Community Central:RfA/Leon2323

RfA Blurb
I would like to become an administrator to help with the Wikia community by reverting vandalism and improving the system messages. I will also delete pages which I feel should be deleted and protecting pages which have been vandalised a lot. I am currently an administrator on three Wikia wikis and can often be found coding JavaScript and CSS. I feel that the wiki could benefit from a little bit of improvement and I would like to make those changes. I will use my powers only when necessary but also be bold when using them. -- 23:25, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) Leon would also make a great administrator! --Phillip (talk) 23:26, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Full support and more! Leon, the coding guru, would certainly be a great admin. Leon's often here, so he could easily spot vandalism. :) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 23:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support here too. G .He (Talk!) 04:40, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. tzzA 22:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) support--EH1 12:13, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Weak Support - I do not know him very well, but from #wikia, he appears to be very knowledgeable in technical matters. Cheers, Gho st I nsi de the M ach ine ''(Whisper through the Storm ) (My Journeys ) (Omens ) 18:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) Sorry, I don't like the idea of collectively requesting for adminiship, then supporting each other, as you've done with JackPhoenix, I don't like your user page adverts. Both reminds me Wikipedia's dark side of having community that thinks that adminship (and requesting it) is a great fun or getting god's position around the project. Especially on Central Wikia - it's not. I always find Central as a really essential wiki, but I realized that two days ago when I saw these requests, much diffrent from what I seen here earlier. Szoferka 05:51, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I understand your concern about these 'adverts'. When I placed them on my user page, I couldn't think of any reason not to.  However, you have given a reason, and I thank you for that.  I have now removed both notices from my user pages and will leave it to other users to remove notices from theirs.  I hope you understand what I'm trying to say and that you will assume good faith.  Feel free to ask me any questions about this (until Thursday when I will be away for a fortnight).  -- 21:16, 25 March 2007 (UTC)


 * It's possible to remove vandalism without sysop flag, any change on system messages should be discussed first on their talk pages. --DCLXVI 18:04, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Comments
What pages do you think need protecting? Have you read the policy about protection? Angela talk 01:24, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I would protect pages that are heavily vandalised pages. I would usually semi-protect pages if it is usually users who haven't logged in that vandalise the pages.  If the pages are being moved by page move vandals, I'd set it to stop people from moving the page.  I try not to protect pages but I will if the page is being abused.  Of course, there are some other reasons to protect a page which are given at Protection.  -- 19:10, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Can you give any examples please? I'm concerned that you want to be an admin just so you can lock the wiki down, which is not the right way to approach vandalism. The advantage of adding more admins is that you don't need to protect pages since there are plenty of people around to revert any vandalism. Angela talk 02:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I would prefer not to protect any pages if possible. Wikis are meant to be editable by anyone.  I think that pages that are vandalised regularly by different users should be protected (although I think that all the pages that need to be protected at the moment already have been).  If I have to keep on coming back to a page to revert vandalism created by many users, I would probably protect it.  -- 22:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I have two questions: --DCLXVI 22:37, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 * What is the difference between the administrators' revert option and the built-in the current version of MediaWiki new feature, which gives the users a tool to revert edits without a sysop flag?
 * What do you mean with "improving system messages"? Perhaps you should point to some messages that need to be improved.


 * The administrators' revert option (rollback), reverts all the edits of the last user that has edited a particular page. The new MediaWiki feature (undo), reverts the changes in a diff unless someone has made edits to the changed lines since then.
 * When I said "improving system messages", I meant making them easier to understand. Maybe someone might get confused by something the MediaWiki system messages said, I could probably improve it.  -- 17:58, 14 April 2007 (UTC)