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Lucafriz

Nomination

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User is paramount to new card pages being created. Though they had some issues in the past as a relative new editor, they have clearly grown since then. I have no reason to believe they would abuse these powers and find they would get some use out of them in the work they're already doing. Cheesedude (talk • contribs) 23:58, July 4, 2016 (UTC) -->

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Thanks for the opportunity, I accept. (Lucafriz (talk • contribs) 02:58, July 5, 2016 (UTC))

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve as an administrator. Please answer the following four questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: I intend to continue to do what I currently already am doing on the wiki, and that's helping to make new card pages in a timely manner (either when information on the cards becomes available on the Org, or when the card debuts on the anime/manga). Even if I am not involved in the creation of an article, I will endeavor to make it more presentable to those who see it by linking gameplay terms in the card text to the relevant articles, and also adding property entries for the card's effects. I will also strive to move card pages to their official TCG English names and placeholder Org names (if any exist). I cannot totally promise accuracy, given that my grasp of Japanese is still somewhat poor (though I'm making efforts to improve on it), but I can promise speed in getting these articles up quickly and laying the framework so that I and others can come back and get down to making those pages look presentable. I know that the period when V-Jump and other magazines reveal a few new cards in one shot tend to be quite chaotic on the wiki, what with all the mass article creations for those new cards, and I hope to help out there as well.

Another thing I would like to discuss with the admins if it can be implemented, is allowing for Pendulum Scale values on the pages of Pendulum Monsters to link to the corresponding lists of other monsters who share the same Pendulum Scale value. We have such links for Levels, Ranks, ATK, and DEF, and I think Pendulum Scale values should get the same treatment. Of course, that all depends on how much tinkering with the templates for card pages such a proposal entails. I would like to advocate for making the wiki more navigable in ways similar to this though.

2. What do you consider to be your best contributions, and why?

A: I would consider my creation of property entries for card effects to be my best contributions, as I believe they better help users to navigate the card pages, by virtue of categorizing card effects by their unique traits. As someone who is somewhat obsessed with categorization, I'm a stickler for being able to look through these lists and find cards with similar qualities to each other since it helps in both deck building and seeing what other cards there are in archetypes other than the ones you use regularly. I try to look for threads of commonality between card effects and from there, if I find said threads, make a new property entry and sort cards into it.

I'm also somewhat proud of my write-ups for the Playing style sections of the "Aroma", "Burgesstoma", "Triamid", and "Cubic" articles, since those came about after I did some intensive study on the archetypes' inner workings. I hope to make more such write-ups in the future, though that is more a matter of finding enough time for it.

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

A: I will admit that a cursory glance at my talk page will show that I have gotten into some conflicts in the past (such as with UltimateKuriboh), particularly due to my own lack of knowledge on how the wiki worked at the time. I would like to thank UltimateKuriboh for his patience in dealing with me all that time, especially since I had somewhat of a tendency to not reply often to messages on my talk page. In hindsight, I look upon that period of time on the wiki in the past with disdain at myself and I did strive to improve on that by making myself better available to respond to messages on my talk page quick and promptly. I intend to continue to make myself more available to talk to other users in the future and better engage myself with the community on this wiki. I have on a personal level, never felt stress towards any disputes with others in the past on the wiki and bear no hard feelings whatsoever towards anyone here. I try to put myself in the other person's shoes and reflect upon my past behavior to think about why the person felt inclined to behave in the way he did. That is not something about me that will change.

4. Do you regularly contribute to any other wikis? Are you an administrator or bureaucrat on any of them, or do you have accounts with similar roles on forums, blogs, etc.? Could you provide links, if so?

A: I don't contribute regularly to other wikis, though I have dipped my toe in some from time to time, such as the TARDIS/Doctor Who wiki, the Bioshock wiki, and the Kaijudo wiki, all of whose franchises I am a big fan of. I don't regularly contribute on those wikis though, just an occasional pop in to edit grammar and correct some discrepancies if I see them. I am not an administrator or a bureaucrat on any other wiki. This wiki bears the bulk of my wiki-related activity.

Other editors may post optional questions for the candidate here.

Questions from Deltaneos

-- Deltaneos (talk) 23:37, July 5, 2016 (UTC)

5. Have you been involved in any of the following scenarios that demonstrate you can be trusted with block, delete and protect functions? Please provide examples where possible.

a. Discussing whether or not a page should be deleted.

I haven't personally been involved in such discussions directly, but when I add content which I feel may be controversial, like those lists categorizing Pendulum Monsters by their Pendulum Scales, along with certain Card Tips, I would leave a note in my edit summary telling people to delete the content if they feel that it shouldn't stay on the wiki. I believe that the addition and deletion of content is something that should be discussed and prefaced with notes amply where such moves are likely to be controversial.

b. Discussing what action should be taken during an edit war.

I haven't seen edit warring on any big scale since I've been here, though I would alert an admin to it if I see it. I just brought up an edit war to Cheesedude's attention on his talk page though.

c. Dealing with vandalism.

I've seen a bit of vandalism here and there over the years, though no solid examples come to mind right now. When I see it, I just revert it.

d. Dealing with two or more users who are in conflict with each other.

I'm not privy to any personal conflicts users may have with each other at the moment (though I suppose that would likely change if this request for adminship is successful). I am by nature a peacekeeper, so if I see it, I would try to open a dialogue between the disputing parties to find out the origin of the conflict and from there, determine what needs to be done about it.

e. Dealing with a user who is acting aggressive towards you.

I've never faced aggression from anyone before (at least nothing I can personally detect), and I believe that the community here is generally quite civil with each other. Like I said in my answer for Question 3, I don't hold grudges or get really stressed about such things.

f. Have there been many other scenarios where you would like to have been able to use an administrator function and are sure you would have made the correct call?

Well, at some points when I've accidentally suppressed redirects back when I was a new mover, I did wish I could revert my mistake and bring back the redirect. I have also sometimes prematurely made pages for cards when they already exist because of a mistake in the card name (since preliminary translations tend to shift and be revised quickly, necessitating redirects) and would like to also correct those mistakes on my own if I could.

6. What would do in the following scenarios?

a. Someone asks you for mover permissions.

b. A user keeps blanking a page, without commenting.

c. You find two articles for the same thing have been created.

d. A user is unhappy with an action taken by an administrator.

e. A page needs to be protected to stop an edit war and you must choose which version to lock the page on.

e. An account suspiciously similar to a recently-blocked one edits a page that the blocked user was causing trouble on.

f. A user repeatedly uploads images using the wrong file name.

7. Are there any pages with restricted access you'd like to edit, if this request succeeds?

8. Are there any areas you feel this wiki needs to expand or improve on, but you need admin access before you can help with them?

9. When is it appropriate to block someone from editing their own talk page?

10. When deleting a page, which is not pure vandalism, when do you feel it is appropriate to discuss first and when do you think it can be deleted on the spot?

11. When is it okay to block a user, who is not a vandal?

12. Are you worried any actions you will have to take, as an admin, could have a discouraging effect on other users?

Support

Lucafriz is a candidate that I have no qualms with supporting. I gave him mover rights way back when because I saw that he would make good use of the tools, and I believe he would also benefit from the other abilities admins have. He also doesn't show any hints of being negatively confrontational to other users. All in all I trust this user and thus offer my support. --Golden Key (talk • contribs) 12:08, July 5, 2016 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Other comments

To end this, I would like to extend my thanks to Cheesedude for the nomination. Regardless of its success, I am grateful for the opportunity to lay out what my plans for my activity on the wiki are and I am also happy to be able to tell others about my views and opinions. Also, regardless of the outcome of this nomination, I intend to continue editing on this wiki to the best of my ability.