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Please add your request for custodianship (or other staff positions) here. Include a short summary of why you think you should be given the privileges and please refer to your involvement in other Wikimedia projects. If you have sysop/bureaucrat status at a sister project, please indicate so as well.

In a wiki, trust arises from good editing of webpages and "good editing" is what advances the project. If you have a record of good editing then you are likely to be trusted and be granted the power to protect pages from vandalism and block vandals and delete useless pages. Having those powers really just means you have to do more work -dull and boring work- for the community.

All candidates should please place their requests or nominations on a subpage and transclude it here.

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[edit] Requests and Nominations for Probationary Custodianship

Notes:

  1. Registered users can both request custodianship, or be nominated for it by others. Candidates that have not accepted the nomination and secured a mentor within one week are archived.
  2. See MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook for some details on what options are available for custodians.
  3. Candidates can request a mentor from those listed at Wikiversity:List of custodian mentors; the requested mentor must agree.
  4. Candidates: please respond to any questions from the community about your wiki editing and wiki participation.

[edit] Terra (talk | email | contribs | stats)

User:Imperial I've been contacted here on my Wikipedia talkpage, about possible mentorship for being a custodian, I have been involved in helping out with maintenance work on wikiversity, however though I'm starting to become active on wikiversity, I'll help out with maintenance work and Custodian work as well if possible, I have however placed a request for my Imperial name to be changed to Terra on Changing Username page, so that users on Wikipedia will find it easy to contact me and know that I have a user here. Terra What do you want? 19:08, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

  • I would be honored to mentor Terra. Bureaucrats: please change the name first (Imperial --> Terra). Terra has an excellent record of service both here and on Wikipedia, and we will certainly benefit from having him/her as a custodian. --SB_Johnny | talk 20:23, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, oh and by the way I'm Male just so that you know. Terra What do you want? 20:48, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
My username has been officially changed, I accept the mentorship for custodianship, just so that you know I'm occasionally semi-active on most wiki-sites. Terra What do you want? 21:41, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
No problem. I'll be away from the keyboard until tomorrow, but if you want to "get to work" and have questions, there's plenty of help to be found on #wikiversity-en, our IRC channel :). --SB_Johnny | talk 23:10, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Hi Terra. I like people who work hard on maintenance and vandal-fighting, and I see a lot of skilled and hard-working edits at WP in your name. However I also see you've only been using the name Terra since January of this year (am I correct) and you don't seem to have admin status on WP (I was surprised). I assume you have a number of accounts for your editing, as you look like a seasoned editor. It would be good if you could use your request for custodianship to introduce yourself more thoroughly to us, as many of us don't know you yet. Thank you! --McCormack 05:45, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
On WP, I originally began editing via my alternate user Yun-Yuuzhan. However though for some reason I couldn't log onto the username or hadn't specified an e-mail address which I've thought I had done, and had to request to be merged with the username which became known as Yun-Yuuzhan (lost password) ever since then I decided to be renamed to Terra, at first I become good with maintenance work on WP by fixing minor error's just so I know what to do with the site, then after that I became involved with Vandal Fighting and removed vandalism and warning the user not to do it again, with me being a Vandal Fighter it became my area of expertise. Up until recently I've begun exploring other things on WP, and have begun adding missing information on articles like infoboxes and adding certain information which was mentioned in the article, also I've been exploring new pages being uploaded and marking them as being patrolled or placing the deletion tag if it doesn't meet the criteria, however though if the page itself had writing on which sounds like it meets the criteria I would leave the article alone, if allowed I'll accept the mentorship and hope I can help out here a lot, as I helped on WP. Terra What do you want? 08:48, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
As of this time I do not support Terra as a custodian. Mostly because I think section 56 can be accomplished other ways and "what do you want". --Remi 19:35, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
If that's troubling you then I'll change the signature, and have Section 56 erased if that's what you want me to do or you can freely change that subpage I won't mind any changes you make on section 56 any changes are welcome. Terra talk page 19:59, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello Terra, I have added some comments on Section 56's talk page. Perhaps you could have a look ? ----Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 11:50, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm also having a bit of a hard time fully supporting this candidacy at this particular point in the users history on Wikiversity. I've always thought that continual emphasis on fighting vandalism is the wrong approach to take and that candidacy needs be about more than just this. In my brief time as a Custodian i've seen very little vandalism round here and have in fact myself reverted very little and blocked nobody. Custodianship, from my perspective, has been much more about being dedicated to familiarizing and reflecting on what Wikiversity is and might be about so that new users can be welcomed and guided in the right directions, projects can be slotted/renamed into more appropriate categories/sections and that people might approach custodians if they need advice or to ask specific questions about policy or direction. So from my perspective custodianship is not just about the tools at all and i think I argued this as much on my own candidacy. At this point I'm not sure that Terra has enough experience around here to participate fully in the kind of discussions that custodians need to wade into but he should keep at it and enter into the community a bit more before making the request. Countrymike 22:52, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
To be honest part of me doesn't want to be an Admin yet, mainly because I'm still new to this site, however though I'll leave the custodianship request for now until I know more about this site, as with vandalism before I logged on to write this. A comment was made via here which was vandalism, and also I don't want any problems with user's so I'll wait until I gain more experience and hope I'll gain the editor's trust on this site. Terra Welcome to my talkpage 07:49, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm beginning to really strongly support this candidacy, because one of the good things about a candidate custodian is that they shouldn't want the status too badly and should be show signs of willingness to step down if criticised. Anyway, at the current point of time I believe the mentorship thing has already been decided and is going ahead just as fast as Terra's group status can be modified. Terra: please feel warmly encouraged. --McCormack 09:42, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reminder and reality check

One of the main reasons we use mentorship rather than elections here is to shelter applicants from the biting and unneccessary confrontations of the sort seen above. He has accepted me as a mentor, and I have accepted him as a "mentee" (if that's a word). Unless someone sees any evidence that I may have missed indicating that this user would do harm to the project with the sysop tools, it's really no-one's business at this point except his, mine, and anyone else who wants to co-mentor and help me show him the ropes. There will be ample opportunity a month from now to discuss his candidacy for "full custodianship" after the probationary period comes to an end (and assuming I recommend him for this at the end of that period). I have requested that his usergroup be changed: please just let the mentorship process proceed as it should, and hold your critiques for later (when we have a record to critique). --SB_Johnny | talk 10:15, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Done sebmol ? 10:45, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
SB: I withdraw what looked like a vote on whether this candidate is worthy or not at this point; people deserve the full mentorship experience before questions should begin. This is part of the process that we seem to have forgotten lately. So Terra please continue your mentorship and I hope to see you around; don't forget us on IRC (#wikiversity-en) as well - its a good place to talk things over. Countrymike 20:24, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I did not mean to betray the spirit of the custodianship process. Hopefully, this will not discourage boldness. --Remi 06:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gbaor (talk | email | contribs | stats)

I would like to nominate User:Gbaor for probationary custodian. SB_Johnny and myself have been encouraging Gbaor to stand for custodian since mid-March ([1]). My reasons for proposing him: (1) He has been a consistently "very active" editor since last November (see Wikiversity:Participants), averaging a steady 200 edits or so per month; (2) his editing interests are very strongly administrative (e.g. categorising, repairing, moving); (3) his maintenance editing style strongly complements rather than overlaps the styles of some others - e.g. he has very usefully made small but necessary improvements to (brash?) edits by myself and Jtneill - he has an eye for the detail, more like Remi; (4) recently his contributions to debate about Wikiversity development show a particular dedication to being impartial and positive to all sides involved - this edit was one I especially liked; (5) he doesn't have an excessive desire for sysop-status - he's needed a little prompting. Overall, I see Gbaor as a careful, reliable editor with a good feel for consensus, community and organisation and a long-term commitment. --McCormack 06:14, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I have to be brief, while I haven't got much time to contribute on weekends. I accept the nomination for the custodianship status. I am in such a fortunate situation, that I can choose between two offers of menthorship from SB_Johnny and McCormack. Only one menthor should be assigned per probationary custodian however, so I choose McCormack. I edit usually from Monday to Friday during the day, so it is easier to communicate in real time with him (no time zone difference). The 26th May could be the starting date. --Gbaor 12:06, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Comments about nomination for probationary custodian

  • Note to bureaucrats: User:Gbaor has asked not to be given probationary status until 26th May at the earliest. Note to User:Gbaor: if you accept the nomination, please say so and select a mentor from those who have offered to mentor you. --McCormack 06:14, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Yes, I encourage Gbaor, he is a thorough editor, well-intentioned, easy to work with, eager to learn, transparent communicator, with technical know-how, etc. -- Jtneill - Talk 05:27, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Done --mikeu talk 12:17, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nominations for Full Custodianship

Candidates for full custodianship are listed here by their mentor after the one month probationary period. Do not add self-nominations to this section (use the section of this page Requests for Custodianship).


[edit] Nominations for CheckUser

Notes. Check user status is governed by Wikimedia Foundation policy. A candidate needs at least 25 votes in total, of which at least about 20 should be support. Following this, permission must be requested from the Wikimedia Foundation. Projects should normally have either 0, or 2 or more check users, but not 1.

[edit] Nominations for Bureaucratship

None at present.

[edit] See also

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