Forum:Requests for adminship:happypal

Hello everyone,

I, happypal (talk &bull; contribs), would like to make a formal community request for adminship.

Who am I
I am just an enthusiast editor, who has been with borderlands for about over a year.

What have I done for the wiki
I have been a part of several large scale projects, such as the Mechanics project. I have done some overhaul of the weapon infoboxes, and weapon navboxes. I pushed for the distinctions of rarity-ratings (white green blue etc), and rarity-class (common, unique, legendary), and enforced this with colors in our navboxes/weapon boxes. Overall, I have done a lot of "back-end" support, repairing templates, upgrading them, deploying them etc. I've touched the css some, through Dr.F at first, and directly later.

Conflict resolution
I have been through several conflicts since I have been here. I was banned on day 1 by Dr. F. I had to push against a lot of the community when I first proposed my mechanics project to have it validated. I argued against the caption project; I respectfully lost on that one, but accepted the result.

Overall, I like to believe I am calm, and can hear both sides of a story. I always take my time, as I know that this kind of stuff can take several days to unfold. I have never raged or been insulting to anyone before (that I can remember...)

My plan as an admin
I do not view being an admin as a privilege. On the contrary, I think it is an obligation that makes you responsible more than ever for the wiki. Those that have the skill and know how should use it as much as possible. If I become admin, my plan is to support the editors more than ever by supplying functional and ready-to-use templates, as well as being always available for when the inevitable Borderlands 2 clusterfuck comes along, and admin support will be needed to maintain the wiki.

I'll also point out that I live in a different time zone, making me ideally located to fight vandalism when most other admins are sleeping.

My experience as an Admin
I acquired the rights of admin on Supcom/Supcom 2/Demigod through hard work. Those wikis are mostly dormant now, but I have learned a lot from them. I also became admin, then bureacrat, of the terraria-online wiki. I am also the founder of bl2wiki. Long story short, I know what the job implies.

Conflict of interest
It is my responsibility to point out I am also the founder of a another wiki dedicated to Borderlands 2. I do not want to make anything of it, but if you believe 1) my intentions are not well placed, or that 2) this will impeded me in my work as an admin, then I will have tell you right now you are sorely mistaken:
 * 1) My home has and always will be here. I have supported this wiki, and continue to do so.
 * 2) I will also have the outsider's view on the wiki, which should help me even more here.

Closing word
I just want everyone to know that if you do not want me as an admin, I will not rage quit for it, and continue to diligently contribute.