LOTR:Requests for adminship

Procedure[]

Anyone wishing to become an administrator of The One Wiki to Rule Them All may edit this page and "lobby" active contributors or even all non-anonymous contributors, including those who haven't been obviously active recently.

See LOTR:Requests for adminship/successful nominations for successful nominations, LOTR:Requests for adminship/unsuccessful nominations for unsuccessful nominations, and here for page history.

Nominations for adminship[]

Recommended format:

link to candidate's Contributions page: Support:; Unsure:; Opposition:

User:Bitterhand - Has shown the biggest effort for the most consecutive years in different facets of the wiki, of any non-admin I've seen. Mastered the wiki's complicated policies from the get-go; has been an exceptional communicator with admins and others since; has an enormous role in the long-term corrective sweeping of the wiki. He's proven his dependability & readiness to get to work in all areas. HiddenVale - TalkPage: August 19, 2021

Support User:Bitterhand's Bureaucrat nomination and have granted it.DarkLantern (talk) 15:32, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

User:HiddenVale - The most regular, the other most interested in the community here, long enough here, the other most knowledgeable, and seems to understand the rules. I vote Yes--DarkLantern (talk): February 28, 2013 (UTC)

I'm going to be honest, I'm not acquainted with Hidden's work (though I've explored some of his contribs) nor his personality. But as have I been a lot of time away and know little of the changes that this went through, I'm not going to take that in consideration, I will trust DarkLantern with this. Then again, DarkLantern really needs some administrative help and so I hereby support your nomination and hope you'll do us fair with the powers you'll be granted if this succeeds. Please do not prove me nor DL wrong ;). Winterz (talk) 04:36, March 2, 2013 (UTC)

Success! HiddenVale is now one of the sysops here!--DarkLantern (talk) 09:56, March 10, 2013 (UTC)

User:DarkLantern - over 7,000 edits; excellent candidate for being a bureaucrat, because we need more. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 22

48, November 14, 2010 (UTC)

-Strongly Supported by Winterz 23:41, November 14, 2010 (UTC)

Support: DarkLantern should have been a bureaucrat long ago.--Wyvern Rex. 12:55, November 15, 2010 (UTC)

I agree. Thanks for the recommendation and support.--DarkLantern 13:09, November 15, 2010 (UTC)

DONE. And I can't undo it. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 13:16, November 15, 2010 (UTC)

User:Fandyllic

3378 edits, 2022 posts and "Long-time wiki user". Excellent recent work and needs to be able to rename pages. --- Robin Patterson (Talk) 12:08, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Support:--- Robin Patterson (Talk) 12:08, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Unsure:

Opposition: Robin's remarks are true, and I will vouch that Fandyllic is a commendable editor, being a stickler for consistency and tedious clarity - which is vital here - but, on the Discussion Posts side of the Wiki, the last years have born considerably many cases of sour conduct from Fandyllic with quite a range of other users. If one would like to see proof, I can seek and gather it. Such cases are not the majority of Fandyllic's comments or discussion-activity, but, it must be noted that no other regular individual user of the Discussion Posts has ever shown this pattern. Be assured that when a person is truly friendly, and a good example of keeping mature conduct with strangers on the internet, an examination of their Discussion Post activity from over two years will show it. Those qualities are a factor (of course not the only factor) in estimating one's fitness to bear large responsibility over a multifaceted, communal website such as this. HiddenVale - TalkPage 02:03, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Fandyllic's contributions on the wiki side of things have indeed been of notable value, and should indeed be commended. This opinion does not downplay said achievement. However, as HiddenVale has indicated, I've witnessed that a significant portion of Fandyllic's interactions with other users in the discussion forum has been marked by an argumentative spirit and has, intentionally or not, instigated many exchanges with other users requiring admin intervention. Solely for the reason that a critical characteristic of an administrator is that of solving these kinds of matters, not creating them, I am likewise in opposition to adminship. If Fandyllic takes our constructive feedback and shows an enduring desire to be understanding of other users instead of putting down, then my stance could change. - Bitterhand (talk) 02:48, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Comment: TBH, I don't want to be an admin here. I get enough hate from other users on Discussions as it is and as big a fan of Tolkien as I am, even if I became and admin, some users would immediately call for my ouster. I wouldn't mind being a Content or Discussions moderator (not sure why, but this wiki has neither), though.; I'm honored to be nominated, despite the opposition (which I expected). I don't plan on changing my behavior on Discussions much as I can't stand the BS from many of its commenters who largely don't contribute to the wiki side. -- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 7 Jan 2025 11:31 AM Pacific

Requests by users[]

StingString[]

Hello! After being an avid member on this wiki for over almost a year (I first joined on June 11, 2023 on the Horizon wiki, and made my first edit here on August 5, 2023), I would like to become and Administrator of the One Wiki.

Why I want to be an Admin[]

When I first joined this wiki, it blew me away that the edits that I made could have a lasting impact on the internet itself; and if I googled the page I would be able to see my own edits, as anyone with a computer or just a simple web-browser could. It shocked me even more to see the legendary amount of edits that contributors like HiddenVale, DarkLantern, and Drour1234 had made in their time; that anyone could have those sheer number of edits was awe-inspiring to me. Getting there myself seemed like an insurmountable mountain of incredible achivement; but I have never been one to back down from a challenge. From that day forth I have devoted countless hours to this obsession, and I have not the slightest intention of stopping. I believe that becoming an admin will be the next cliff scaled on this towering mountain.

Why I should be an Admin[]

From the beginning, I have aspired to become an admin, and even a Bureaucrat (that last one may take some time); and as such, I have waited for nigh a year, accumulating Tolkien-related knowledge and adding more edits (and experience) to my wealth. I have (at the time of writing this essay) 1,223 edits on this wiki, which is more that nearly any current non-administrator on this wiki, and that alone should be enough to persuade you to vote for my adminship; as well as the fact that I have created fifty-two pages and over four categories within a year (imagine what I could do in two with Admin privileges!); but I have more than just edits under my belt.

I currently have in my possession The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, The Fall of Gondolin, The Atlas of Middle-earth, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, the complete collection of The History of Middle-earth, Unfinished Tales, and A Gateway to Sindarin; and I will be expecting The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fall of Númenor, The Nature of Middle-earth, and Tales from the Perilous Realm within a week. As any reader can plainly see, I have a vast wealth of knowledge on most things Tolkien related, more than most users on this wiki.

I also have a fair amount of experience after being on this wiki for a year, and I have grown to be a good coder, and very good at navigating Fandom's interface. I am also a prolific proofreader and writer, and close to an expert on the Sindarin language and etymology, courtesy of A Gateway to Sindarin. I'm fairly involved on the discussion boards, which is a very important part of the wiki that most high-rate editors don't seem to be too involved in. I have a good understanding of the current polices; in fact, so good that I have noticed several holes and various loopholes that I could only fix if I become an Admin. For the past month or two, I've been high on the weekly contributors list, ranking either first or second by the end of the week; last week alone I had almost one-hundred-forty edits! I am a speedy learner, and, like everyone, I make mistakes; but they are few and far between. To add to my weighty list of accomplishments, I have added a pronunciation section to most articles that have names that are difficult to pronounce, or have new combinations of letters that most don't know, such as Maedhros (with ae and dh).

If you consider all that I have said in my best effort to sway you to my side, you will discover that I am a well-rounded and well-known editor with a deep commitment to this renowned wiki. If you look at my essay, and you decide that my feats are not sufficient enough to be an admin, - for whatever reason - I will not give up, and instead keep striving to make myself better.

StingString (talk) 17:50, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

First of all, shout-out for being a positive presence here! You've indeed helped to improve many things here. I do want to note though that quantity of edits does not, in and of itself, signify anything but just that - so while a common characteristic of administrators will be a high edit count, that is merely a byproduct of the truly important metric: continuing and faithful consistency. All of the current administrators demonstrated this over multiple years, which proved that each of us had the skill and fortitude to be a long-term upholder of the wiki. Since you have been a member of the community for less than a year, I say not yet, though as DarkLantern commented for the requestor below, I urge you not to take this as a personal rejection. In fact, I vote yes to giving giving you content moderator or rollback rights now, if you are interested. At any rate, please continue your good work! - Bitterhand (talk) 23:53, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind shout-out, and I do very much wish to have the CM and Rollback rights, if the other admins feel so inclined as to vote yes as well; I would relish the (slight) increase in responsibilities, as well as the overall increase in accessible articles to edit.

StingString (talk) 15:10, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Support[]

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Opposition[]

Oppose: Lots of contributions, but the quality is not consistently high. Also, definitely known to put random misinformation into Discussions (not sure why). It would be nice to know a ballpark of how many years of contributions make a good candidate, but I'm guessing it is over 2 years. Revisit after that, I guess. Personally, I'm skeptical of self-nominations. -- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 12 Jan 2025 12:39 PM Pacific

Result[]

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ArrestoMomentum[]

Hello everyone, my name's Liam (or ArrestoMomentum) and today I am applying for adminship (or maybe Content Moderator if adminship is deemed out of the question, as those are the main rights that I would benefit from) on The One Wiki to Rule Them All.

So as some of you may know, I have been here at the Wiki for a while now and I have more than four hundred edits on my account, as well as a few thousand on my bot account. I am fully aware that a month at a Wiki does not seem nearly long enough to become an admin, but I would like to provide you with a few reasons why I would like to become one:

Currently, there are only two active admins on the Wiki, which is not nearly enough for an encyclopedia of our size. I believe that we need another admin to ease the ever-growing workload off of our other two amazing admins. But why should I be an admin? How can I be trusted after only a mere month? Well, I am already a very established user on other Wikis such as the Harry Potter Wiki, and I have not been temporarily banned for anything in all my time on Wikia. I pride myself in the fact that I do not get involved in conflicts and edit wars, as I believe that all Wikis are a work in progress, and we must work together to make them the best we can.

Although my knowledge of Lord of the Rings is not as great as I would like, I am learning fast, and am also particularly familiar with conventions across Wikia such as policies and proper editing technique (not to mention I know a bit when it comes to coding).

I mean, I haven't caused any trouble while I have been here, and have been high up on the weekly contributors since joining. I really enjoy the small community that we have here, but I want to work hard to grow it further, and make this Wiki one of the best out there.

So now that all of that is out of the way, I'd like to actually address why me being an admin would be useful:

First of all, I often find small things while browsing the Wiki which only admins can fix, and end up just leaving them because it would be such a tedious process to message an admin, wait for a reply, then finally have it fixed. If I was an admin, I feel as though I would be able to contribute a lot more to the Wiki; especially considering that I would have more power over my bot account, meaning that I would be more efficient with that too.

Secondly, I live in New Zealand, so the timezone is quite different to that of a few of our other admins, meaning that I could easily supply help to those in a similar timezone to me, whereas it would be unfair on our other admins to make them stay past their hours to help out those who are awake at different times.

Another reason for me requesting adminship is that I would like to be able to make use of the Content Moderator rights, such as managing files (names) which are particularly messy on this Wiki at the moment (something I would love to be able to fix up to make the Wiki a more professional looking place). I am sure that my commitment to the Wiki would also drastically increase with a new responsibility, as that is the kind of person that I am.

The list of reasons goes on, but I should probably leave it there. So hopefully I have convinced you to see past the fact that I have only been here for one month. I feel as though I am very trustworthy, and capable of making this Wiki an incredible place once more.

Here's to making the Wiki the best it can be,

Thank you all,

ArrestoMomentum | talk

Support[]

In the context of this particular Wiki's promotion history, I would agree that this all is rather early. Before proclaiming my mind (which actually is not affected by the previous statement), there are clarifications that need to be made. First - The amount of your bot's edits, just so you know, does not raise eligibility for the administering of a website, since the only required work to make those edits is giving your bot "your bidding". That you know. In fact, I'd go further to say that the same goes even if you carried out a clean-up spree of identical edits across many articles manually, because any Wiki editor could be given a formatting-improvement or template-removal task - even if they were unknowledgeable of what the Wiki was about. But - the improvement you carried out with removing TGLinks before you created your bot obviously untrivializes your commitment to the Wiki's improvement, so my point doesn't weigh against the affirmative. Second - In addressal to your saying that a mere twosome of active Administrators is not nearly enough for an encyclopedia of our size, please clarify what is relevant about "of our size", concerning the amount of Admins? No Wiki save for the very most rigid and expansive Wikis (e.g. Wowwiki and Wookiepedia, the two great W's) is without broad clean-up projects that need to be done, and many of those projects that exist here have long been worked on by myself, DarkLantern, PrinceOfErebor, and the third Administrator DarkChylde. If you're not referring to the presence of many clean-up projects, what do you mean that concerns the small number of Admins? Also, "Not nearly enough" would be a qualifier that you could add if you were present at One Wiki to Rule Them All for, say, just over a year at least. You in particular haven't quite seen enough. But in the end that's irrelevant to my stance.

Your point regarding timezones makes complete sense, mostly because I live in the States, and on Planet Hypothetical I'd be driven to give you whatever degree of promotion simply on the grounds of how positive everything you've said is. But in real reality, I support your being promoted. DarkLantern may choose whether it's to Adminship or to being a Content Moderator.

HiddenVale - TalkPage 20:20, August 7, 2016 (UTC)

Opposition[]

Not just yet after only one month of activity. Others were carefully reviewed after a longer period. Arrest's contributions have been very good and he or she's interest in the Wiki is good, but what the Wiki really needs is more regular writers not more authorities. In my opinion, a person that becomes an admin here must be more then just an organizer and coder but also a modest writer. I do not seek perfection just a well rounded admin. The person must be willing an able to write well and know about Tolkien Mythology or simply read from all the online sources about it and tackle the writing and rewriting issues here. Because recently, the total removal of the last remnants of the Tolkien Gateway's influences which HiddenVale began an I agreed is Wiki's current problem.

My vote is not right now. Bottomline, if Arrest begins rewriting the current rewriting projects and others, because not all are listed there over the next periods of him or her's free time then I probably would vote a solid Yes almost immediately and grant the adminship. Plus, Darkchylde has not returned yet and she must be heard. Arrest would probably qualify now or soon for Rollback rights. I urge Arrest not to take this as a personal rejection but as a incentive to keep doing more to solve the Wiki's problems.--DarkLantern (talk) 00:59, August 8, 2016 (UTC)

Result[]

Interim result: no edits since August 2016. --- Robin Patterson (Talk) 00:23, 17 October 2024 (UTC)