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Applications for adminship (RfA or AfA) is the process by which the Train Spotting World community decides who will become administrators (also known as admins or sysops), who are users with access to additional technical features that aid in maintenance. A user either submits his/her own request for adminship (a self-nomination) or is nominated by another user. Please be familiar with the administrators' reading list and how-to guide, before submitting your request.

Adding a new request

To create a new RfA nomination (both self nominations and user nominations), please copy the code below and paste it under the Current nominations for adminship section below:

{{subst:RfA|username|''end date''|statement}}

You need to replace the username parameter with the username of the candidate, and the end date parameter with the ending date of voting, which is 5 days from when the candidate accepts the nomination.

Please read Trains:Adminship before nominating a user or yourself for Adminship to make sure you know what an Administrator does.

Candidates should consider admin tools as a way to help the project, and not as power.

Judging nominations

Please note that a candidates suitability for adminship should be judged on trustworthiness alone and not on quality of edits, edit counts or amount of activity etc. Please remmeber that adminship is voluntary hard work and not an award or recognition. It is also not a rank or a promotion in any way. It is simply a user who has been given a few extra tools so that the user can do the maintenance he has volunteered to do.

About RfA

Please see Trains:Adminship for information about adminship and the RfA process.

Archived nominations

Archive 1

Current nominations for adminship

Current time is 16:31:42, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

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

Closing it as a pass. Voting time has passed (Should have been closed last week!) but I was holding off as I was the nominator!

Dalek X

Ended on 1/04/08

I nominate Dalek X as I believe he is a trustworthy user and also has knowledge and frequent editing in the Thomas and FanFic areas. He has also been a massive help with the Transport Journal. BG7 20:26, 27 March 2008 (UTC) BG7 20:26, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Candidate's acceptance: I accept this nomination and will try to do my best if I become an Admin. --DalekX 20:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Optional Questions from TSW users

1. What do you think the best Admin tool is, as why?

One of the best tools is being able to cut in on people's talk pages. Mainly because, if a member is being rude to another member, or if someone has put up something that could possibly reveal their identity, you need to be able to stop this. In the first case, if people are arguing or having flame wars on talk pages, you need to be able to stop this and help resolve the situation in a calm and dignified manner. As for the other case, it is the responsibility of the Admins to protect their users. If someone were to put up something that could reveal their identity, an Admin has to be able to delete it so no pedphailia, stalkers, or anything like that could hack into their computer or find where they live, or any other such thing that could put the user at risk. --DalekX 20:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

2. What will you do if you recieve sysop rights?

I will correct the misinformation on many of the "Thomas" pages. I will build up the "Shining Time Station" pages and make them bigger. And I will also branch out into the main parts of Train Spotting World, and find as much information as I can about other types of trains and railways. --DalekX 20:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

3.Our community is small, and seems to be very FanFic oriented. May we have your thoughts, please, on how one might enlarge the community, and whetehr the FanFic elements can be made even more use of? I realise that this is not simply a question for an admin, but an admin somehow has a fiercer "loyalty" than a regular user.

This is avery fan-fic oriented community. If we were to, possibly, advertise ourselves more on different websites. I'm sure that there are a number of members who are members of other train related forums. If they were to mention us to some of their friends, then they may join our group. The Fan-fic elements can be useful. Most websites don't like fan-fiction, but this site encourages it. As long as all members know that we allow fan-fic, as long as it's in the fan-fic section, everything should be fine. --DalekX 21:19, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Support

1. BG7 20:28, 27 March 2008 (UTC) - as per nom
2. Tim Trent ^{Talk to me} A good candidate and a sensible nomination
3. EdJogg -- as per TT, but DalekX does need to take much more care about correct spelling. Even within this nomination section there are numerous typos. While this is not a major issue on talk/discussion pages, within article space it creates extra work for other editors. Nevertheless, having someone on board who cares about the 'Thomas' and Railway Series articles must be a good move.

Neutral

Oppose

Comments

In answer to your questions:

While they are both good answers - any user is allowed to do this. Which of the Rollback/Delete/Protect/Block etc features will you find useful?

I think I'll find most of the useful. The delete function: I know that anyone can add or delete anything as long as they are logged in, but there is a possiblibty that something will turn up that can only be deleted by an Admin. Protect & Block: I think those two kind of go together. You need to be able to protect people's information and to block it so nothing bad happens to taht person because they wrote something they shouldn't have. Aldo, there are some articles (namely the Thomas ones) that I feel need to be protected from vandalism. A lot of fictional items seems to appear on those pages. Though, I will say, it has died down with the creation of the Fan-Fic section.

Will you be proactive in vandal reversion? Member welcoming? Catting?

I have a system, similar to that of the other Wikis, with vandalism:

First Offense: Warning

Second Offense: Stronger Warning with Possible blocking from editing (depending on the size of this and the previous offense)

Third Offense: Blocking from Editing.

Fourth Offense: Longer blocking from editing

Fifth and all following Offenses: Longer blocking from editing with possiblity of account deletion (again, depending on the size of this and previous offenses)

As to Member Welcomings, I will try my hardest to find new members and welcome them to TSW. I would more than likely do what the other Admins have done with me and several others, and ask the new members what their interets in trains are. It's always good to know the people you're working with.

Catting? I would definately do work with categorising the images, articles, and basically anything else. I have started that a bit already with the reviews of Railway Series books I am writing.

BG7 20:47, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I have answered your questions within the spaces. You will find them italicised. --DalekX 14:19, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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The following discussion is preserved as an archive of an unsuccessful request for adminship. Please do not modify it.

C45Te

Closed a day early as unsuccessful. Please do not be discouraged by this. Using spell checker, especially when suggested to you in your nomination, would have been helpful, but a scan of your edits shows that they need more care and thought generally. We need care and thought in an admin. Please feel at liberty to reapply in a few months. Tim Trent ^{Talk to me} 13:13, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

I am a good controbruter on Thomas, I don't take any kindly to vandals, Im pleasent, Im kind and egar to be an adim C45Te 18:01, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

I stand for NO NONSENSE!

Candidate's acceptance:

Support

 Support conditional on work being done outside TtTE articles as well as in that space, plus use of a spelling checker, especially in the nomination! (though I appreciate that English may not be the candidate's first language) Tim Trent ^{Talk to me} 18:38, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Oppose

 Oppose I have altered my view because this user does not seem to understand, even after a very strong hint, above, the need to spell correctly and to proofread edits. Tim Trent ^{Talk to me} 15:00, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

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