Guild Wars Wiki:Requests for adminship/Indochine

Indochine
This request is for the sysophood of User:Indochine (talk &bull; contribs). Created by Wyn 21:09, 31 August 2008 (UTC).

Status
Succeeded. 05:48, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Candidate statement
First of all thank you very much for the RfA nomination from Wyn.

I don't really want to write a lot about myself as I know and believe the outcome of this RfA will be decided on my contributions rather than what I write here. Being a sysop is something I feel I'd be quite good at and I've mastered the basics of using the tools on a test wiki of mine and I know that I will use them in a mature, level-headed, and unbiased way in practice, for real.

I may not contribute much to policy discussion but I've learnt the policy from my mistakes; I have a good grasp of them and how to enforce them - something I'd like to take to the next level by being a sysop.

Thank you. --  Indochine  talk 21:56, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) Support. I feel that Indochine would handle the sysop tools well, he has a calm head, a firm grasp on policy, and has worked tirelessly for the benefit of this wiki. My expanded comments. --[[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png | Wyn's Talk page]] Wyn 21:28, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Support. *copies Wyn* -  anja  [[Image:User Anja Astor sig icon.png|talk]] 21:38, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. No reason to say no :). Dominator  Matrix  21:44, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. *copies Anja* -- Shadowphoenix [[Image:User Shadowphoenix Necromancer.png|19x19px|Please, talk to me; I'm so lonely ;-;]] 22:09, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. No real reason to oppose, nor reasons to stay neutral, so supporting the candidacy.--Fighterdoken 22:20, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 6) Weak Support. I was a bit unsure about this first, but in the end I trust Indochine and would be happy to have a completely new face within the administration team :) (Added "weak" because of reasons given by ab.er, brains, DE and my initial insecurity) poke | talk 22:21, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 7) Weakish Support: (because it isn't entirely weak, per se) I feel almost exactly like DE. There are loads of reasons to support Indo, a reason or two to oppose, but I've never had any real conversations with Indo to get a feel with what he's like and where he stands on certain issues. However, many other people feel they can trust Indo, and looking through his contribs, I see nothing that really makes me nervous about Indo with sysop tools. Lastly, with Aiiane's bureaucratship, we're down to four active sysops. The wiki desperately needs active sysops. If Indo becomes more active, like discussed on the talk, he would more likely than not make a fine sysop.  Calor  [[Image:User_Calor_Sig.png|19px|Talk]] 00:29, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 8) Support.Solid wiki'er and trustworthy user,think he will make a fine addition to the team -- Salome [[Image:User_salome_sig.png|19px]] 03:12, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 9) Support Invisible doesn't mean inactive. More responsibility can generate more visibility. -- Silverleaf  [[Image:User Silverleaf sig.png|User_talk:Silverleaf]] 07:17, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 10) --Burning Freebies 07:34, 1 September 2008 (UTC), I just feel this guy can do good. His userpage shows he has a good understanding of graphics on the wiki and his contributions show his good intentions.
 * 11) Having sufficent contributions, but spread out over the full lifespan of the wiki is not a disadvantage. Backsword 09:12, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 12) Weak Support. Per Calor. &mdash; Galil [[Image:User Galil sig.png|Talk page]] 11:53, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 13) You keep this place copyvio free, and your determination at that tells me that you will be determined at your job of a Sysop if you get it. &mdash;  ク   Eloc  貢  18:36, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) no thanks sir. --Cursed Angel  [[Image:User Cursed Angel Signature.jpg|19px|talk]] 22:10, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) User may be able to understand the tools and policies, but that's not a very high standard. Without a clear goal or reason, I'm not sure I can support at this point - most of the work I've seen Indo do has been with copyrights and image attribution, yet sysop tools wouldn't help very much with that. - Auron 07:47, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose. Trusting a user with sysop tools is one thing; whether or not it is useful is another. A valued contributor he is in the image department, but I neither see any interest in matters pertaining to how a wiki should function nor much participation in the more "visible" areas of the wiki. I am just unsure as to how Indochine might handle conflicts. -- ab.er. rant [[Image:User Ab.er.rant Sig.png| ]] 14:23, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) Oppose. lol --Venomoth 11:27, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Neutral

 * 1) Neutral.  Indochine is, without a doubt, one of GWW's most valuable contributors, and I don't doubt that he would use the Sysop tools wisely.  That said, in large part due to my own ignorance (i.e. I don't know Indochine very well), I'm unable to gauge the extent to which he "needs" the Sysop tools (I hate using that as a reason for refraining from supporting this RfA, but it's a valid concern in my mind, nevertheless) and I'm equally unable to gauge his "grasp of policy" (again mostly due to my own ignorance coupled with relatively few contributions to the GWWT namespace, et. al.).  For the record, however, I'm leaning heavily toward support (if weak support).  [[Image:User Defiant Elements Sig Image.JPG|19x19px]]  *Defiant Elements*   +talk  22:06, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Neutral. After looking through some on Indochine's contribs, it appears that most of his work deals with copyvios. While this is valuable and necessary work, I am not sure how the sysop tools would help him with this. Also, while I believe that, given the tools and the associated responsibility, he will become more active and helpful, I do not know him well enough to be entirety certain. Additionally, while we are currently in need of a greater number of sysops, this is, firstly, not a valid reason for promoting a less able candidate, and, secondly, this is partially negated by the fact that there are three RfAs above that appear likely to succeed, as no one has yet raised any valid objections to any of them. Lord Belar  04:23, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) Neutral. Not really sure how he would use the sysop tools. --Xeeron 09:49, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) Neutral (but leaning towards oppose). Without seeing Indochine involved in user conflicts or "dramatic situations", I can't make an accurate decision on how he will act when he should play a part in resolving them. Indochine is ... known (:P) for his efforts at dealing with copyright violations and complaints from those who don't want their favourite images deleted (and I commend him for doing so), but all these actions, reasons, and solutions are written down in policy. Without seeing Indochine in matters where discretion is needed, I don't know whether I should support or oppose; however, the fact that I haven't seen Indochine in those situations makes me lean towards opposition -- I can't safely assume that upon becoming a sysop, Indochine will act appropriately. I also agree with Xeeron's response, and some of Belar's. --[[Image:User Brains12 Spiral.png|18px|]] Brains12 \ talk 16:35, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 5) Neutral. While no doubt a great contributor, I've not seen enough activity outside of tagging for copyvios (which, mind you, you do a great job on) and such to be able to vote support. I'm leaning towards weak support, but for now I'll have to say neutral. Kokuou 20:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 6) Neutral. As Plingggggg mentioned I haven't really seen Indochine deal with situations that require discretion and thus can't make a proper assessment as to how he would deal with certain situations. While he has done well in dealing with copyvios as well as explaining to the uploader the reasoning behind the copyvio tag on their image as was also said above this is all written down in policy. Finally as Xeeron I'm not entirely sure how he would use the sysop tools. So basically I agree with what Pling said although I'm not necessarily leaning in either direction. -- Kakarot [[Image:User_Kakarot_Sig.gif|Talk]] 21:28, 6 September 2008 (UTC)