Tardis:User rights nominations

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 * Why do you oppose this nomination?

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Admins
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Nominations:

Shambala108
'''Nominating user: CzechOut 21:28, April 4, 2013 (UTC) I am pleased to place Shambala108's name before you in nomination for the position of administrator.

Shambala's work on the site has been extraordinary. She's tackled a number of big projects with the janitorial, how-can-I-complete-this-menial-task-that-makes-things-better-for-other-users mindset of an administrator, improving areas of the wiki that have gone too long unattended.

Editing foci
She has clear areas of interest which are complimentary to those of other admin. In the same way that user:Tangerineduel has a breadth of knowledge of the books of the 1990s, Revanvolatrelundar is steeped in Eighth Doctor minutiae, and maybe I have a focus on technical issues, Shambala seems poised to be our resident short story expert. We badly need this. It is a positive recommendation that she has put a boatload of work into improving a particular area of the wiki.

Why does it matter that she has a passion about short stories? Because she's consistently spotting things that nobody else has really brought to this wiki or any other online DW resource. Want an example? Go to Talk:Hamburg. Finding that kind of detail is what separates this wiki from any other.

She's also one of the few editors to take up the important cause of orphaned pages and Special:UncategorizedPages, helping to keep both maintenance lists manageably under 100 members.

Writing style
Efficient, grammatically accurate. Hews closely to the text of narratives. Not especially prone to inject personal opinion or speculation into her work.

Use of wiki markup
Shambala's level of knowledge about wiki markup is a bit difficult to assess, since she's never tackled the template namespace at all. But it's clear she has a working knowledge of the basics of markup, and that she cares about the way it's presented to other users.

Here's a great example from one of her few edits outside the main namespace. She goes to add some more material to a discontinuity discussion and she not only adds a lot of points, but she goes back and takes the time to make sure that all the bullets on the page have exactly one space between the asterisk and the first letter of the point being made. Is it necessary? No—the software will parse it the same either way. But it shows that she cares about the way the base code looks. This is very important to helping new users understand how wiki markup works, and it's surely the mark of a good admin. Neatness, in other words, counts.

Examples of interaction with other users
Talk:Totem (short story) and Talk:Tenth Doctor are clear examples of her ability to navigate the choppy waters of an ocean of user discontent. She's pretty much always brief, focused on the merits of the discussion and clear. Even when people are literally shouting at her that she's an idiot.

If I had to labour under Madame Vastra's "one-word rule" to describe her communicative abilities, it'd be classy.

Policies she'll likely enforce

 * T:NO RW See Talk:Washington Dulles International Airport, Talk:Marcel Proust, Talk:Neanderthal and, well, a heck of a lot of contributions to the talk namespace. She knows the right kind of questions to ask when it comes to determining the line between the DWU and real world.
 * T:VS See Talk:Edwardian era for a start.
 * T:CAST. Man, she is on this one like Elvis on peanut butter.  Just to pick a few, see Talk:Last of the Time Lords (TV story), Talk:Gridlock (TV story), Talk:Mindwarp (TV story)

Stats

 * First edit: 12 years, 358 days ago
 * Edit count:, by Special:EditCount reckoning; slightly more by Wikia's "silly tally".
 * Current rank: 9th, but 8th human, in terms of number of edits in the main namespace
 * Edits in main per day: 39—which puts her only behind CzechBot. So she's the most prolific human editor (in the main namespace) on the site.  Yes, faster even than Doug86's 32 edits/day.
 * Average size last 25 edits: 9898 bytes (Doug86: 1420; Tangerineduel: 5543; CzechOut: 1235)
 * Tardis loyalty: 93.5% of all Wikia contributions have been made here at Tardis
 * Namespace spread: 98% of her edits are in main with about 1% of edits in discussion areas. Though we would typically like to see a higher percentage of discussion edits from a prospective editor, the quality and clarity of her discussion points is phenomenal.  She has a way of engaging in debates that is simple, elegant and worthy of emulation.  She sticks to the facts, makes her points with clarity and, unlike me, brevity, and then goes on about her business.  We would do wrong to mistake her discussion page edit count for a measure of her impact upon discussions.
 * Namespace dabblings: She has found and made a few edits in the Howling and Theory namespaces.
 * Namespace deficiencies: Unusually, she has never uploaded a single bit of media, and she's given only the most cursory of glances to the category namespace. Still, these weaknesses are counterbalanced by existing admin who are more interested in them.  I have to say that if I have one reservation about her candidacy it's that she's got zero edits in the template namespace.  I have no idea what her level of comfort is with more advanced code.  Given her other strengths, it's not enough to bar her candidacy.  But, if confirmed, she should at least attain enough knowledge of code to make simple tables, like  or.

Support

 * Please outline the reasons you support this nomination below:


 * CzechOut 21:36, April 4, 2013 (UTC), for reasons stated in the nomination.
 * SmallerOnTheOutside 22:06, April 4, 2013 (UTC). She has shown dedication to the wiki, and has been doing administrative duties since far before I joined.
 * Bubblecamera 22:36, April 4, 2013 (UTC) She always seems to be on top of things. I constantly notice that she has been making helpful edits and improving the site.
 * Doug86, 00:55, April 5, 2013 (UTC), for reasons stated in the nomination.
 * Mini-mitch 12:30, April 5, 2013 (UTC) For the same reasons a Doug: the reasons stated in the nomination.
 * --Revan\Talk 12:05, April 5, 2013 (UTC) For the reasons stated in the nomination, especially her work on the short stories. I've heavily edited the Eighth Doctor ones (as also stated in the nomination), but that niche in DW knowledge is perfect for a new admin.
 * Memnarc ☎  02:03, April 8, 2013 (UTC) For the reasons stated above and because of all the most active users on the wikia who are not currently admins (myself included) she seems to me to be the most dedicated to making a broad range of improvements on the wikia. I think with some more access, she could do an even better job than she has thus far.
 * Tangerineduel / talk 15:38, April 10, 2013 (UTC) I also support the nomination for CzechOut's stated reasons above. Any deficiencies CzechOut has highlighted can be covered by other admin and other editors. Shambala has mentioned also on my talk page a willingness to upload images, so I believe it's not a never equation just a process of learning. Similarly template editing is something she hasn't needed to do, a reasonable response as most of our templates that we use day-to-day have been created and edited to the where they are now some time ago. Shambala's work throughout the short story pages has been of excellent quality and her communications with other users has remained calm and reasoned.
 * Aliascummins gave a kudos to the forum thread that announced this nomination. So that's either a vote for the candidate or an approval of the process by which we select our admin.   23:05: Thu 11 Apr 2013

Oppose

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Neutral

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Comments and concerns

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Bureaucrats
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Nominations: