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| − | Welcome to the '''Requests for Promotion''' page. If you wish to nominate a member, or yourself, to be a [[Project:Staff|Staff Member]], this is the place to apply. One of the [[Project:Staff#Bureaucrats|Bureaucrats]] will review your nomination and pronounce their judgement. You can also request access to [[User:Intangir Bot|Intangir Bot]], |
+ | Welcome to the '''Requests for Promotion''' page. If you wish to nominate a member, or yourself, to be a [[Project:Staff|Staff Member]], this is the place to apply. One of the [[Project:Staff#Bureaucrats|Bureaucrats]] will review your nomination and pronounce their judgement. You can also request access to [[User:Intangir Bot|Intangir Bot]], social media accounts, and [[Project:Discord|Discord moderator]] here. |
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==Nomination process== |
==Nomination process== |
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===How to nominate=== |
===How to nominate=== |
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| − | To nominate a user for promotion, add a level 3 header with their username and the proposed rank in parentheses (i.e. <nowiki>===Name (Rank)===</nowiki>)to the Nomination section below. The nominator should provide reasons for their nomination and sign with four tildes. Evocative poetry is encouraged but not mandatory. Other users can then review and comment on the user by adding bullet points below the initial nomination with '''Support''', '''Oppose''' or '''Comment'''. |
+ | To nominate a user for promotion, add a level 3 header with their username and the proposed rank in parentheses (i.e. <nowiki>===Name (Rank)===</nowiki>) to the Nomination section below. The nominator should provide reasons for their nomination and sign with four tildes. Self nominations are allowed, and, to be honest, are much easier for us as we need the consent of the candidate at some point anyway. Evocative poetry is encouraged but not mandatory. Other users can then review and comment on the user by adding bullet points below the initial nomination with '''Support''', '''Oppose''' or '''Comment'''. |
| − | A nomination will always be archived once a Bureaucrat has pronounced judgement, unless it is a blatant troll nomination. |
+ | A nomination will always be archived once a Bureaucrat has pronounced judgement, unless it is a blatant troll nomination. The archive is kept at [[/Closed]]. |
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+ | ===Guidelines=== |
| + | Staff applications are handled on a case by case basis, and we don't have a 100% consistent criteria for approval. However, there are several points that we look for: |
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| − | *Users must be editors on this wiki for a minimum of three months from their first edit before they can be nominated for any position. |
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| + | *'''Be bold!''' While we do scout for users to nominate every so often, we often leave a while between doing so. If you or someone you know is interested in a position, please come to us instead of waiting for us to come to you. |
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| − | *Users can only be nominated for the same position once every four months. |
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| + | *'''Have a good reason.''' Explain to us what the nominee does for the wiki (briefly, do remember that we can check your full contributions, so you don't have to tell us everything) and why them having the requested tools will be helpful. |
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| − | *A brief explanation of the user's deeds, why they deserve the position and how they would use the tools should be included in the initial nomination. |
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| + | *'''Be active.''' We don't promote users that haven't edited much recently. Being active for less than 3 months will raise some questions about if the nominee's sticking around long enough to make use of the position. |
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| − | *Qualities we look for in our Staff include: consistent activity, contribution to content (images, templates, mainspace), knowledge and/or participation in policy, trustworthiness and the ability to remain civil and cool-headed. |
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| + | *'''Contribute to the content areas of the site.''' We're most interested in users that help with the Main, File, Template, Etymology, Category and parts of Project namespaces, as these contribute to the main purpose of the site. Helping with other sections is nice, but not as essential. (There's also the MediaWiki namespace, but if you can edit that you're ''already'' an admin.) |
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| + | *'''Know the rules of the site.''' Members of staff expected to know enough about [[Project:Policies and guidelines|the policies]] to be able to enforce them... |
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| + | *'''...but also help shape them.''' We'd like it if nominees are involved in discussions about policy. |
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| + | *'''Remain calm under pressure.''' Look, we know, arguments do break out here, and all sides can get a little heated. But we're not interested in nominees that resort to insults or shouting at everyone when the slightest thing goes against them. |
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| + | Furthermore, there are a few circumstances where applications will be automatically rejected: |
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| − | ===Social media requirements=== |
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| + | *Users that have been blocked for a legitimate reason recently will not be considered. |
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| − | Our social media accounts include Facebook, Twitter, Github, Youtube and Twitch. Social media account access is judged on slightly different grounds. The guidelines are: |
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| + | *Users that have been rejected within the last 4 months will not be considered ''for the same position''. They're still allowed to be considered for other positions. |
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| + | *If you nominate someone else, and they do not accept the nomination, we'll automatically reject it. If they change their mind, we'll waive the 4 month cooldown. |
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| + | *We don't like having users skip a tier (Moderator->Administrator->Bureaucrat). If you want to make an application that does that, you will need a very good reason. |
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| + | Finally, there are a few instances where you don't need to use this page and can just ask an active Bureaucrat: |
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| − | *The user must have a presence on the Final Fantasy Wiki to a degree. |
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| + | *Moderators that went inactive before 2017 will not have full Moderator rights, and we can fix that for you. You can check if this affects you at [[Special:UserRights]], legacy mods will only have rollback, while current mods will have content-moderator. |
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| − | **For example, they have appeared in a [[Project:Let's Play|Let's Play]] episode, contribute frequently to discussions, or are a regular on [[Project:IRC|the IRC channel]]. |
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| + | **Note that due to content-moderator missing some legacy mod rights, you actually need both content-moderator and rollback. If you're a mod and are getting rate limited, we can fix that too. |
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| − | *The user is a trusted member of the Wiki. |
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| + | *Most former and inactive staff are not demoted. If you voluntarily removed your rights or Fandom staff removed them for security reasons we're willing to restore that for you. |
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| − | **These users represent the Wiki on other sites, and thus have a great deal of responsibility. |
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| + | *Administrators automatically have access to the wiki's YouTube, Twitch, and Twitter accounts, as well as access to [[User:Intangir Bot|Intangir Bot]], just join [[Project:Discord|the Discord server]] and we'll provide you the information needed to access them. If you're not an admin and want access to these things, or you want Bot rights for your own bot, you should ask here. |
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| + | *This page is for permanent promotions. Users requesting temporary rights should ask a Bureaucrat. If it's urgent, use the Discord server. |
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| − | Those who have been selected to host the Let's Play project will be given the [[Project:YouTube|YouTube]] password automatically, but must go through the nomination process for other accounts if they wish to access them. |
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| − | ===IRC requirements=== |
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| − | Promotion to Officer (IRC operator rights, +o up) can be requested on this page, but requires a two step process. Firstly, a user should register their interest here and garner support as usual. Qualities sought are experience with IRC commands, civility, and a cool head. Secondly, the user will have a short test administered by one of the Marshals on #wikia-finalfantasy. Promotion to Officer will be granted only if both components are passed. |
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| − | Promotions to Sergeant (+vt) do not require a formal request on this page, but can be added if the user wishes to create more work for Scathe. |
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==Nominations== |
==Nominations== |
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| − | ===BlueHighwind (Admin)=== |
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| − | It has been four months I nom'd myself for Admin. I figure, hey, let's try this again. This page should probably be used for more than awesome wiki fairy tales (can I have one of those, btw?). |
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| − | Next week I'll be attending PAX East with Wikia. I'm not 100% sure if I'm officially attending as a Final Fantasy Wiki rep, or just as a general representative of the Wikia Gaming community, it doesn't matter. As a Wikia Star, I have the highest level of access with Wikia execs, I am a part of Wikia discussions since they bother to fill us in on Wikia changes. I can even volunteer us for experiments, but I am uncomfortable doing so since I am just a Mod, not an Admin. This is more a practical thing, since I can represent us - to Square Enix panels and meetings - as the highest member of this community, which I have worked towards and helped build in a large variety of capacities for seven years now. |
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| − | I know I'm a painfully imperfect editor, I've been far too entertaining in my career here for my own good. So humbly, submitting myself entirely to the higher power of greater decision, I request this promotion. {{User:BlueHighwind/Sig}} 01:38, February 28, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support'''. Yes, I think promoting BlueH to admin might be a good idea due to the reasons he provided. Having an 'official' of sorts is definitely a good idea, although I have no idea of how being one can be beneficial for us for SE panels and meetings. And well, I think we can overlook his recent lack of contributions in the mainspace since he has this various Wikia Star privileges which I think are as beneficial as constant work on the level of the Wiki.—[[User:Kaimi|Kaimi]] <span style="font-size:0.75em">([[Special:Contributions/Kaimi|999,999 CP]]/[[User talk:Kaimi|5 TP]])</span> ∙ 01:46, February 28, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | *"I can even volunteer us for experiments" I wouldn't accept that even from an admin, ''the consensus maaaan''. Couldn't you just inform us first instead? If you were to accept the volunteership then we'd find out whatever it is anyway-- it wouldn't be a secret. The fact that you could even do that worries me more; you're not an admin so Wikia don't even have the excuse of "on some wikis admin makes decisions" for allowing you to volunteer us. [[Special:Contributions/2.102.229.173|2.102.229.173]] 02:22, February 28, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support'''. I'm sure it's no secret to anyone including the man himself I have some issues with BH's past behavior and attitude towards the Wiki. He is an infrequent editor; outside his FF12 work over the last few months, his most consistent period of activity was during Magicite Madness 3 in 2013. On the other hand, he is absolutely right in stating his status with Wikia as a Wikia Star, and an official representative of the Wiki would be valuable. There are also the matters of "do we need another Admin if he deserves it or not" and a discussion of our unofficial representative with Wikia being someone they appointed without any input on our part, but those are debates for another time. All things considered, if BH is behaving himself enough these days and has enough influence and recognition for Wikia to take notice, I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say go ahead and promote him. [[User:Drake Clawfang|Drake Clawfang]] ([[User talk:Drake Clawfang|talk]]) 03:15, February 28, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support'''. I supported it last time, my position hasn't changed. {{User:Kuja_FFIX/sig}} 09:57, February 28, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | Of course there would be discussions first, JBed. {{User:BlueHighwind/Sig}} 02:41, February 28, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | :Then what does being an admin help? To make you ''feel'' better? To ''feel'' like you can discuss a new thing for the wiki, and ''feel'' like you can represent the FFWiki? You are already a staff member. :S [[Special:Contributions/2.102.229.173|2.102.229.173]] 03:15, February 28, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | ==Closed nominations== |
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| − | <div class="archive header">The following nominations have been closed. Please do not add to these.</div> |
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| − | ===[[User:Technobliterator|Technobliterator, the Poetry Punished]]=== |
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| − | <div class="archive"><div class="header">Judgement</div> |
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| − | <poem><span style=font-family:book antiqua">what the world wrought after spawning such life |
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| − | sometimes I wonder, sometimes I wonder |
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| − | but now I only have time to tell one such strife |
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| − | it was the old winter storm, the silent thunder |
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| − | made such by snow packed ears while frosted eyes |
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| − | glimmer as the purpled bordered sky breaks asunder |
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| − | covered in bread and beard, the man searched far off skies |
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| − | he threw his sight to smell the great cat's heat |
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| − | is it day or night or maybe time itself dies |
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| − | and yet no matter how the whirling winds may sleet |
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| − | and the windows may patter with stoney clicks |
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| − | scrivener’s blood must be thus harder for this feat |
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| − | he scratched and scribbled, pen swirling and swooping quick |
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| − | a single flake of snow careened on his ink |
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| − | a single spot at the end of lines like a tick. |
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| − | he, surprised, at this strange addition, went to think |
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| − | maybe writing is all that better this way |
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| − | with symbols that can help the reader create links? |
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| − | as he returned his quiver, the arrow in the melee |
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| − | his oafish limbs smudged and smeared certain words |
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| − | Into becoming larger than the rest that lay. |
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| − | Aghast at the error, things took a turn more absurd.</span></poem> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">The man stopped copying altogether in a fit of anger; he threw rhyming to the wayside, he broke line breaks suddenly stopped. He started to write how he spoke. Is that possible, he wonder, is that right or correct? Am I making a mistake to speak my mind and say what I mean in the way I speak? He looked at the flurry of the snow through the cracked window. And then he knew it was right.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">He sent the manuscript to his editor, where it was of course questioned and attacked from all fronts. When asked to defend himself, the man only replied, “I had felt conned into copying what I had before. What I have created, I think is better.” And, according to this definition, people referred to his new work as “pros” and the old work as “cons.” While the latter name has fallen out of favor, the first name remains with us to this day.</span> |
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| − | -I think I gave you something vaguely like you requested. Or something. Who knows? [[User:ScatheMote|<span style="color:midnightblue">'''Scathe'''</span>]][[User talk:ScatheMote|<span style="color:#778899">'''Mote'''</span>]] 04:06, February 9, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | <div class="archive collapsible collapsed"><div class="header">Discussion</div> |
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| − | *'''Nominating''' self for Facebook access. I use Facebook regularly and am on the wiki often so I can make frequent various updates and maybe make us as active as our twitter is. More importantly, LP updating. Since this is no admin nomination{{foot|which due to lots of reasons but mostly IRL stress, you won't see until I sort myself out '''massively'''}}, you won't see the frog poem I've been working on for some time just yet though, sorry to disappoint you but this is a plain nomination. :D--{{User:Technobliterator/Talk}} 02:02, January 30, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Comment''' - Techno, if you are self-admitting to having stress issues, isn't taking on any extra responsibility a bad idea, even if it's just Facebook? -- {{User:Some Color Mage/sig}} 02:06, January 30, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Comment''' - As best I know, those that currently are staff on the Facebook page are either those that began it, or those that were appointed because they were in charge of a project page on the Wiki and making them staff made it easier to post updates. Unless Techno intends to post news updates to the page (which I'd support, to be fair) or continue to post LP updates after the FF7 one ends, I'm not sure what benefit is gained from such a promotion. [[User:Drake Clawfang|Drake Clawfang]] ([[User talk:Drake Clawfang|talk]]) 02:31, January 30, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Comment''' - The plan was to post Shinra News (things which are less frequent nowadays) and future/current LP updates to the page, both when they go on YouTube, and when they are streamed on Twitch.--{{User:Technobliterator/Talk}} 07:18, January 30, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | ** In that case, I'm fine with this. '''Support'''. [[User:Drake Clawfang|Drake Clawfang]] ([[User talk:Drake Clawfang|talk]]) 15:26, January 30, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | **Still concerned about the stress comment, but if you're up to it, '''Support'''. -- {{User:Some Color Mage/sig}} 21:08, February 3, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support.''' I don't think you could ever have too many admins and timezone-wise Techno can always pick up stuff I forget about. Also he'll be able to write his own witty LP posts instead of me with my half arsed attempts to be funny ^_^ '''[[User:Tia-Lewise|<span style="color:#FF69B4">Tia-</span>]][[User talk:Tia-Lewise|<span style="color:#9932CC">Lew</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Tia-Lewise|<span style="color:#4B0082">ise</span>]]'''[[File:Rydia - Young battle.png|15px|link=Special:Editcount/Tia-Lewise]] 21:21, January 31, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Promoted''' as 3 pro and 0 con is good enough for me. Leaving this here for a bcrat to close. {{User:Catuse167/Templates/sig}} 00:29, February 9, 2015 (UTC) |
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| − | ===[[User:Some Color Mage|Some Color Mage, The Achromatic]]=== |
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| − | <div class="archive"><div class="header">Judgement</div> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">The Cat began to set over the sky, and the Penguin Ball began to rise. Five o' clock, the time of mystery and intrigue. The joyous daytime continues to smile while the morose nighttime starts to weep. However, the Night has not yet begun to wrest complete control over the Kingdom of Earth by banishing his brother Day to another land, only for the cycle to repeat in a few hours. At five o' clock, Day and Night can share the kingdom.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">It was during this that all the most wonderful things in the world happened. Love, magic, high-speed internet, all the rarities of the world appeared at this sacred time. During this time, the whole forest would get up and sing and dance. The trees would sway their leaves; with ardor, the arboreal ones danced alongside the harbor. Some hit mushrooms as percussion; others would rustle and whisper a melody. All who had seen it said there was no sight more beautiful than the oaken dancing.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">One day, a king heard that these trees would dance and sing and enjoy themselves in his kingdom. He fumed in anger at the very thought. "A group of trees enjoy themselves in <i>my</i> kingdom? Without swearing fealty to me? Will I, a great king, take such an insult?" The rhetorical question needed no answer, although the king decided to answer it. "No," he said solemnly. He moved his feet from the aide whom he was using as a footstool and motioned him to rise. "Go and find some brave knights who will threaten the forest into swearing fealty to me." The aide nodded and stumbled out quickly; this was the first time he had moved in seven months, as years of inbreeding had left the king unable to properly move his feet. One might think that the inbreeding may have impacted his judgement as well, but in fact his stupidly and brutishness came from when his mother accidentally dropped a lead plated omelet (a kingdom delicacy) on his head. His parents also died that day of a severe lead-related illness, and the trauma was too much for his poor mind to bear.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">But I digress. Three knights were collected. The first, Sir Palamon, was an oafish fellow. He could only grunt, a sound very similar to the sound that an old bearded yak makes when his feet are massaged by a gaggle of geese on Thursday. The second, Sir Charles, would spend hours waxing his mustache in order to make it as appealing as possible. Unfortunately, due to a batch of bad genes, his mustache ended up being a mixture of green, blue, and purple while his head had only three wispy hairs on it. The last knight, Sir Achromatic, was a veteran of the great Penguin War, in which he had lost an eye a well as his ability to see color.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">The three knights came to the dancing trees at precisely five o' clock. Palamon grunted loudly. The trees looked up, as it was Wednesday, and thus they did not expect that sound. There was a small bout of silence as the two parties stared each other down.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">"Treefellows," cried Sir Charles, "What have you! We come to ask but one favor; that you swear fealty to the, uh, ''great'' king of this land!" The trees looked shocked at this statement; however, as they, being trees, did not speak human languages, so they did not actually understand what Sir Charles had said. "If you do not swear fealty, you know that this means war!" screamed Sir Charles, his voice cracking at the most embarrassing possible moment. No response. "Well, uh, I guess this is war now." Sir Charles shrugged.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">And so there was war. Sir Charles rode in first alone, chopping up the confused and terrified trees. Sir Palamon, a great lover of violence, followed Charles into the fray, but he was stupid to realize what is going on. Sir Achromatic, having already been paid in advance and could not care enough to help, quietly slipped out. Charles and Palamon butchered and destroyed thousands and thousands of poor trees.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">One tree remained. He was huge and older than the kingdom itself, but it only took one swing from each to fell him. However, these swings was both of their last, as the tree fell upon both of them and crushed them.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">The king saw the entire forest felled and was giddy with joy and bloodlust. He put on a jousting match to satisfy this lust, a tradition that would continue for generations to come. Meanwhile, the corpse of the last tree began to groan strangely. Suddenly, a strange four legged animal rose from the center of its trunk. Men would call this animal and its descendants the "Dogwood," which would be shorted to just "Dog" as people got lazier, which is generally true of successive generations. Its noises were the last remnants of the trees' language, and so men called it the "Bark."</span> |
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| − | -Congrats on getting something that you already had anyway! [[User:ScatheMote|<span style="color:midnightblue">'''Scathe'''</span>]][[User talk:ScatheMote|<span style="color:#778899">'''Mote'''</span>]] 22:49, December 10, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *This one's just a formality, as my op rights have already been reinstated, but Yuan says I still need to apply through RfS and get a Scathe Judgment anyway. So '''Belatedly Nominating''' myself. My qualifications, as demonstrated while getting my rights reinstated, is knowing more about how to ban someone than Technobliterator does. -- {{User:Some Color Mage/sig}} 12:03, December 10, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | **'''Oppose''', knowing more about banning than me clearly doesn't prove any value.--{{User:Technobliterator/Talk}} 12:06, December 10, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | ***'''Comment:''' 1v1 me m8 i'll rek u -- {{User:Some Color Mage/sig}} 12:10, December 10, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support''': He only flubbed the quieting part, and why quiet when kickbanning is an option? {{User:Jimcloud/Sig}} 18:12, December 10, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | **Indeed, I submit a '''formal request from Marshal Kiracieux to Dear Leader Scathus''' to acknowledge the recent promotion of '''SomeColorMage''' to '''Colonel''' and the promotions of '''Jimcloud''' and '''Technobliterator''' to '''Sergeant'''. {{User:Kuja_FFIX/sig}} 12:08, December 10, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | ===[[User:Mecorx|Mecorx, the Tentacle Toaster]]=== |
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| − | {{q|Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.|Apsley Cherry-Gerrard}} |
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| − | ;The End of an Empire, or, The Penguin Tragedy |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">In the depths of the Antarctic, a blistering blizzard sweeps across the colorless plains. In all directions, a white whipped whirlpool wounded the once virgin ears of a small black penguin, which the legends call Mecorx, all alone in the endless eddies of ice. Shivering, the penguin looked up at the great Cat in the sky. "I wish I was strong enough to fly to you," murmured the penguin. "I wish all my kind could fly, could soar in the air, feel the taste of air on my throat and on my wings. The sickly slime of water would never touch my down again, nor would the insults of all the other birds who exiled us to this cold waste because we could not fly." The penguin's eyes grew hazy as the world around her, and sense began to slip from her body. Three times she tried to move her leg, and three times she failed. Collapsed in a heap, her consciousness slipped away.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">The Cat in the sky, who had grown kinder and gentler in the millennia of isolation in the cold unfeeling realm of space, took pity on all penguinkind. He turned to his friend, the well frog, who could hear all of time and space because of the good acoustics in the well, and asked for another wish.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">"Since this wish is selfless, I will grant it to you," croaked the frog contently. "I will ''mod''ify these flightless birds to have greater powers than they did before. Let there be flight." With a single ribbit, it was done.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">The penguin awoke to find the storm to have passed. How did I live? Where did the storm go? She stood up to find that the world around her seemed more airy. Did it really happen? Can I fly? A single flap of her wings propelled her high into the sky. It happened so fast that even the Wind did not have time to catch, and He was left sputtering on the cold ground. Another flap, and the penguin fired herself faster than sound through the featureless air.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">The feeling of flying was ineffable, like the misery from a child lost or the joy of one regained. Even the very taste of flight was unlike anything one could describe. The clouds, whose tiny droplets kindly greeted the new arrival, the ground so far away, weeping for its child lost to the mischievous air. Eventually, the penguin returned to her colony. They all looked up and gasped at the one whom they thought lost now slipping through the air. She dove down and skimmed the earth, and her wicked grin told all. Soon thousands of black bodies began to rise into the air.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">Every day was now spent in the air. Sleeping, eating, talking, laughing. Why go to the dirty and unloving ground when you can float in the embrace of air? Never before had the penguins ever felt so much joy in their lives before this day, and for many days afterwards the same joy coursed through their wings.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">However, like all joy ever experienced, soon it turned to hatred and jealousy. Those other birds who mocked and threw us into a cold frigid hell still breathe and live. They sing and laugh and dance and ''fly'' just like us. But they have not suffered like us. They have not felt the feeling of their eggs freezing, their loved ones dragged away by the maw of a seal, the indignity and ignominy of Antarctica. So let them suffer too!</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">And suffer they did. When the Cat was covered in eclipse, all the birds, nursing their young, playing games, telling jokes, looked up. Suddenly, the dark mass swooped down. Can you blame the ducks for fleeing beneath the water? Can you blame the sparrow for hiding his young? Can you blame the gull for begging for forgiveness? Can you blame the robins for weeping? But none of them was spared.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">The Cat looked down on the great battle below, he was sad that his wish had gone so horribly awry. And so he began to softly Tweet, just like how the penguins Tweet. They all stopped their assault and looked up to the sky. They, one after the other, rushed up to reach to the top of the world. All climbed the ladder of the clouds. They fought and bit and attacked and clawed, and so many tumbled back to earth, never to fly again, their necks scarred and yellow, the only reminder of their former glory was the Imperial title. But the rest continued to claw and fight their way to the Cat in a great big ball.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">Eventually, they reached him. However, but this time, they were so tangled together that they could not separate themselves. They, like the great Cat, began to orbit around the earth, and this Penguin Mass is what we now call the moon. They spin around the earth in hopes to catch the Cat, but they never will. To this day, when the Penguin Mass passes in front of the Cat, every bird still cowers in fear from the memory of the great Empire.</span> |
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| − | -Time to forge your empire! Just make sure there are not ''too'' many causalities… [[User:ScatheMote|<span style="color:midnightblue">'''Scathe'''</span>]][[User talk:ScatheMote|<span style="color:#778899">'''Mote'''</span>]] 05:13, December 8, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Nominating''' Mecorx for mod per wiki discussions, due to her incredibly helpful translation work, being readily available to help translate Japanese text, and because she would benefit from the renaming rights for files/not leaving redirects. Has been discussed before.--{{User:Technobliterator/Talk}} 08:15, November 28, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support''', and before anyone says that mecorx doesn't have any use for moving images, when she and Xeno were working on the FFAB project, perhaps hundreds of images were moved, and she would always have to ask Xeno or someone on IRC to do it. Has read through most of the wiki's policies, and while not necessarily active in the forum, is a good coworker in userspace translation projects. {{User:Catuse167/Templates/sig}} 08:23, November 28, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support'''. I don't really have much to add, but she is certainly dedicated to her work and someone who has contact with non-English available games which we still cover in our scope and being a knowledgeable person in Japanese may only benefit her, in my opinion at least.—[[User:Kaimi|Kaimi]] <span style="font-size:0.75em">([[Special:Contributions/Kaimi|999,999 CP]]/[[User talk:Kaimi|5 TP]])</span> ∙ 08:34, November 28, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support''': why wouldn't I? An active user who helps multiple facets of the Wiki, and could most certainly be made a more effective user with the tools at hand. Additionally, she's been very helpful when I've made requests regarding her department of expertise (translations). {{User:Jimcloud/Sig}} 11:29, November 28, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support''': She always seems to have 6 trillion images for horrible iOS games to upload. This shows she needs the power. The fact she's working on horrible iOS games shows she's dedicated. In future when we have rightfully forgotten those games forever (because they're shovelware crap), mecorx's piles of images will remain here on this wiki, a testament to the futility of this thing we call the Final Fantasy Wiki. {{User:BlueHighwind/Sig}} 20:15, November 28, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support''' only if as I said before she can curb the occasional attitude on IRC. That aside everything else has been said above. '''[[User:Tia-Lewise|<span style="color:#FF69B4">Tia-</span>]][[User talk:Tia-Lewise|<span style="color:#9932CC">Lew</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Tia-Lewise|<span style="color:#4B0082">ise</span>]]'''[[File:Rydia - Young battle.png|15px|link=Special:Editcount/Tia-Lewise]] 12:25, December 2, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *Mecorx is pretty cool, does works on the wiki and isn't afraid of anything. [[User:Hexedmagica|Hexed]] 05:44, December 3, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support''': Meko-chan is a good user, a valuable asset to the Wiki, could use the extra tools, and what's more I like her. We need more snark. {{User:Kuja_FFIX/sig}} 06:03, December 3, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Comment:''' I'm sure I was going to support for an actual reason, but now I'm more interested in Scathe's great works. -- {{User:Some Color Mage/sig}} 08:47, December 3, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">Once, in a faraway place, in a faraway time, all the knights were preparing for the great jousting festival. This was a tournament that drew hundreds of competitors from all throughout the land. A sport of guts and of blood thereof, a true test of glory. And so, hundreds became tens, and tens became two. The two who won were called in front of the king in the main square for the final showdown.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">Almost immediately after they were called, the one named Sir Arcite arrived, the great and noble knight. He was clad in full armor from head to toe, and he gleamed in the setting sun. His horse was massive, its mane a veritable forest, its dim bitter eyes the recipient of hundreds of dead. "Greetings, fair knight," bellows the king. "Thou hast done well so far! Thou hast served thy kingdom with all these deeds."</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">Arcite replied softly. "Opponent?" His voice could curdle milk and pickle old women, and often his enemies would die after two words; today, luckily, as only one word was spoken, it only greyed the tips of the king's mustache and jiggled his bloated belly.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">"I am unsure where thy foe might be," replied the king meekly as the few remaining hairs fell off his head. "But certainly he shall be hence soon." He stares nervously at the knight, an act that would make the king nearsighted for the rest of his life. The foe does not arrive. The king turns to one of his peons. "Silly and ignoble peon whose feet certainly smell, where exactly is this doomed opponent?"</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">The peon attempted to stutter out an answer. "W-w-w-w-e-l-l-…" The king was having none of this. After a quick public execution, the next peon stepped up to the feet of the king. This one, having a firmer grasp of his tongue, replied, "Well, my king and lordship, I hear that that a strange knight named Hexedy is the opponent."</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">"Oh?" The king raised an eyebrow so high and so dramatically that many onlookers, much later in life, would swear that it had extended to the reaches of heaven itself, "But where is this Hexedy?"</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">It was then a fairly hairy man with a small flower in his hair leisurely strolled into the chamber. "Ah," said the king, retracting his eyebrow from the stratosphere, "He is here. Let the match begin, we have waited long enough. It does not matter that this man has no lance nor horse; those things would not have helped him reach victory anyway. He is hopeless."</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">And so they took their places: Hexedy on one side, Arcite on the other. Arcite began to charge on his horse, going faster and faster and faster and faster. Hexedy did not move. Arcite drew his lance. Hexedy did not move. The snot and spit from the horse was inches away from Hexedy's face. Hexedy did not move. Then suddenly, Hexedy gave Arcite a great headbutt, or should I say, headbang. Arcite was tossed flying through the nearby palace wall, causing the majority of the building to collapse. Arcite continued to fly so fast and so far; eventually, he slammed into a great landmass so hard that the world would become clouded and dark for hundreds of years. This is how the dinosaurs became extinct. </span> |
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| − | -Shine on, you crazy diamond. [[User:ScatheMote|<span style="color:midnightblue">'''Scathe'''</span>]][[User talk:ScatheMote|<span style="color:#778899">'''Mote'''</span>]] 05:25, December 6, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Nominating''' myself for Twitter. Cause I use Twitter a lot and I would like to actually have the wiki account do something. I can guarantee only 10% of my usual personal twitter's shitposting quota, however. For reals though, do the thing. [[User:Hexedmagica|Hexed]] 13:38, December 3, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support''' - Can it end up worse than what we have now? ... Probably not. Besides, it gives him an opportunity to actually help the Wiki (cough which isn't something you do a lot cough) {{User:Jimcloud/Sig}} 14:07, December 3, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support''', yeah sure why not you're not untrustworthy or inadequate for a social media account so meh go for it.--{{User:Technobliterator/Talk}} 14:53, December 3, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">A quiet breeze blows through the center of the quiet hilly town. All the people are asleep, their snores adding a percussion beat to the guitars of the crickets. On top of a small well, a Cat looks sadly at the trees, its slanted eyes wistful. Suddenly, a silent ripple rustles the well water. Then, a great bubble. Now, a torrent! Water rushes in a massive blast out of the dark well and flies into the sky. The Cat, reasonably afraid, jumps and skitters away behind a barrel.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">A soft meow comes in reply. "I look up at the birds in the trees and envy how they can sing songs so melodious that even humans, whom everyone knows to have terrible taste in music, come and listen, petrified by song. Even the chickens, who cockle and doodle so loudly, have a certain kind of beauty behind it. I want that power: when I sing, women and children scream, and the men get out their shotguns to silence me."</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">The frog looked him deep in the eyes. "You may have what you wished. You may Tweet like the rest of the birds, just as you asked." The frog returned back to his well home, satisfied with a job well done.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">The next day the Cat Tweeted all day, happy at the sound of his new voice. However, he became happier after the real reason for his wish came to him: all the birds, fooled by this song, came to investigate. There was never any easier prey to catch in his life! One by one, songbird, chicken, turkey, kiwi, and ostrich alike came their doom at the paws of the Tweeting Cat. The Cat became so fat that he could not move; however, he had no need, as all food came to him.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">The villagers, whose livestock quantities had been significantly decreased, decided to band together to remove themselves of this menace. Yet, what could they do? They could not stop the birds following their doom from flute-like melody? Soon, the cat would eat all the birds in the world; as he became larger, the louder and more bellowing his voice became. So the village, talking for many days, finally decided on a plan.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">At sunrise, the whole village gathered below the cat, and all of them were completely covered in shade, as people were wont to be this days with such a large cat there. They pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed. First, a movement. The cat Twittered in shock! This had not happened in many years! Movement was completely unfamiliar to him. The sweating villages did not give up the effort; they kept pushing and pushing and pushing. Suddenly, the Cat began to roll. A Tweet of anger was the last thing the villages heard before the cat rolled down the hill.</span> |
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| − | <span style=font-family:book antiqua">His mass made him roll so fast that, upon hitting the bottom of the hill, he rolled so quickly up the next one that he was launched into the air. He kept traveling on and on, crying and Twittering all the way, until he had flown so far that he began to orbit around the Earth.</span> |
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| − | -You can have what you have earned. Just don't kill any birds. [[User:ScatheMote|<span style="color:midnightblue">'''Scathe'''</span>]][[User talk:ScatheMote|<span style="color:#778899">'''Mote'''</span>]] 05:37, December 3, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Nominating''' self for Twitter access. Back when we first relaunched our Twitter feed, I [http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Wiki:Twitter?oldid=1455511 was an active tweeter for the wiki]. However, Jeppo and Scathe took care of everything, so I slowly became inactive and have since forgotten the password. Now our feed [https://twitter.com/ffwiki is looking kind of dead]; in fact, almost all of our tweets are Shinra News-related. I'd like to be able to revitalize it with tweets for FI, FA, DNC, Let's Play episodes, and maybe even bring back Sunday trivia. {{User:Catuse167/Templates/sig}} 20:29, November 29, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Support''', and I also support updating for all of those things, like with out Facebook. Except Facebook doesn't update for DNC, which is probably a good idea.--{{User:Technobliterator/Talk}} 20:31, November 29, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Comment''' - Given that the proof of promotion would be your name being on [[Project:Twitter]] (and it is right ''there''), this is essentially a vote to keep you in a position or remove you from it. You don't lose your position once you forget the password. This "promotion" request looks less like a promotion request and more like ideas to improve the Twitter account, which aren't reasons to promote someone. [[User:JBed|JBed]] ([[User talk:JBed|talk]]) 20:47, November 29, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Wut''' - You already ''have'' this position, so someone just tell him the password already. -- {{User:Some Color Mage/sig}} 21:51, November 29, 2014 (UTC) |
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| − | *'''Um...''' Yeah I could just tell you it, unless Jeppo changed it. '''[[User:Tia-Lewise|<span style="color:#FF69B4">Tia-</span>]][[User talk:Tia-Lewise|<span style="color:#9932CC">Lew</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Tia-Lewise|<span style="color:#4B0082">ise</span>]]'''[[File:Rydia - Young battle.png|15px|link=Special:Editcount/Tia-Lewise]] 12:26, December 2, 2014 (UTC) |
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Latest revision as of 00:59, 31 December 2023
Welcome to the Requests for Promotion page. If you wish to nominate a member, or yourself, to be a Staff Member, this is the place to apply. One of the Bureaucrats will review your nomination and pronounce their judgement. You can also request access to Intangir Bot, social media accounts, and Discord moderator here.
Nomination process[]
How to nominate[]
To nominate a user for promotion, add a level 3 header with their username and the proposed rank in parentheses (i.e. ===Name (Rank)===) to the Nomination section below. The nominator should provide reasons for their nomination and sign with four tildes. Self nominations are allowed, and, to be honest, are much easier for us as we need the consent of the candidate at some point anyway. Evocative poetry is encouraged but not mandatory. Other users can then review and comment on the user by adding bullet points below the initial nomination with Support, Oppose or Comment.
A nomination will always be archived once a Bureaucrat has pronounced judgement, unless it is a blatant troll nomination. The archive is kept at /Closed.
Guidelines[]
Staff applications are handled on a case by case basis, and we don't have a 100% consistent criteria for approval. However, there are several points that we look for:
- Be bold! While we do scout for users to nominate every so often, we often leave a while between doing so. If you or someone you know is interested in a position, please come to us instead of waiting for us to come to you.
- Have a good reason. Explain to us what the nominee does for the wiki (briefly, do remember that we can check your full contributions, so you don't have to tell us everything) and why them having the requested tools will be helpful.
- Be active. We don't promote users that haven't edited much recently. Being active for less than 3 months will raise some questions about if the nominee's sticking around long enough to make use of the position.
- Contribute to the content areas of the site. We're most interested in users that help with the Main, File, Template, Etymology, Category and parts of Project namespaces, as these contribute to the main purpose of the site. Helping with other sections is nice, but not as essential. (There's also the MediaWiki namespace, but if you can edit that you're already an admin.)
- Know the rules of the site. Members of staff expected to know enough about the policies to be able to enforce them...
- ...but also help shape them. We'd like it if nominees are involved in discussions about policy.
- Remain calm under pressure. Look, we know, arguments do break out here, and all sides can get a little heated. But we're not interested in nominees that resort to insults or shouting at everyone when the slightest thing goes against them.
Furthermore, there are a few circumstances where applications will be automatically rejected:
- Users that have been blocked for a legitimate reason recently will not be considered.
- Users that have been rejected within the last 4 months will not be considered for the same position. They're still allowed to be considered for other positions.
- If you nominate someone else, and they do not accept the nomination, we'll automatically reject it. If they change their mind, we'll waive the 4 month cooldown.
- We don't like having users skip a tier (Moderator->Administrator->Bureaucrat). If you want to make an application that does that, you will need a very good reason.
Finally, there are a few instances where you don't need to use this page and can just ask an active Bureaucrat:
- Moderators that went inactive before 2017 will not have full Moderator rights, and we can fix that for you. You can check if this affects you at Special:UserRights, legacy mods will only have rollback, while current mods will have content-moderator.
- Note that due to content-moderator missing some legacy mod rights, you actually need both content-moderator and rollback. If you're a mod and are getting rate limited, we can fix that too.
- Most former and inactive staff are not demoted. If you voluntarily removed your rights or Fandom staff removed them for security reasons we're willing to restore that for you.
- Administrators automatically have access to the wiki's YouTube, Twitch, and Twitter accounts, as well as access to Intangir Bot, just join the Discord server and we'll provide you the information needed to access them. If you're not an admin and want access to these things, or you want Bot rights for your own bot, you should ask here.
- This page is for permanent promotions. Users requesting temporary rights should ask a Bureaucrat. If it's urgent, use the Discord server.