Community Central:Admins

If you can answer yes to the following questions, please ask to be an administrator in the requests and nominations for adminship section below.


 * 1) You would like to help keep the Central Wikia free from vandalism and other bad edits,
 * 2) you are an admin on at least one other Wikia,
 * 3) you understand how to use admin powers (see user access levels and the administrators' how-to guide), and
 * 4) you feel you're trusted by the Wikia community.

Users who feel that someone else fits most of the above criteria may nominate that person in the same section below.

For a list of current administrators, please see Special:Listadmins (Staff also have admin rights on all wikis). Users who are no longer active will have their adminship removed (this can be re-applied for at any time). If you feel an admin is no longer suitable, please raise that issue in the Requests and nominations for de-adminship section below.

Admins of the Central Wikia can be contacted via the off-site status page when Wikia is down since they have contact details of various people who might be able to fix the site.

Requests and nominations for adminship

 * If you nominate someone else for adminship, please let them know that they should leave a message here stating whether or not they accept the nomination. Users will be made admins after one week if there are no objections.

Manticore
I'd like to nominate Manticore for Central Wikia adminship. He's an active and experienced user with over contributions. He is very friendly and has welcomed numerous newcomers. In addition, he greatly helped Central Wikia by tagging wikis that need adoption as well as assisting in the help desk forums.

As an administrator and bureaucrat on Halopedia, he has demonstrated that he understands the proper usage of admin tools. He is often available on IRC, and can provide support related to magic words and advanced templates. On top of that, he actively patrols recent changes and reports cross-wiki spam, and it would be beneficial if he could manage the spam and title blacklists. Overall, I believe that Manticore is an excellent candidate for Central adminship. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 17:59, 18 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I gladly accept this nomination. Central adminship will certainly make dealing with spam easier. ;) -- Manticore  Talk 18:11, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Support

 * As the nominator. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 17:59, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * GHe (Talk) 20:21, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * --Az1568 21:30, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * yep, good--Phoenix-wiki 21:40, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 *  Phil.e.  [Talk to me] 21:41, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Greyman ( Paratus ) 21:42, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Pinky Talk 21:44, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Real96 23:31, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * If Treywiki can't oppose, why can Real96 support? It appears this account doesn't seem to have many edits, maybe 5 or 6 as opposed to 1 to 2. Vagstar (leave me a message) 00:14, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Real96 has been a Wikian for a long time edit-wise (first edit in or before March of this year) and has made contributions on other Wikia wikis too. GHe (Talk) 01:59, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for that clarification. Vagstar (leave me a message) 04:03, 19 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Although he arbitrarily banned me from IRC yesterday after I identified myself to NickServ, I do agree with Jack that on Wikia-side he's pretty qualified, IRC conduct...needs some work. That's not biased either per yesterday's incident, this is based on my experience in #wikia over the past 2 months and per Dantman below. I don't see any reason why giving him central sysop would be anything but helpful. And getting constantly pinged on IRC while I'm typing this by a particular individual trying to sway my vote is really annoying. Reading his comments on here and his harassing behavior in PM on IRC in the past 15 minutes only makes me look at his oppose reasons as less and less valid. -- 01:43, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

 * Zomg *absolutely* not. Vagstar  Sign my guestbook 19:58, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but aren't you this user? If you could add something useful to your objection, that would be appreciated. -- Manticore  Talk 20:10, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Rather redundant that you mention wikipedia here, I thought this was wikia? Vagstar (leave me a message) 23:15, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that, above you are mentioned as "friendly." The times I've come across you on IRC, which happen to be a lot, you've been very abusive, and rude. That's just about the opposite of friendly. Let me know if you need more, I'm happy to provide it. His new tools of #wikia ops = example. Vagstar  Sign my guestbook 20:27, 18 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm with vagstar on this. Trolls should not be admins. TREYWiki 20:37, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Please note, that this user have only one edit over all wikias. --DCLXVI 20:47, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: Background info of user on Wikipedia. GHe (Talk) 20:52, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * It is really appropriate to bring this up? Please grow up. Thanks. TREYWiki 21:11, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I believe that the two pieces of information provided above are appropriate and relevant to this matter. Firstly, this RfA is intended for Wikians to voice their opinions on a candidate for Central Wikia adminship. At the time of DCLXVI's checking, you only had one edit over all Wikia wikis (the opposition vote). Under such circumstances where you barely have any experience on Wikia, it would be more appropriate for you to post your comments in the comments section rather than taking a stance and vote.
 * Secondly, you accused Manticore of being a troll but you gave no explanation nor proof. In a background check I did, you were blocked on Wikipedia for "campaign of harassment and assumption of bad faith and edit warring" and "posting personal information; stalking". Under such circumstances, it is not prudent for you to make the remark you made about Manticore. GHe (Talk) 22:36, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Please try to keep the temperature of this page down. Treywiki only made a Wikia account to vote here, so it's not worth fighting about. Angela (talk) 04:21, 19 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Weak oppose... wouldn't say he's a troll, but I'm not sure if he should really be trusted with adminship. In the IRC channel, he's made some questionable decisions regarding his op access, and at Halopedia he's not very well liked because of apparent abuse of his sysopness. I don't entirely disagree with any of the decisions he makes, but they are certainly weird, which is why I am opposing his adminyshipness. -- NOTASTAFF  GPT ( talk )( eating ) 21:23, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Regarding this, the following is from #halopedia channel last night, where I was under another nick, "Channie". As you may know, I have 20 different and linked IRC nicks, and I have to use them to make sure that freenode staff won't drop them...

  cya  greetings  !insult Me  Channie: rar Jack_Phoenix  its jack...  hey jack Wow, all of us are really lame, we on an IRC for a halopedia fansite.  rar halo*  you're impersonating Guitar_player_001, btw, as he's registered that username on Halopedia, so I'm going to have to kick you.  someone !insult me!  ahaha  Channie:hi  who is  i was gonna say, you can't have double standards on nicks GPT :]  077, you suck  Ajax: you blow! <Channie> hi <Sgt_Johnson> wow <SPARTAN-077> suck and blow are opposites, correct? <Sgt_Johnson> they both happen during... <Sgt_Johnson> er.. <Sgt_Johnson> yeah <GPT> Channie: thanks for playing "impersonate the Halopedian." you have lost. good day! -ChanServ- [#halopedia] Please make sure you are aware of the channel rules and regulations - http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Halopedia:IRC_Channel <SPARTAN-077> wb <Channie> w..t...h? <GPT> Channie: would you like to be banned, or will you stop impersonating people? <Channie> I am /not/ impersonating anyone <RR|Neuroscience> thepie, got your text. <SPARTAN-077> this is Jack Phoenix your talkiong to! <SPARTAN-077> greetings! <RR|Neuroscience> you have a few moments to get called? :P <GPT> Channie: you are impersonating http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/User:Channie RR: yeah sure <Channie> ... how do you know thats not the real channie? <GPT> Channie: that is a registered username on Halopedia, but it is not registered to you. <WRAITH> great this is hopeless, i have to cut the power to my LT it's @#$%ing up, anyways i will be online. GT WraithAscendant <GPT> thepie: because it's Jack_Phoenix, but that *username* is registered to GP001. <Churchreborn> Hi Tes. <Channie> this IRC username was registered /before/ the user account, most likely oh. <SPARTAN-077> Church! <Tesfan> http://halo.wikia.com/index.php?title=RR&redirect=no .......o_O <GPT> Channie: use the nick all you want... just not in here. <SPARTAN-077> hello <Tesfan> Are mainspace pages redirecting to userpages allowed? <Channie> GPT: please understand that there are /more/ freenode channels than #halopedia... <GPT> Tesfan: no <GPT> Channie: then use that nick in them instead of here. <SPARTAN-077> g2g, happy saturday! <HellzJay> like half of the people in my clan are playing assassins creed right now <GPT> Channie: banned. bye!
 * SPARTAN-077 shames Johnson for thinking that way!
 * SPARTAN-077 beheads him
 * ChanServ gives channel operator rights to GPT.
 * You have left #halopedia (requested by GPT).
 * You're now speaking on #halopedia.
 * Topic for #halopedia is: Welcome to #halopedia | Halopedia, the Halo Wikia - http://halo.wikia.com/ | Channel rules - http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/IRC | Recent changes - #cvn-wikia-halo | Fifth Podcast released
 * Topic for #halopedia set by Manticore Thu Nov 15 08:47:13 2007.
 * ChanServ gives voice to RR|Neuroscience.
 * Tesfan (i=4c540c90@gateway/web/cgi-irc/irc.wikia.com/x-5e72b556e530aff5 ) has joined #halopedia.
 * SPARTAN-077 quit (Remote closed the connection).
 * WRAITH quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)).
 * ChanServ gives channel operator status to GPT.
 * GPT sets ban on *!*@wikia/Jack-Phoenix
 * For the record, if this wasn't op abuse, then I don't know what is...when was I informed that I was supposedly "impostering" someone? I have been a user of Freenode IRC server for a rather long time and I've owned the nick Channie probably as long as I've owned IRC nicks Jack_Phoenix and JackP|Away. Besides, if I was "impostering" somebody, couldn't the nick be banned, and not my whole cloak? This is from #halopedia channel's banlist, as of now (you can access it by typing in <tt>/mode #halopedia +b</tt>): * #halopedia Ban list: Sun Nov 18 00:04:02 *!*@wikia/Jack-Phoenix GPT!n=GPT@wikia/Guesty-Persony-Thingy


 * Confirmation from third party with regards to the ban (Timezone = EST):

<pre style="overflow:auto">===	GPT!n=GPT@wikia/Guesty-Persony-Thingy banned *!*@wikia/Jack-Phoenix from #halopedia on November 17, 2007 5:04:02 PM.
 * GHe (Talk) 22:56, 18 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Also, GPT had access on #swfanon, the IRC channel of Star Wars Fanon Wikia. And the result? See User talk:Jack Phoenix/Archive 2. He blatantly abused his access and tried to make me look bad in front of the SWFanon community. Likewise, he impostered another SWFanon admin, SquishyVic and tried to make us look abusive IRC ops in front of our community.


 * This is from #wikia in August, related to the impostering case mentioned above:

<pre style="overflow:auto"> August 28 01:15:31 <Dantman>	GPT, Your reason for using *!Ashley@* ? August 28 01:15:50 <GPT>	I dunno August 28 01:16:04 <Dantman>	Sounds like time for a sentence... August 28 01:16:13 <GPT>	...? August 28 01:16:28 <Dantman>	List out your Nicks and the one Username you use... August 28 01:16:36 <GPT>	why? August 28 01:16:54 <Dantman>	Splarka, Jack, me... sannse... August 28 01:17:02 <Dantman>	Repeat Impostering August 28 01:17:12 <GPT>	what? August 28 01:18:23 <GPT>	what are you talking about? August 28 01:18:36 <Dantman>	A lock only allowing you to use your own name sounds like a good idea before someone else desides to just ban *!*@unaffiliated/gpt August 28 01:18:44 <GPT>	what are you talking about? August 28 01:19:13 <GHe|NotAvailable>	Dantman: more like *!*@*/gpt August 28 01:19:37 <GPT>	...? August 28 01:19:59 <Dantman>	meh... You need to contact a Freenode staffer to change the @*/ last time I checked... August 28 01:20:07 <mattis^>	hihi http://www.communitywiki.org/odd/HiveWiki/WikiaHive August 28 01:21:06 <GPT>	Dantman: really, I have no idea what you're talking about. when have I impersonated anyone? August 28 01:21:14 <GHe|NotAvailable>	... August 28 01:21:41 <Dantman>	denial doesn't work when people in the channel have witnessed it many times... August 28 01:21:56 <Dantman>	I don't even need to search my IRC logs for it August 28 01:22:01 <GPT>	just tell me what you're talking about. August 28 01:22:34 <Dantman>	Changing your username to that of another person... In most cases one with some authority such as a Central Sysop, Janitor, or Staff member... August 28 01:22:43 <GPT>	when have I done that? August 28 01:22:55 <GHe|NotAvailable>	ahem.. August 28 01:22:59 <GPT>	what? August 28 01:23:16 *	GHe|NotAvailable digs up evidence.. August 28 01:23:36 <GHe|NotAvailable>	http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Jack_Phoenix/Archive_2#Swfanon_op_access August 28 01:23:46 <Dantman>	As a side note while GHe is digging through long logs... Your impostering Jack's username right now... August 28 01:24:23 <GPT>	GHe|NotAvailable: I thought he would be okay with that. I even told the guy that I was GPT pretending to be him. August 28 01:24:40 <GHe|NotAvailable>	Apparently, he's not. August 28 01:24:50 <GPT>	Dantman: I'm not pretending to be Jack_Phoenix, tho, so I can use Ashley if I want. August 28 01:24:55 <Vagstar_away>	?? August 28 01:25:13 <mattis^>	does a feed for all changes in the entire wikia-hive exist? August 28 01:25:26 <Dantman>	mattis^: not yet... August 28 01:25:41 *	GHe|NotAvailable really wish freenode had kill protection.. August 28 01:25:43 <mattis^>	sound like comng up :) August 28 01:25:50 *	GHe|NotAvailable just found http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:IRC August 28 01:25:57 <Dantman>	GPT: Doesn't matter... Using another user's Nick/User isn't ok even when not actually pretending to be them... August 28 01:26:07 <mattis^>	too fast anyway ;) August 28 01:26:18 <GPT>	Dantman: except it isn't HIS username. he didn't register it with Freenode or anything... August 28 01:26:29 <GPT>	GHe|NotAvailable: that was with permission. August 28 01:26:39 <Dantman>	That would be valid if your name was Ashley, but I doubt that... August 28 01:26:58 *	GPT doubts that Jack_Phoenix's name is Ashley August 28 01:27:20 <mattis^>	my dads dog's called Ashley. August 28 01:27:23 <Dantman>	That's true... but jack is known to use that username... he doesn't change it August 28 01:27:34 <Dantman>	That's why it's itentifyable as his in this case August 28 01:28:09 <GHe|NotAvailable>	there was also a    ?=SquishyVic      once in #swfanon August 28 01:28:12 <GPT>	but everyone knows that I'm not Jack, so if you see "GPT (n=Ashley@unaffiliated/gpt)" you're gonna know it's not Jack. August 28 01:28:13 <GHe|NotAvailable>	used by GPT August 28 01:28:19 <Dantman>	And I don't recall Splarka giving you permission to use his Nickname August 28 01:28:27 <GPT>	when did I use Splarka's nick?


 * Besides, I cannot be sure how objectively you're looking at this...due to your failed RfA. Making <tt> </tt> is quite childish to me. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 22:46, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

I banned you because you were using the username of another Halopedian in Halopedia's channel, not because you were using a nick that didn't belong to you. About the SWFanon thing, I wasn't trying to make you look bad, as I have explained to you. About the other impostering things, those were a long time ago. Maybe not chronologically a long time ago, but personally a long time ago, and I have matured very much since then. As for the hidden comments, I was making a joke, and if you've got something wrong with that, *you* should stop making jokes, or else you're a hypocrite. As for bringing *me* into this discussion very clearly labeled "Manticore," that seems a lot more childish than anything I've done. -- NOTASTAFF  GPT ( talk )( eating ) 22:58, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I always thought you weren't really supposed to paste logs, but I guess that rule has long since been abolished. But is this really relevant to a "Manticore" discussion? I would think not. Vagstar (leave me a message) 23:03, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

In Jack's defence, the "Channie" account has all of 15 edits, and is a rather obvious joke sockpuppet. I have seen him use that nick, albeit infrequently, long before that account made any edits. See w:c:halo:Halopedia talk:IRC Channel for more discussion on the matter of IRC impersonation. -- Manticore  Talk 03:15, 19 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't really care about that, that isn't about you, is it? I'm at loss to why it was brought up in your RFA. Vagstar (leave me a message) 04:03, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't get it. What do these logs have to do with Manticore? If nothing, please remove them. This page is not the place for general #halopedia disputes. Angela (talk) 04:25, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Comments
IRC =/= Wikia. I've seen this user a lot and he's always been helpful.--Phoenix-wiki 21:50, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Apparently, I didn't make myself clear, wikia is included in this. Vagstar  Sign my guestbook 21:53, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't normally get in on RfA's unless there's a reason for me to add input but I'll provide a little bit:
 * I would like to note that Manticore has been the one in the past to bring PinkyBot (Before it was configured to not do anything in #wikia) into #wikia to make use of the insultive !blame features.
 * I should also note that IRC is a valid thing to consider, as #wikia is part of Wikia and many users on Wikia wiki come into #wikia for help. Disruption in IRC disrupts the wiki as well because the same groups of people are on both.
 * However, TREYWiki should be ignored as listed above. And GPT has proven to be a disruptive person in the past so the feedback from other users should be considered rather than his.
 * Phoenix-wiki actually has not been in IRC very much, or for very long. If we're taking considerations of IRC in we should take the input from users who actively stay in IRC and have been around for a long time. (Vagstar has been around #wikia longer than Phoenix-wiki)
 * Personally Manticore never made the same helpful impact on me that I noticed from Jack and moreso GHe. I didn't really notice much coming out of him. Personally I'd like to see how he's changed from when he'd bring PinkyBot into #wikia even though he was told not to.
 * I just did a search of Manticore through my IRC logs. Which have an extremely substantial size, especially for #wikia. And I don't see him in there actively helping the new users coming in out. I can barely even detect it. I see 99% more of him participating in Jack_Phoenix's #cabalistic ways and asking for help then I see him giving help.
 * ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Nov 19, 2007 @ 00:21 (UTC)
 * I also find that Manticore has little to no patience with some of the newbies in #wikia, and has even kicked some of them before with little to no reason. Vagstar (leave me a message) 00:30, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yup, as I assumed. Jack Phoenix is proposing empty ideas in the nomination, Manticore certainly has helped the forum area, with 29 edits, in two months. Maybe 7% of the contribs, if I remember. 41% of his contribs are in the "user talk." That sure is a lot, isn't? Vagstar (leave me a message) 01:15, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

List of administrators
Administrators are sorted by the date on which they became administrators. All staff also have admin access.


 * August 2007
 * Phil.e.


 * May 2007
 * Dantman


 * April 2007
 * Leon2323


 * March 2007
 * Jack Phoenix


 * January 2007
 * GHe


 * November 2006
 * Cid Highwind


 * June 2006
 * Szoferka


 * May 2006
 * Kirk


 * January 2006
 * Robin Patterson
 * Chronarion


 * July 2005
 * DCLXVI


 * May 2005
 * CocoaZen
 * Jellochuu
 * Mathx314


 * April 2005
 * Me at work
 * GreenReaper
 * JamesTeterenko