship/Archive 2 - July 2010 to April 2011

The Sims Wiki:Requests for administratorship/Archive 3 - July 2011 to September 2011

The Sims Wiki:Requests for administratorship/Archive 4 - March 2012 to October 2012

The Sims Wiki:Requests for administratorship/Archive 5 - November 2012 to May 2013

Fanon Administratorship Archive Beds - June 17 to 22, 2013 - Approved
 * New Archives

Hurshbr - June 22 to 25, 2013 - Not approved

Pidgeoraptor7 - August 1 to August 6, 2013 - Approved

JasonThePlum - September 24 to October 5, 2013 - Approved

Walker guy94 - October 5 to October 10, 2013 - Approved

Mate1234 - November 20 to December 5, 2013 - Not approved

K6ka - January 24 to January 29, 2014 - Approved

Joey.eyeball - January 30 to February 5, 2014 - Not approved

Icemandeaf - June 19 to June 24, 2014 - Approved

C.Syde65 - June 24 to June 29, 2014 - Not approved

Joey.eyeball - August 2, 2014 to August 7, 2014 - Approved