Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/DarknessLord

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a request for adminship that did not succeed. Please do not modify it.

DarknessLord

Final (1/5/3) Ended 22:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

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This user has withdrawn for another chance in the future. I apologize. I was too eager to be an admin i got ahead of myself. I'll try to fix all your complaints. Cheers, D•a•r•k•n•e•s•s•L•o•r•d•i•a•n•••C••• 22:45, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

DarknessLord (talk · contribs) – This is my RfA. Please read my comments below. I have a few words to say before I go on:

I am member of five projects: WP Avatar, WP Star Wars, WP Wed Animation, Esperanza, and Adopt-a-user. I'm a good contributor to things like video games, TV shows that just had a new episode, etc. A few things, like this, I cleaned up for organization. Sure, I spend more time at my namespace editing than most, but I'm quite the thirteen-year old to know <gallery>, <font size>, <font color>, scrollboxes, <font face>, making userboxes, etc.

I think I have gone on long enough. This is not for my personal gain. I have a lot of good ideas that can help Wikipedia. D•a•r•k•n•e•s•s•L•o•r•d•i•a•n•••C••• 01:57, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog and Category:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A: I will help with image copyright tags, protect banned user's pages, and also do a little tyding up this place and that.

2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A: My custom userboxes I'm particularly pleased with, along with my collection. Deriving from that, my work on several templates, pages, userboxes, etc. I know I have a lot more userpage contributions that main ones but give me a chance.

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

A: Some things, such as Talk:Legendary Pokemon. But those were very immature 12-year-old things that I have gotten over. Please, don't take me for that.

General comments

• See DarknessLord's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool.

DarknessLord's editcount summary stats as of 20:31, November 6th 2006, using Interiot's wannabe Kate's tool. (aeropagitica) 20:34, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

• Could you please change your talk page to left justification? It would sure make it easier to sort through. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 22:23, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

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Discussion

Support

1. Moral Support You're a very good editor and your enthusiasm is most welcome but you really need to get involved in admin-related tasks. I tracked your contributions back to September and found no participation in XfD or vandal fight. No need for the tools. Good luck though.--Húsönd 20:03, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose - fewer than 1000 mainspace edits. Michael 20:38, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
2. Kindest possible oppose - Reviewing your edit history, you seem to have put in considerably more time on your own userpage than on actual articles. While the social aspect of Wikipedia is important, please remember that we are here first and foremost to build (and maintain) an encyclopedia. Please also remember to use edit summaries. --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 20:42, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
3. Weak Oppose - no need shown, long sig, over a 2:1 user:main namespace ratio. Show us you need it and show us you're here to help, not to chat, and I'll gladly support. ST47Talk 21:25, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

   Changed to Oppose because of violations of WP:NPA and WP:CIVIL, as well as apperant unfamiliarity with wikipedia policy and copyright law as evidenced by your talk. ST47Talk 21:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

4. Strong oppose because of your recent "anger leaking" on User:DarknessLord/Rebellion (Last edited before blanking Oct. 30), which included a swastika and an argument for allowing Fair use images on userpages. Not only does this show a lack of maturity, it shows a lack of understanding of the need to respect others' copyrights, which I think is very important for an administrator. Mak (talk) 21:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
5. Opppose sorry I have to say "no" on this. Being an admin almost inevitably gets you into stressful situations as you deal with the vandals and the trolls. You reaction to stress is to start calling everyone Nazis and threaten a "rebellion" against Wikipedia's fair use rules. Its one thing to do this on a subpage of your userpage; if you had the admin tools you would have been able to wreak serious damage to the project. Your talkpage is full of similar lapses into personal attacks and incivility. I'm afraid you just aren't ready to be an admin right now. Gwernol 21:45, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Neutral I think that you have potential to be a good admin but at the moment you do not demonstrate aptitude at some of the admin-related tasks. Two in particular to take note of for the future are participation in XfD discussions, where you can cite policies and guidelines to support your opinions and new page/recent change patrol and concommitant vandalwarning and vandal edit-reversion. You contribution histories don't indicate participation in either task, all of which are enhanced by the admin tools. In addition to this, the answers above aren't particularly informative and answer one demonstrates only one use of one of the tools. I would withdraw this RfA, seek an editor review and perhaps reapply in three or four months' time when you have participated in some of the above tasks. (aeropagitica) 20:41, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
2. Neutral Like aero said, you have great potential, but I do not think you have that much experience in XfD discussions or even in the article namespace. I know you have made dozens of edits to individual articles, but even so, there are only <800 edits that I see you have made to article namespace. Also, more than half your edits are to your user namespace. I suggest you withdraw this RfA, and run through an editor review. I think if you get more article namespace edits and participate in XfD discussions, your future RfA would succeed. Also, please use edit summaries! I only see that you made an edit summary for 3 of your last 50 edits. I suggest you write a brief edit summary for every edit you make. Most admin candidates usually have close to 100% edit summary usage for minor and major edits. Nishkid64 21:12, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
3. Neutral A couple of months' time to establish good habits and experience, and I'd probably support. --Gray Porpoise^{Phocoenidae, not Delphinidae} 22:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

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