UESPWiki:Patrollers/Nominations

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[edit] Before you Nominate

If you are nominating yourself, be sure that you have read the Patrollers page, and understand what is expected out of a patroller. If you are nominating someone else, make sure you contact them beforehand and make sure they read the Patrollers page.

It is a good idea to look over the Completed Nominations to see what strengths and weaknesses were taken into consideration when others were supported or opposed in previous nominations.

[edit] Nominations

After nomination, there is a one week interval to allow the community to ask questions and vote on the new patroller. After this week, an Administrator will decide on the consensus and either refer the request to Daveh (if the consensus is to make the nominee a patroller), or drop the nomination (if the consensus is to not make the nominee a patroller).

[edit] Current Nominations

If you would like to nominate someone (including yourself) add his/her name below, with a reason for the nomination.

[edit] Matthewest

I am quite confident in my nomination for I believe I have proven myself to the wiki this year. I have perfected my wiki formatting and I will place a link in text wherever possible as you can see in the Roleplaying page. I am adept at creating pages as you can see here. Today I went through the entire Roleplaying page and added links wherever possible. I have completed one task on the task list where I had to go through all the Tamriel Books that needed formatting and format them. I also added links in the process as you can see in many of those books. Although I did need a little help with those pages, I have learnt alot more and I have almost no problem in the wiki. I always have a new window open in place for the Recent Changes so if an edit is not right, I will correct it like any patroller would. Since my previous nomination, I have learnt much and feel I am ready to take on the role of a Patroller. I would like to thank many people for helping me whenever I was in doubt on the wiki and I can tell you, the constructive criticism has payed off indeed. You can almost always find me in the UESPWiki Java Client chatroom if you need to discuss any matters with me.

Strengths:

  • Formatting Pages
  • Adding links
  • Fixing spelling mistakes
  • Undoing edits
  • Warning users
  • Creating pages
    • Creating redirects to pages
  • Knowledge of Oblivion and all its expansions as well as some knowledge of Morrowind
  • Reviewing edits in the Recent Changes page
  • Answering any questions
  • Understanding the importance of the difference between american spelling and british spelling
  • Clicking 'Show Preview' before saving any changes
  • Adding 'Stub' or 'Needs Image' tags where necessary
  • Cleaning up pages
  • Using Templates
  • Modifying tables and summaries
  • Using the 'Minor Edit' checkbox when necessary
  • Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation

Weaknesses:

  • Uploading images (although I cannot take my own since I am an xbox 360 user)
  • Programming (As Rpeh mentioned in our conversation)
  • Creating templates (although I can use them fine)
  • Summary codes
  • Some types of tables
  • Knowledge of the CS
  • Knowledge of Mods

[edit] Votes

  • Oppose: Part of the job of a Patroller involves actively checking, confirming and validating things before you make a conclusive edit. A key part of the job is that your edits must be at a quality where they can essentially be ignored by other editors; no further refinement, checking, tweaking etc, is required. Sending warnings, creating pages and shoe horning links into things is all well and good, but weaknesses such as lacking grammar and punctuation still require other editors to followup and make corrections. --Saruuk 05:12, 9 July 2008 (EDT)
My grammar, spelling and punctuation are fine at the moment so other editors wouldn't need to look through my edits for spelling errors ect. --Matthewest •T•C•E• 05:20, 9 July 2008 (EDT)
  • Oppose: For the same basic reasons already stated by Saruuk. First, Patrollers need to be able to fact-check edits that have been made, not simply check the edits for grammar, spelling, and formatting. After all, the purpose of the site is to provide information, not just be a collection of well-written sentences. Fact-checking, answering questions, and generally providing accurate information is the most difficult part of a patroller's job. Prospective patrollers need to have shown that they understand the site's quality standards: their edits should contain accurate information and they should have shown that they are able to do fact-checking (and that they realize when they are unable to fact-check an edit and therefore should leave it for someone else to fact-check). You have not demonstrated these points, and scanning your last two months of edits I cannot find any examples of edits that add substantial factual content. Secondly, a prospective patroller's edits need to be of sufficient quality that other patrollers can trust the candidate's edits without any need for followup. Reviewing your recent edits shows that a substantial fraction of your edits have required followup or even been undone by patrollers. --NepheleTalk 19:05, 9 July 2008 (EDT)
  • Oppose: For pretty much the same reasons as stated by Nephele and Saruuk, the edits you've made have not been of substantial nature. Further, one main part of being a Patroller is that we have to be able to trust each others edits, and I can't say I trust yours without checking. Concentrate on making edits that improve the site, instead of worrying about edit-counts and titles. --Benould•T•C 19:30, 9 July 2008 (EDT)
  • Oppose: The fact that your nomination contains a couple of minor grammatical errors ("American" and "British" should be capitalized) and spelling mistakes ("alot" should be "a lot", "payed" should be "paid"), and that your response to Saruuk contains a spelling mistake ("ect." instead of "etc.") tell me that you're not ready at this time. --Robin Hood (Talk • E-mail • Contribs) 18:19, 10 July 2008 (EDT)
  • Oppose: Besides echoing the thoughts of the above, I'd like to say that your list of strengths shows you really don't know the duties of being a patroller. Stuff like "Adding Links, Creating redirects to pages, Using Templates, Adding 'Stub' or 'Needs Image' tags where necessary, and Undoing edits" aren't really strengths, they're basic tasks. Any long term editor should know how to do those things or know how to find out. --Ratwar 19:11, 10 July 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Completed Nominations

Completed nominations can be viewed on this page.

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