- The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a request for adminship that was successful. Please do not modify it.
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JediMasterMacaroni (30 users/0 users)[]
Two-week deadline from first request. Voting ends on 25 April, 2023.
Support[]
- I'm happy to present Master Macaroni for your consideration as a new Wookieepedia administrator. He is one of the most mature and knowledgeable users we have in the community, and has amassed valuable experience in his role as a rollbacker and a member of the Inquisitorius review board. From handling edit-warring to bot requests; from holding constructive conversations with article writers and giving insight and considered judgement in community votes, the attributes key to adminship are evident in his work thus far. Having been around for almost as long as I have, I think many editors are well acquainted with Macaroni as a frequent presence on our Discord server and can speak to his considerateness and willingness to help anyone; interactions go both ways, and Macaroni communicates well with fellow users and is very familiar with the goings on of the site, which is crucial for administrators who hope to take on active roles as good leaders whenever necessary and also to build relationships and working effectively with fellow Wookieepedians. We need more collaboration and feet on the ground to keep pushing Wookieepedia forward, and I would be honoured to work alongside J-Mac as part of the admin team. OOM 224 (he/him) 09:45, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Macaroni has shown a huge amount of growth as an editor on the site and has become a reliable presence in the community, with fantastic writing and reviewing skills. He'll be a great addition to the admin team. Ayrehead02 (talk) 09:57, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Imperators II(Talk) 10:06, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Without a doubt! Macaroni is a great presence on Wookieepedia, and he's one of the most skilled users and reviewers. I'd be more than happy to see him join the admin team! LucaRoR
(Talk) 10:08, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- per above and willing to bet per below. NBDani
(they/them)Yeager's Repairs 10:24, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Per above. (Yay, a reference loop!) 01miki10 Open comlink 10:40, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Mmmmmm pasta.... Braha'tok enthusiast Hello there 10:48, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Rsand 30 (talk) 10:49, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Many cheers!—spookywillowwtalk 11:21, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
Per 5. Additional voices in leadership are always welcome ℳÅℕ☉❂Ⅎ (he/him/his)(Vote struck per policy: Blocked user -- OOM 224 (he/him) 16:37, 12 April 2023 (UTC))11:23, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Bonzane10 (talk) 12:32, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 12:40, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Go JMM, well deserved, congrats! Lewisr (talk) 12:56, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- ThrawnChiss7
Assembly Cupola 14:33, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Rakhsh (talk) 15:48, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Dentface (talk) 16:29, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Congrats!! DarthRuiz30 (talk) 17:03, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Master Fredcerique
(talk) (he/him) 17:24, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- JMM for admin! Fan26 (Talk) 17:27, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Cade
Calrayn 17:49, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Very excited for you J-Mac, congratulations! Wok142 (talk) 18:49, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- - Thannus (DFaceG) (he/him) (talk) 18:52, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- J-MAc has definitely earned it. Congratulations! VergenceScatter (talk) 19:56, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- BloodOfIrizi
(Syndicure) 01:29, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
- It feel like yesterday since your humble beginnings in Sakhet's Noodles, and the long process to get that article to where it needed to be quality-wise. Since then, you've grown exponentially, getting involved in different facets of the wiki and the larger community. It's been an absolute joy to work with you and I'm happy to see that your work here is being recognized by the community. Well done, you've earned it. UberSoldat93
(talk) 05:48, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
- Per UberSoldat93, I'm happy to see that the community supports you. Excellent job, Macaroni, a well-deserved nomination! Samonic
(Talk) 11:20, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
- Hell yeah Commander Code-8 Hello There! 12:20, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
- NanoLuukeCloning Facility 18:04, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
- JMM's contributions are phenomenal and I've been wondering when this would happen. No doubt having him to assist would be a benefit to the team. —SnowedLightning (they/them) 18:15, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
- Point 23 is a good one. Loqiical (talk) 03:29, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
- Full support from me. JMac is levelheaded, knowledgable, and approachable, all stellar qualities in an admin candidate. Supreme Emperor Holocomm 04:22, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
Oppose[]
Optional candidate Q&A[]
I'll do the traditional questions below, but anyone can ask anything else if they'd like.
- Why do you want to become an administrator?
- First of all, I'd like to thank the Wookieepedia community for trusting me with this position—this is very exciting for me, and I don't take it for granted. In terms of why I want to become an administrator, I think that beyond the fun buttons it entails, it's important to have the most knowledgeable Wookieepedians officially be the ones to whom new and veteran users can turn, and I feel that my being addicted to this site for the last 2+ years qualifies me for that role.
- In your opinion, what is the role of an administrator?
- Wikis need trusted users to be responsible for things like deletions, blocks, and the other technical aspects of being an admin—so when there are users whom other folks see as role models/veterans, it makes sense for those users to be the ones entrusted with those responsibilities.
- In your view, do administrators hold a technical or political position?
- I think this is mostly covered above—it's definitely both, but perhaps it can be described as a political position with technical responsibilities coupled with it because of the trust required to gain that position, if that makes sense.
- How do you feel admins should use their power/stand in comparison with other users?
- Admins obviously have powers that other users don't, but that doesn't mean they have to use them solely on their own—for example, admins should only delete pages if they fully understand the topic at hand and, if they don't, should reach out to other admins or users to figure out what the right path is.
- Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
- I wouldn't have expected to have a significant answer to this question were it not for recent events; I was one of the users trash-talked that resulted in an admin resigning. Learning that there people talking about me and other users unkindly behind backs was certainly disappointing, but I think it was dealt with correctly in terms of asking the admin to resign (though the screenshots, in retrospect, probably should have been handled differently). In terms of the future, I hope that we don't need to deal with such a situation again, but if it does, I am confident that we can use this experience to smoothly deal with whatever arises.
- Of your articles or contributions to Wookieepedia, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?
- My two longest articles, Shodu Warrick and Ghal Tarpfen, are my biggest achievements on the Wook because of the time they took to write. I'm also proud of the rest of the status-article portfolio.
- What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with?
- Anything that needs to be done—deletions, blocks, abusefilters, protections, etc.
- How important is it for you to be involved in things such as CT, FA, GA, and other community-centered items that involve discussion and voting?
- For me personally, as an Inq I have a duty to be actively reviewing all three nom pages, and I try my best to nominate my own articles as well. I also think it's very important that all users vote in CTs and TCs, for a vote that's supposed to represent the will of the community should do so accurately, which requires as many votes as possible. (Vote early! Vote often!) We seem to have had a lot of SHs lately on a wide array of topics, which is great—I'll be trying to pay more attention to those and participate when I can.
- Do you think admins performing actions (I.e. deletions, blocks, etc.) for reasons not covered on policy should be sanctioned/punished? If so, how?
- I trust our admin team to be reasonable and logical when performing admin duties, so this isn't something that worries me—if an admin consistently and knowingly was performing such actions without being governed by policy, I guess it might be worth talking about, but I don't anticipate it being a problem.
- What is your policy, if any, of welcoming new users? Should you welcome a new user, do you look at their contributions beforehand? What about anonymous IPs?
- I try to welcome new users whenever I can when I see helpful contributions—I do try to check their contributions to make sure I'm not welcome a vandal, though. For IPs, we unfortunately don't have a way to contact them directly anymore, so the only thing to do is mention things in edit summaries if necessary.
- How would you react if someone undeleted an article you'd mistakenly speedied? Under what circumstances would you consider it appropriate to undelete an article mistakenly speedied by another administrator, if any, and how would you approach this task?
- If everyone agrees that the speedy was mistaken, then yeah, I don't see an issue with undeleting it. If I was the one making the mistake, I would just stick to my username and say "Uh-oh, spaghettio!"
- How would you react if your user page was vandalized? Under what circumstances would you block the offender? Is there anything else that you would do in this situation?
- I would treat user page vandalism like any other—first a warning and then a block if it persists.
- Under what circumstances would you consider blocking an established user?
- I think this is generally worth a conversation with other admins and/or the user in question to make sure that everyone's on the same page over whether the block-worthy action was intentional or not.
- If you could change any one thing about Wookieepedia, what would it be?
Make the notability policy way stricterI think it would be awesome if we had every user actively participating in the status article process. The way I see it, the goal of the Wook is to have 100% of articles status-quality, so the faster we do that the better.
- Would you look at a glass to be half-empty or half-full?
- Half-full, especially on the Wook—sure, there are tens of thousands of articles that need work, but there are thousands are awesome right now and are what make us the best Star Wars fan site there is.
- Do you feel the current blocking policy is too restrictive, not restrictive enough, or OK as it is?
- I think it's pretty darn cool as is.
- How do you feel about people who already have some influence on other Star Wars communities (TheForce.net, StarWars.com) trying to change policies here?
- We need more editors, so I'd welcome them with open arms if they'd like to contribute. If they're only interested in policy and not helping build the encyclopedia, I'm less interested.
- How many clones do you think fought in the Clone Wars? (Note: You are wrong no matter what answer you give.)
- Several.
- Who is the most awesome Jedi of all time? (Note: The only correct answer is Kyle Katarn.)
- Probably Yarael Poof or Yoda.
- What's more important to you: consensus or policy?
- Gonna steal this one from the Talmud: Consensus, for it leads to policy.
- Have you had any previous leadership experience (in your community, on the web, etc.)?
- I've been on the review boards for over a year and half by this point, which is my online leadership experience.
- What is your attitude towards users who have quit the site or have been banned, but still continue to attempt to influence the site in any way?
- Similar to the outside website question, I'd love users who have quit to return and contribute again so that their opinion is more valid. For banned users, as long as their ban was logical, I'm not so interested in listening.
- What is your wiki philosophy?
- I’m obsessed with this site to an unhealthy degree, so I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about my wiki philosophy. I think that the point of our site is to be an in-universe Wikipedia; if you’re a history nerd in the GFFA, you’re a Wookieepedia editor. If you’re a normal person, say, living on Kashyyyk in 10 ABY and need to cheat on a Clone Wars history quiz, you’d sneak a peek on your holopad underneath your desk on Wookieepedia to find out whatever you need. Seeing as everything in Star Wars occurred a long time ago, however, anyone left in that galaxy has been forced to write their encyclopedia in the past tense. Anyway, that’s why I think our main focus should be in-universe articles. Now, that being said, obviously we need to maintain our OOU articles with the same high standards as well—and if someone makes that their focus on the wiki, amazing! For me though, I think IU content is the most important. (This is also why I don’t think every single person credited needs an article, but that’s a discussion for another day :P)
You’ll see on my user page that I consider myself a deletionist and eventualist. I generally err on the side of delete on TCs because I think the word “notable” actually refers to whether or not the individual or subject did something of note for the galaxy; if someone shouted “Not my apples!” in a market when their fruit is knocked over, that’s just not particularly important for galactic history, so they don’t need an article. As an eventualist, I think the ultimate goal of Wookieepedia is for every single article to be status—obviously that won’t happen anytime soon, or maybe ever, but every time I see an article passed, I am satisfied knowing that a little bit more of our encyclopedia is Officially high-quality. This is also a little bit of why I’m a deletionist: we already have tens of thousands of articles that need to be written up, so when notability is a toss-up, why increase our workload by keeping more?
That’s the nitty-gritty stuff, but really, this wiki is here as an outlet for the most nerdy of Star Wars fans—which is a beautiful thing. I am of the opinion that being a nerd is a great thing in life, and something that helps someone manifest their nerdiness while also having fun doing it is just awesome.
- I’m obsessed with this site to an unhealthy degree, so I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about my wiki philosophy. I think that the point of our site is to be an in-universe Wikipedia; if you’re a history nerd in the GFFA, you’re a Wookieepedia editor. If you’re a normal person, say, living on Kashyyyk in 10 ABY and need to cheat on a Clone Wars history quiz, you’d sneak a peek on your holopad underneath your desk on Wookieepedia to find out whatever you need. Seeing as everything in Star Wars occurred a long time ago, however, anyone left in that galaxy has been forced to write their encyclopedia in the past tense. Anyway, that’s why I think our main focus should be in-universe articles. Now, that being said, obviously we need to maintain our OOU articles with the same high standards as well—and if someone makes that their focus on the wiki, amazing! For me though, I think IU content is the most important. (This is also why I don’t think every single person credited needs an article, but that’s a discussion for another day :P)
Again, thanks for considering me as an admin—each and every vote means a lot to me. And if for whatever reason you wouldn't like to support, that's fine too—no hard feelings. JediMasterMacaroni(Talk) 00:43, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
- A user comes to you privately with concerns about another admin or user. Maybe a close friend. What do you do? ℳÅℕ☉❂Ⅎ (he/him/his)
15:03, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
- I'd make sure I understand what the concerns are and reach out to the user in question to hear their side of the story. If that doesn't convince me that there's just been a misunderstanding, I'd reach out to the rest of the admins to discuss potential discipline.
- Do you think that admin have the individual or collective authority to override/ignore policy if they deem it to be in the community's interest? ℳÅℕ☉❂Ⅎ (he/him/his)
15:03, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
- No, certainly not individual and not collective either. If there's something that desparately needs changing, it can go to a vote. JediMasterMacaroni(Talk) 16:56, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
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