Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-6533159-20160226154300

This is a motion to remove Project Predacon's administrative and chat moderator rights for the following reasons.

During the entirety of Volume 3's run, Preda made fewer than 15 mainspace edits in total (see Contributions). This number of edits is so far below the threshold for what is considered a meaningful contribution it should really go without further comment.

While she has a numerically impressive number of edits prior to this period, the vast majority of her edits are incrementally minor adjustments, made for the express purpose of gaining the Wiki Hero badge (which is awarded for editing for 365 days in a row). It's notable that she gained the Wiki Hero badge on February 11th, 2015 and ceased to edit with anything resembling regularity shortly thereafter (her last consecutive mainspace edit in the chain is on the very day of gaining the badge). Checking her mainspace contributions log indicates an almost a 3 month gap during which she made no mainspace edits whatsoever, before and after which she made only minor token edits.

Furthermore, her official duties in the RWBY Wiki Staff roster are outlined as “Oversees edits, while also maintaining the news portion of the Wiki.” Her last edit to the News section of the Wiki was in September 2014, almost a year and a half ago. She also made a grand total of only 9 edits to the News section in her entire tenure as an admin, despite this being her only expressly defined job role. This represents a staggering lack of responsibility and commitment in fulfilling even the simplest of duties for the Wiki.

Preda had also demanded to be appointed as “Project Lead” for the Grimm Eclipse Wiki project. She has not edited this wiki since December 2015, and the most substantial edit she made was this edit, which was lifted in its entirety from the same article on the Main Wiki (which has since been updated, rendering the Grimm Eclipse Wiki out of date). Various templates on the Grimm Eclipse Wiki are also lifted wholesale from their counterparts on the Main Wiki.

Despite claims that she is proficient in CSS, her 'actual' contributions to the CSS of the Wiki have been almost entirely limited to changing the color of her username and admin symbol (changes to her admin symbol comprise well over three quarters of her total CSS edits).


 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikia.css?diff=prev&oldid=293495
 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikia.css?diff=prev&oldid=293494
 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikia.css?diff=prev&oldid=293493
 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikia.css?diff=prev&oldid=293492
 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikia.css?diff=prev&oldid=265425
 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikia.css?diff=prev&oldid=257761
 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikia.css?diff=prev&oldid=257753

Likewise, her only edits to the JavaScript of the Wiki have been to change her user tags, at one point conferring two user tags upon herself, rather than as part of any effort to improve the Wiki. She has also not made any notable contributions to editing Templates in the past year (except edits to her own personal template).


 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js?diff=prev&oldid=391588
 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js?diff=prev&oldid=386451
 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js?diff=prev&oldid=379776
 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js?diff=prev&oldid=303518
 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js?diff=prev&oldid=293111
 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js?diff=prev&oldid=272745
 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js?diff=prev&oldid=265646
 * http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js?diff=prev&oldid=265414

She is also not fit to moderate the chat, as she is inactive for the most part in the chat and has failed to maintain order on several occasions. She is also unreliable and makes conflicting claims about the functionalities of the chat for her, pings being an example when she claims that they don’t work, yet she often acts upon pings. She even becomes aggressive at people for no reason, such as when they address her, once reprimanding someone who simply greeted her in the chat. http://imgur.com/slA2THd

A user who does not contribute meaningfully to the Wiki, does not fulfill the duties entrusted to them and uses their powers primarily for personal reasons should not be an administrator on the Wiki. The contributions which she has been seen to be capable of are not administrator-caliber and simply do not require the powers of an administrator to make.

Voting will take place in this thread. Please preface your inputs on the above motion with either Support (support the removal of rights) or Oppose (oppose the removal of rights). Please also justify your vote with a brief reasoning. Please note that votes entirely without valid reasoning (based on personal friendship, etc.) may not be taken into account.

Please note that the same threshold for eligibility for nominations applies here. To be eligible, a user must have an e-mail confirmed account with no bans or blocks within 4 weeks of the nomination and have been actively editing/posting on the wiki for 2 weeks and have a minimum of 25 edits.

       General Esdeath        15:43, February 26, 2016 (UTC) 