Guild Wars Wiki:Requests for adminship/Farlo/Archive 1

Note: This RFA has been resolved. Please do not add further support/oppose opinions.

Farlo

This request is for the sysophood of Farlo (talk • contribs • logs • block log).
Created by ~FarloTalk 21:04, 26 July 2011 (UTC).

Status

Succeeded. 19:49, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Candidate statement

I've been around the GWW for a while now (going on four years I believe), and I might not have the experience some of the heavy-weights around here do, but I'm hoping that I'll be able to help out the current staff of admins, especially with the recent surge of vandalism. I'm not entirely sure how much additional help I could provide, especially after seeing everyone's "minute-or-less" reactions to posts and edits, but I thought I'd at least make an attempt and maybe help relieve some of the effort on the current team. I'm not going to bother listing my contributions or trying to convince any voters using them (check out my contributions or userpage if you want to see what I've done). My initial idea in applying for sysop-hood wasn't even to really apply, but to simply get as much neutral and helpful criticism as possible, and at the very worst, hopefully that's what I can get. So here it is, do your worst.

Support

1. I feel that Farlo is a great asset to wiki administration team because of his contribution to the wiki page, and also the mods and contributions to Texmod and daily edits for his interactive maps and Texmod.MafiosoTsuna 06:14, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
2. Most of the sysops are dead. elix Omni 06:41, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
3. Support. Sure, we could use another sysop, and if he screws up, we can always vote in Aiiane as bureaucrat in another six months and have him removed. -- FreedomBound 11:31, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
4. Seen him working to fight vandals and keep the noticeboard updated, I suppose the wiki could do worse. -Auron 12:07, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
5. Farlo has demonstrated leadership (map project), attention to detail (map project and elsewhere), persistance, open-mindedness, and has been vigilant in the fight against vandals. He is respectful and courteous, even when vehemently disagreeing with others and even when passionate about the topic. While I would prefer to have seen him in more conflict-resolution situations, his contributions show evidence that either (a) he will do the right thing (listen and act appropriately) or (b) confer with other admins before blundering in. His contributions show evidence that he learns quickly. (My only worry is that being an admin will slow down his content contributions...but he probably needs a break from that ;-) — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 17:50, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
6. Seeing the support and neutral's opinion both sides have a good point. But in the end, Farlo has demonstrated to do big massive work and with the recent vandal bot's, we need more active admins who can do the bulk involved with it. I agree that he hasn't mixed in a lot of discussions, but he also havent made wrong descissions/opinions. In my country there is an expression, speaking is silver, silence is gold. So I support.Rumian 00:02, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
7. Evidently I support farlo in his rfa since hes been of good use for the wiki with the map project. --File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.pngChieftain Alex 14:04, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
8. Farlo would be a great Admin in my opinion. I like his projects. Hisakaryn 00:55, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose. I don't really know much about Farlo so this isn't an overall opposition; instead, I'm just bringing up a single point against his promotion. Namely, User talk:Farlo/Archive 1#Copy vs move... - the user only found out what that "move" tab does a couple of months ago. This seems like a minor thing (and it probably is tbh), but it's a simple tool that's used quite regularly and it's usually the kind of thing that a new user has to be informed about, not one who's been around for four years. When I see that, I'm not sure he's experienced enough to know how to deal with deletions, rollback, protection, blocking and checkuser - not just the physical usage of each tool, but knowing when and why to use them. That's not to say he'll mess everything up and the wiki will implode, but nevertheless it doesn't inspire confidence. pling 15:10, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
2. As we now have AbuseFilter to handle a lot of the vandalism you were platforming on, it seems like a lot of your potential duties are taken. And given your slight unfamiliarity with the tools, I think a little more experience/looking at how admins do their jobs is the better choice. And you'll still be able to do all the projects you were intending. --JonTheMon 19:41, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
3. Oppose. As already indicated on the talk page, while I don't think that Farlo would make a bad administrator, I personally don't believe that he would be a worthwhile addition to the admin team either. From what he has shown here on the wiki, he is a great contributor, in terms of content, but I doubt that the gain of admin tools will help him to improve his actions on the wiki. And as he explained himself, he would restrict his administrative actions mostly to rather passive maintenance tasks, which is not really something the wiki needs. poke | talk 19:47, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Semi-Supportish Not really seen you enough in conflicts to know if you'd be good with those or not. (Kaisha) 72.148.31.114 04:15, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
2. Semi-Oppose-ish but agreed with kaisha...- Zesbeer 04:21, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
3. There's a difference between being a great contributor, and being a great admin. Farlo is a lot of the former. I haven't really seen him doing anything that merits getting the sysop tools so far, though. 67.180.237.90 06:35, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
4. Semi-Support-ish As per the ip above, I'd like to see cases of supporting being a good admin. Konig/talk 09:10, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
5. Oppose-ish I haven't seen you taking actions which would support your adminship. - J.P.Talk 16:46, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
6. I see this RfA as a great way for the community to adjust how it views your contributions. If this does not go through, I hope that between now and your next RfA you take some opportunities to impress us even more. Potential is a wonderful thing, and I believe you have it. G R E E N E R 05:38, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
7. Semi-Oppose-ish Reading through your submissions you seem very dedicated to things like the maps and templates and that is great, but none of the admin tools will help you at all with any of that. Also the community doesn't seem to know all that much about you or care all that much about your RFA. That said, I haven't seen a whole lot that makes me think you'd be a terrible admin or mis-use your 'powers'. --Rainith 00:50, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Request for Reconfirmation

1. Almost from day one, I haven't quite been comfortable with Farlo's adminship, and in writing an unrelated wall of text, I believe I've nailed down why: I don't think Farlo has the command of nuance that I expect of and consider necessary for admins. There is no question that Farlo's a good contributor and an asset to the wiki, but I think he's out of his depth as a sysop. He'd make a fine "janitor" sysop, to dredge up an old term, but given that it's effectively impossible to cleanly divide "janitor" sysop tasks and "discretionary" sysop tasks, I can only propose that he return to regular editor status. While he hasn't made any grave mistakes thusfar (a little jumping to conclusions here, a little getting caught up in drama there; nothing to jump down his throat about), I'd rather propose this now than wait for something serious to happen. - Tanetris 19:29, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
2. It probably sounds whack-job'ish in the current environment we live in right now, but I don't find him Political enough for this position. I don't agree with putting aesthetics over policy. ...I wanna see some ambition, even if it leads to a Wyn situation...
   --ilr 16:43, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
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