Board Thread:Requests for User Rights/@comment-27138615-20170613151322

I know that I only came back really recently, but becoming an admin was something I wanted to be for years. However, I didn’t bother to work hard for the position back in the day. Well, for the past few weeks, I’ve decided that I’m going to work harder in able to get the position that I’ve been wanting to get for so long. And no, I didn’t want to get this position just to become more popular or the get all of the praise. I’ll go in depth to everything later in their specific sections when the time is right. I’ve decided to go with headers instead of tabbers because I feel like it’s actually neater to go with headers, as long as it’s formatted correctly.

Requirements
Now, don’t assume I have enough mainspace edits because I do not have Peacekeeper II. The reason why I have enough is because my former account was Pepsicola45 (This verifies it). If you check its edit count, it has 326 mainspace edits. My current account, while not having Peacekeeper II, as of submitting this application, has 798 mainspace edits. Combining those two numbers, you get 1124 mainspace edits, still above the 1000 mainspace requirement. I’ve had some rather on and off periods, but I’ve joined as Pepsicola45 at April 5, 2014. Even if I was gone for the wiki edit-wise for a long time, the amount of days I’ve been able to stay here again are long enough to let me get used to a lot of the wiki, even if I don’t get along with everything perfectly. I was never blocked, banned, or warned (although reminded for a mainspace mistake I’ve made which I won’t repeat somewhere outside of my talk page). I don’t intend to break the rules but I can control myself better these days if I ever get on the edge. To end this off, a 75% support rate is a tricky number to get since not everyone thinks the same, but it’s up to you whether or not I deserve the position.

Why I Want These Rights
The reason why I want to run for these rights is, of course one of them being to achieve my dream, but it’s not just that. Now I’m going to warn that it’s not all positive and sunshine I’m going to say here, so I apologize if I sound too harsh. For my side of the world, at least, the pace of the wiki still suffers from being too slow with doing things only admins and above can do. Majority of the admins are from the western side of the world, and I can really only contact ThisUserLikesOreo (who does A LOT of the work already), Drek’TharSuperSword, and Phantom of Ra (Someone456 and Jack are busy in real life as they themselves said and I barely see Plant Protecter involved with important work). Another thing I have a problem with is that some admins are rather hard to contact and aren’t active enough. I’m not saying that you should be super active and aware, I’m just saying that they should be active enough to help out. I can understand if one is in a worst case scenario like they can’t access the internet anymore, but come on, some I know have quite a lot of spare time but aren’t in important things, especially with their high significance… I’m going to be honest here and this isn’t a great ensemble of admins compared to the ones we had before. I know life can get in the way for a lot of people, but I barely see some admins in important things. Others definitely are having a presence but some just kind of feel like they aren’t really here anymore and either just became active for two weeks to get their rights back or are just active in more casual things. But I do commend those who took the time to say that they’ll be inactive because of an important exam or vacation. I want to run for admin to fill in the holes that need to be fixed with the administration team. Even if I’m quite busy, my mood’s down, or if I’m in school, I check the wiki. My high activity can allow me to fix things in the wiki very quickly when other people can’t, because like I said before, it still feels like that the administration team is too slow. Truth be told, I’m a person with a lot of spare time since I actually do not have a lot in life to do. As a matter of fact I actually pretty much “grew up” here. The wiki means a lot to me growing up and sometimes I end up forgetting due to my own ignorance. I also want to run for admin to repay the favor to the wiki because without it, I would have never gotten to this point of life I have now.

Pros
I can see the problems that need to be fixed quickly and I’m quite easy to contact. Aside from my talk pages, I’m quite active in the Lawn (even if I lag badly sometimes) and I can even access it in school. I will say this though that I’m not 100% focused into the window and sometimes I may do homework or watch YouTube videos. I’m quite active when it comes to lurking the wiki. Even if I have school these days, I often check Recent Activity during my spare time, and because of that, I can get a good glimpse of what is going on. Even if I’m not another one of those discussion moderators who play so many forum games, roleplay, or go into the major discussions about the game, I do see a LOT that happens. When it comes to the important threads, at the very least I can vote on the ones that I can gather a real opinion on. I really can’t say I vote in every single voting thread because sometimes I really can’t choose (but not neutral) for sure or I haven’t known the source material well enough. For the most part (usually when my mood is usually well or above), I can go deeper into research into a certain topic when I need to so I can help out provide things like a better defense. I’ve done things like this before and an example is the HumpbackII case. If CSS really matters into this, I at least least know the codes that are actually needed and probably the ones for customized chat fonts, backgrounds, and what else, mostly just because they’re copy and paste. And as I’ve said before, I care about the wiki’s problems. One example of me trying to do a change is the rather polarizing staff evaluation system, which I can unders It upsets me a lot that there have been a lot of drama for the long time I’ve been here, sometimes on and off. I know at this rate drama is impossible to end once and for all, but I want to help out the wiki in the best way I can, like doing mainspace edits and knowing everything that’s going on with being up to date.

Cons
I’m going to huddle up the majority of them together since they root to one thing, my personality. I’m still too shy and not as outgoing as the others, but I still try to be as friendly as possible (even if I’m a person who doesn’t like making friends easily) to others. At the same time though, it’s hard for me to be “full of positive emotion” when it comes to some people who get to my nerves. If I remember correctly, I’m not too much of a fan of what the wiki is these days. I can try to help out others with their problems if I can, but I won’t make friends easily after 3 talks unless I can really see some kind of connection. It has a lot to do with the wiki because it can affect the way how I interact with users here. Don’t make this seem like I’m unapproachable though, I’m willing to talk to anyone if they need me. I’m also quite dimwitted, more than other people think. This has to do with the wiki because it makes me forget to check everything before making a surefire decision, and it can end up with me doing something wrong. But this is something I’ve been trying to fix even more because I try my best to not repeat mistakes. If my somewhat bad memory doesn’t get in the way, I can be someone who learns quite fast. Aside from more minor mistakes that I try to avoid, there’s school. This is not just school downgrading my activity a bit. Now, as I’ve said before I can access the wiki, from school, but school can strain me pretty badly. My school’s quality is going downhill, so when my mood is strained, I might not be able to be at least super active. Since I do care a lot about the wiki, I’ll try to fight my laziness in order to do improvements. And no, I am NOT a CSS master. Most of the codes I can do are just ones that I get the base, do some copy and pasting, and modify to get it to the value wanted. I can’t do special things that make things “fancy” or “unique”.

Closing Notes
I’ve spent a lot of my time focusing on trying to write this application for around two days. I didn’t want it to end up being lackluster like some have been quite recently. I want to do my best in this position and I don’t want to give up so easily. But it’s up to you whether I get the position or not. My fate is yours to decide.  