Forum:AR:Adoption request for CastleMiner Z Wiki

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Civilwargeek's request
Civilwargeek

Please link to the wiki here: CastleMiner Z 

How many edits have you made on that wiki?

-106 edits

How many days/months have you been editing there?

-20 Days

On the Special Pages -> Special:ListUsers when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it?

-January 7th, 2012; Sora20030c

Any other information:

I might not be the most tenured editor of this wiki but I have checked it (if not edited it) every day since I joined. I believe that I would be a good choice of moderator for this wiki so that I could delete spammed pages and more easily stop griefers.

Civilwargeek 02:06, April 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. I see there are a few other users editing on the wiki. Please be sure to talk to them about your request so they have a chance to help decide the wiki's new admin as well. Additionally, I'm a bit concerned by some of the language you've used on the wiki. There's no reason to use words like "retard" or "douchebag" in comments and edit summaries. Please don't do that anymore. Thanks. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 20:16, April 10, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello, first I would like to thank you for your interest in this matter. Regarding my request as opposed to the two other editors on the wiki, I am pretty sure that we meant to try for a "joint adoption" (I guess is how you call it) where all three of us would be admins so that there is no debate or dispute; I am not sure that it would work that way but if not thank you for the suggestion on communicating as to who would be the "one."
 * Also, I was a little surprised that you would be concerned by my language on the wiki. The first example you used I'm guessing would be here in which my fellow editor said, "Listen here you stupid piece of shit, we bust our fucking balls just to provide you ungratful bitches information about the game, if you make another Negative Comment about our work here one more time then your going to get ass HACKED BY EVERY FUCKING GAMER WHO LIKES PLAYING THE GAME," and I replied, "Jesus Dan! It's just a retard, you don't have to go full force," referring to the griefer in question as a "retard" because I believe that it takes a substantial lack of brain cells to go onto a page with useful information and purposefully replace said information with obviously false information in order to cause more work for faithful editors. Also, I am slightly let down that you would point out my "fault" of using retard while my fellow editor was not told anything about his strong use of language.


 * The other example you used I'm guessing would be about this gem of a grief which included a variety of sexual and homosexual terms applied to the front page of our wiki, rendering it useless, that I had to manually undo by going to previous pages and copy pasting, then manually filling in all the links because wikia does not support multiple undos at this point, nor does it offer source view for previous edits. I applied the derogatory name "douchebag" to this griefer because I thought this person was well deserving of a derogatory term such as this for completely ruining the front page of a wiki that I care for. I was very mad, as anyone would be after having that. Thank you for your time. I apologize in advance for replying to harshly if that is not what you meant by your comment but I felt that your comment was unfair and undeserved. Civilwargeek 22:42, April 10, 2012 (UTC)

First, if I haven't responded to an adoption request, and I haven't responded to Forum:AR:Admin Request for Castleminer Z, that means I haven't read it yet&mdash;so I haven't seen any of that user's contributions yet. As for the rest of your post, the context in which you said it doesn't really matter. In fact, in this case, it actually makes it more of a bad thing for your wiki. When you react to bad editors like that, it generally emboldens their bad editing. It's what's known as "feeding the trolls," and you want to make sure that you don't feed the trolls. Those kinds of people are generally looking for attention, so it's best not to give them that attention&mdash;especially in a way that uses explicit kinds of language. It's something that, as an admin, you would want to watch out for.

As for the joint adoption, I'll take a look at the other request shortly and then review them both at once. Thanks! - Brandon Rhea (talk) 22:47, April 10, 2012 (UTC)

Understood, thank you for your time and effort.

Civilwargeek 01:37, April 11, 2012 (UTC)

Dan67's request
What is your username?

Dima aka Dan67

Please link to the wiki here: Castleminer Z

How many edits have you made on that wiki?

over 250 and climbing

How many days/months have you been editing there?

For a couple of Months

On the Special Pages -> Special:ListUsers when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it?

Sora20030c at 15:49, January 7, 2012

Any other information: Working hard on the other indie game wikis and i wish i could be as helpful as possible to the communityDan67 16:16, April 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * King Frederick VI doesn't exist on the wiki, and Minerman isn't an admin. Sora20030c is the only admin, and hasn't edited in 3 months.  However, there are a few editors recently so you may want to start a Forum and message them about this adoption. Iggyvolz 16:47, April 9, 2012 (UTC)

Viper999's request
What is your username? Viper999

Please link to the wiki here: CastleMiner Z Wiki

How many edits have you made on that wiki? 100 (and counting)

How many days/months have you been editing there? 12 days

On the Special Pages -> Special:ListUsers when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it? On January 7th, 2012, Sora20040c (founder) created a page for CastleMiner Z Wiki at 15:49. He has been inactive ever since.

Any other information:

We need a new administrator to the CastleMiner Z Wiki, as they are needed to help lock pages to protect it against vandalism. These "griefers" have been targeting pages all over the Wiki for a while, so it would be great to further push them back and make it easier for our top editors.

Viper999 23:10, April 9, 2012 (UTC)

Staff response
Response on all the requests is forthcoming. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 22:53, April 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. Sorry for the super long delay. Can you let me know who is going to receive what rights, i.e. who will receive bureaucrat and admin, and who will just be an admin? Thanks! - Brandon Rhea (talk) 21:01, April 23, 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Response
So I messaged the other users and created a discussion page regarding this topic. I know for a fact that all three of us would like to be admins of the wiki. However, I think that a week of waiting for confirmation is enough so since no consensus was reached, I'm going to say that I think I should be bureaucrat. I believe this decision would be best so that our wiki can get admins as soon as possible, and I as a bureaucrat could promote the other members as bureaucrats if we find it necessary. Thank you for your time and effort in this case.

Civilwargeek 16:03, April 28, 2012 (UTC)