Pokémon Wiki:Requests for User Rights

This is the page where users can request various rights and vote on other users who are requesting rights. Please read the following regulations and instructions completely before voting or placing a request.

To find the history of all the users with various rights. Click here.

In the event that an user with rights is being unruly or breaking the rules, a request for their demotion may be placed below in the Requests for demotion header. The same voting rules apply for this as well. The vote totals required for their demotion remain the same as those for promotions as well.

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Rules and Regulations

Upon your request, it will be discussed among community members for a period of two weeks.** After the time has expired, the user's request will be reviewed and a discussion may be held between all active administrators. If the request is denied, you are prohibited from requesting adminship or rollback rights for thirty days.* And remember, when voting or requesting rights, your signature must have a link to your userpage and talkpage.

Requirements for Requesting Rights

1. You should not have a ban history.*
2. You should not be less than a month old.
3. You must edit mainspace regularly.
4. You may self-nominate, but do so with discretion.
5. You must add an explanation of why you deserve administrative or rollback rights.

Requirements for Voting

1. You must be over two weeks old on the wiki.
2. You must provide a reason for your vote.
3. You must not have a ban history on the wiki.
4. Your vote must not be biased.*
5. You must have over 100 mainspace edits.

Requirements for Rollback

1. You must be at least one month old on the wiki.
2. You must have at least 400 mainspace edits.
3. You must not have a ban history.*
4. You must gain +3 votes in your favor by the end of the request.

Requirements for Administrator

1. You must be at least four months old on the wiki.
2. You must have rollback rights before requesting administrator rights.
3. You must have at least 500 mainspace edits.
4. You must not have a ban history.*
5. You must gain +4 votes in your favor by the end of the request.

Voting

When voting, remember:

• Supports count as +1
• Neutrals count as 0
• Opposes count as -1

Request for promotion

Alan Sycamore! (Administrator)

— Alan Sycamore! / Message Wall / Contributions
This is going to be my second and last request to be done on this forum. I will explain the reasons for making this request.

I joined this place in February 2017 and was given a chance to prove myself to be a good discussions moderator on November 2017. I proved that I'm capable enough of managing the Pokémon wiki discussions and have always lent a helping hand to all my fellow moderators. I have spent most of my time thinking about and caring for the wiki, implementing new ideas to keep the discussions alive, which everyone can attest to. Believe it or not, I've been a very active member on there and my activity proves it. I promptly take action on the troll and spam posts.

What came across my mind was that we moderators should have the blocking permissions as well in order to keep the offenders away and block them quickly on discussions whenever they come. Unfortunately, this permission is limited to the administrators only and we are unable to do anything more than just locking and deleting the posts. Other than that, we have to wait for the admins to come online and block. I understand that everyone can't be active 24/7 but there should be an admin who hails from the discussions to reduce the burden of other admins by helping out with the blocking of errant users, while the other admins will not be distracted from their other work. So in late 2019, I decided to enquire about the administrator rights with one of the bureaucrats, Energy X, and was told to do some edits and meet the requirements of the administrator.

I now meet the requirements of 500 edits(i have more than just 500 quality and mainspace edits) and I'm a rollback now. My discussions moderator badge proves it that I've been trusted by the administrators regarding the discussions here.

I am not asking for the admin rights because I want the admin rights and simply enjoy being one, but I'm asking them for blocks and some more helpings. After having an experience in editing area for more than a few months now, I've learned that I could do more than just blocking and I need a chance to prove myself worthy of it.

I believe this is the right time for me to apply for admin. And I will say it, if I prove to not be a good administrator, I will accept the removal of rights without voting.

I understand most of the things about administrator, content moderator and a discussions moderator and rollback as well. The wiki has two very important sides. A content area and a discussions area. A content moderator is someone who has the rights to delete/lock pages on the wiki side only. A discussions moderator is someone who has the rights to delete/lock posts and undelete/unlock rights on the discussions side only. The mutual rights between both roles is deleting and editing articles comments. An administrator has the privilege of both moderator classes with a few extra rights like blocking, changing wiki theme, editing css, editing wiki navigation and making categories. We discussions moderators are provided with the admin dashboard of this wiki, although we can only use a few tools from there.

I have said this before and will repeat again, I've been working hard on the discussions to make it good. I've suggested the existing categories there, and the rules that everyone sees now. I can take actions very quickly since I've been a very active discussions moderator on the discussion.

Although I've written everything about why I'm applying for the adminship, I'd like to clear up some queries regarding myself. I'm not some random person who popped up in the forum and asked for the adminship. I was appointed as a discussions moderator on November 13, 2017 and was trusted with the rights. I never misused my rights and have been helping the wiki discussions out with all I can do.

About the trust, I've been trusted by our veteran administrator Energy X regarding the moderator rights on here, not to mention the administrator rights on this wiki's discord server.

Please do not think that a Discussions Mod is incapable of handling the admin rights. I'm never interested in any additional rights, but I have to ask for them when I feel I need to help the place out by regulating the spams or vandals.

I need the tools which both the content moderator and discussions moderator individually lack. The blocking permissions. I happen to be a really mature user when it comes to using the tools and I never misuse them.

I believe I'm capable of the tools, but even if there is a voting for an administrator, I'll let the whole community decide it.

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Support

Support: If we are to take into account the Discussions, I support and, as AS has stated, he could block nuisance trolls. Ellis99 ^Volcanion 11:16, May 2, 2020 (UTC) 

Support: I agree with this as he stated. He could help with ban/blocking users like trolls spammers nonsense Vandals and any users or user who violates the rules and so on if our other mods are busy to help them detail reports and take necessary actions only if necessary to block or ban them..Trainer Micah (talk) 14:49, May 2, 2020 (UTC)

Support: I believe Alan Sycamore would prove out himself to be one of the best administrators of the wiki. He has done his duty as a Discussion Moderator very well, without any doubt, and I believe he will be a great administrator too. A moderator like him will be a gift to the community. I give my support. Lance Faulkner (talk)

Support: I would definitely want to see him as an admin. He would do a good job and we need more active admins! Mozart999 (talk) Wolfie 15:12, May 3, 2020 (UTC)

Support: Alan is a great mod and I appreciate his work. He is guy who takes all pressures calmly and does his work expertly. He sure has given me warnings. I know that he will become a great admin and I will always be in support with him. I give my support. I am user @Victory Kiddo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Victory Kiddo (talk • contribs)

Support: Alan is a nice moderator. He handles everything in a nice manner. I really appreciate his work. He does his work as an expert. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PJ2Dialga (talk • contribs)

Support: Oh!! Alan Sycamore, what a lovely mod he has been. Always helping people in times of need. Infact when I am always in trouble I always used to say him what my problems were and he always used to help me out. He has been really really awesome to me as well as to everyone. He should be made an admin here and I am sure he would do his works sincerely. Infact he is my favourite moderator here till now. Rishi 10:19, May 3, 2020 (UTC)

Support: I'll get to the point. No beating around the bush this time OwO. Alan is someone with whom I've spent most of my time with on wiki. He's a good mod. He knows how to behave nicely with everyone. His moderation skills amaze me. Electing him to be an admin is always welcomed. All in all, I've faith in him. Ik he's gonna make this wiki proud OWO — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arghya Chowdhury (talk • contribs)

Support: he would be a very great admin and I’d love to see him become one, even though I’m not too active here anymore.  Travjt ^(W•C•E)  06:32, May 5, 2020 (UTC) 

Neutral

Neutral: Honestly, I would not know or have any thoughts about that. At least both support and oppose to have a 1 vote on easch. Sonic2479 (talk) 11:07, May 4, 2020 (UTC)

Oppose

Oppose: While you have been active and contributed a lot. I don't see enough yet to already be promoted to Administrator. If you keep it up, I would be supportive in the future. Misch60 (talk) 10:55, May 3, 2020 (UTC)

Comments

Comment: If I were you, I would apply for Content Moderator rights. First, let this go through, then apply for the Content Moderator rights. Ellis99 ^Volcanion 09:12, May 2, 2020 (UTC)

Comment: I would like to remind the users of the voting requirement we have. Two of those points are: You must have over 100 mainspace edits. and You must not have a ban history on the wiki. Which unfortunately means that Victory Kiddo, PJ2Dialga, RISHIDEEP 92264, Arghya Chowdhury and Ellis99 don't meet those requirements. I know Ellis99 has voted in the past while he has a ban history, so there may be an exception but he has been blocked not too long ago, and that this concerns the Discussions mostly as well. However, the requirements have not changed at this moment of time which means that the votes for at least Victory Kiddo, PJ2Dialga, RISHIDEEP 92264, Arghya Chowdhury don't count unfortunately because they don't meet one or more points of the requirements. AND don't forget to sign your message by using ~~~~.--Lordranged7 (talk) 11:33, May 3, 2020 (UTC)

Comment: I understand what you are saying, Lord. Please feel free to remove their supports. But not for Ellis99, since they were blocked for a day only and they are a regular trusted contributor of this wiki. I hope, you understand and consider it. Alan Sycamore! (talk) 13:21, May 3, 2020 (UTC)

I have removed them and left Ellis for now. Unfortunately, Lance Faulkner doesn't meet the requirements as well to vote, so I removed his as well. They can vote, of course, when they do meet the requirements.--Lordranged7 (talk) 13:55, May 3, 2020 (UTC)

This would need to be discussed before implementing this change: but I propose removing the "no ban history" requirement for voting altogether. It doesn't affect anything, anyone who's going to vote with a ban history is not going to suddenly have their vote swayed towards one side or biased just because of it, it'll just prevent people like in this case who should still be perfectly eligible to vote from voting, and the lack of an asterisk next to it makes it ambiguous as if there's no exception to it. PokémonGamer* 15:32, May 4, 2020 (UTC)

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