MSPA Wiki:Staff nominations

Welcome to the MSPA Wiki staff nominations page! Here, you may nominate a user on the wiki to be considered for promotion to our illustrious pantheon of staff members, or to promote them to a higher role if they are a staff member already. As a nomination accumulates discussion, our sysops will review it, and eventually, the decision will be made by the bureaucrats to either make the promotion, or reject the nomination.

Users are permitted to nominate themselves, as well as comment on themselves if nominated by others.

You can also use this page to request the following:
 * Login details for Caligorg
 * Op rights on the IRC channel
 * Access to the wiki blog

How to nominate
To nominate a user for promotion, add a level 3 header with their username and the proposed rank, like this: ===User:Username – Role=== The user making the nomination should provide reasons for it, and sign with four tildes ( ~ ). Other users can then review and comment on the nomination by adding bullet points below the initial nomination, each prefixed with Support, Oppose or Comment. All nominations that have been judged by a bureaucrat, whether carried out or rejected, will then be archived. The only exception to this is if the nomination is blatant trolling, in which case it will just be deleted.

Staff requirements

 * Only users who have been editing for at least a few months will be considered.
 * A brief explanation of the user's deeds, why they deserve the position and how they would benefit from access to the tools the role grants should be included in the initial nomination. Related to this, bear in mind that staff roles are not just badges of merit, they come with a set of tools. It is whether the user will benefit from those tools that really matters. For example, there's little reason for a user to be a sysop, no matter how good a regular editor they are, if they are never going to have cause to delete or protect pages, or block vandals.
 * Qualities we look for in our staff include:
 * reasonably consistent activity levels
 * valuable contributions to content
 * good knowledge of core policies
 * ability to remain civil and cool-headed
 * ...but that is not a hard list of necessities, just the sort of things we like to see.

Caligorg requirements
As Caligorg is a very powerful tool, only our most trusted users are granted the login details for it. Normally, this means only sysops, since they already have the editing tools that Caligorg has. However, if you think you can make a strong case for your trustworthiness, and why you think you should have access to Caligorg, you may make a request. The only absolute prerequisite here is that you should familiarise yourself with what an Auto Wiki Browser account actually is, so that you understand exactly what you are requesting.

Social requirements
Qualities that we look for in IRC operators are primarily experience with IRC commands, civility, and a cool head. It should go without saying that you need to have been an active and frequent presence on the channel for a while before you will be seriously considered.

If you wish to request access to the wiki blog, the guidelines are as follows:
 * Good presence on the wiki, particularly on the community side. This means engaging in discussions! No amount of excellent content editing work, appreciated though it may be, is any reason in favour of access to the social media side of the wiki. Being present and active on the IRC channel is quite likely to help with this, too.
 * Being a trusted user on the wiki. Remember, access to the blog means you become one of the sort of official representatives of the wiki to the outside world web!
 * You need to already have a Tumblr account, and staff will likely take a cursory look at your existing blog(s) as part of their assessment.

Ylimegirl – Moderator
As ever, I stand by the fact that edit count is not everything, but here's one fun little fact: the top ten edit counts on this wiki are The Light6, Wikia, Aepokk Venset, BitterLime, Ylimegirl, Caligorg, some douchebag, Lp2277, Octachoron, and Kbmr. Excluding Wikia and our resident "bot", that list is 100% staff members apart from Ylimegirl. This certainly says something.

Moving onto more formally considered grounds than edit counts, I shouldn't need to tell anyone who has paid attention to wiki work in the last several months that Ylimegirl is one of our best editors. She's constantly around to add, improve, gnome, you name it. Just now, I took a cursory look at her contributions to get a feel for what she's been up to, and saw a whole host of categorised images. Huss knows that's one of the many huge maintenance jobs that really need doing and hardly anyone wants to bother with most of the time!

In short, I think there should be no doubt that Ylimegirl deserves to be a moderator. Frankly, she may well deserve to be a sysop not too far down the line, though I'd say we should take it one step at a time unless there is very strong agreement about that one
 * Support: I've had this idea in the back of my mind for ages, I've been thoroughly and consistently impressed by her work and would've nominated her ages ago had I found myself capable of knowing exactly how to go about that. I second everything SN has said, particularly the image categorizing, as having a range of people focused on distinct parts of the wiki drastically helps our productivity, and the overall quality.
 * In terms of edit count, SN is correct that it's not everything, but it certainly isn't nothing. I got to my place on the list having joined the wiki a significant amount of time after Light, bitter, and SN. LP joined shortly after me, and then he made the list. And then there's Ylimegirl! Someone who has been on the wiki for slightly more than a year, and she's in the top five! That's certainly a sign of dedication.
 * Above all that, Ylimegirl is incredibly responsible, punctual with edits, thorough, you name it. She even has a host of helpful templates and sandboxes that I hope we might be using someday soon. Ultimately, I think Ylimegirl is the absolute best choice of current active users to promote to moderator. Aepokk ∀ulpex 01:42, December 14, 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment: I think access to Caligorg may also be warranted
 * Support: Not much to say really; Ylimegirl has been a consistent editor. - The Light6 (talk) 04:13, December 29, 2014 (UTC)