Call of Duty Wiki:Requests for Adminship

For another page abbreviated as "COD:RFA", see Call of Duty Wiki:Requested Featured Articles.

For the page for admin task requests, see Call of Duty Wiki:Administrator Requests.

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The Requests for Adminship page (often abbreviated as RfAs or NfAs depending on the nominator) is used to nominate users for a position on the administrative team, either sysop or bureaucrat (Requests for Bureaucrat flags are known as RfBs), users (as the name implies) may request the flags, or self-nominate. New administrators are often needed as the community at the Call of Duty Wiki expands. They also may be needed to take the place of formerly active administrators who no longer contribute to the wiki.

Requests are generally closed and have a consensus determined two weeks after the nomination. However, if the nominator or nominee chooses to withdraw the nomination or the nominee declines, it may be closed immediately.

Requirements for adminship

To qualify to be an administrator, you must meet this minimum set of requirements:

Have a record of civil behavior
Have contributed to the wiki
Be active

Note that this is a minimum requirement; for higher chances of success the user should be well known, have a good track record at undoing vandalism and should have a decent amount of mainspace edits and should not just be coming out a ban.

Regulations for voting

Keep your cool. RfAs have been known to host some nasty flame wars. If another user disagrees with you and gives you trouble, just keep your cool and don't fight back. That may sound "cowardly", but if you fight back, you could receive a block, and/or make the flame war escalate.
Unregistered users can't vote. To be able to vote, you must have an account to do so. This is to avoid sockpuppetry. However, anyone can still comment.
Be descriptive. Though you don't have to, it's a lot easier for a discussion if you say why you're voting what you're voting. If you just say " Support — Example 06:24, 20 April 2008 (UTC)", you're not really saying why the candidate should be an admin, and your vote may be excluded and ~~struckthrough~~. It's not just for supports, but for all votes.
No Self-Support. Nominators may only support the nominee if they are not one-in-the-same.

Glossary of vote titles

Not just the standard "Support" and "Oppose"s are used in RfAs. This subsection lists most vote types.

Support - A positive vote.
- Strong Support - A very positive vote.
- Extremely Strong Support - An extremely positive vote.
- Weak Support - A positive vote, but the voter has not ruled out oppose.
Neutral - A vote saying that the voter is unsure about the nominee/between supporting and opposing.
- Neutral leaning towards Support - A neutral vote, but closer to support than oppose.
- Neutral leaning towards Oppose - A neutral vote, but closer to oppose than support.
Oppose - A negative vote.
- Strong Oppose - A very negative vote.
- Weak Oppose - A negative vote, but the voter has not ruled out support.
Not yet - A negative vote saying the nominee would not be fit for the role at the current moment, but most likely later.
Comment - A comment.
- : - a comment made in response to another comment can simply be indented.
Question - A sort of comment that asks a question. (Ex. What would you do with your tools?)

There are associated templates to go with most of the vote types above when voting:

{{Support}} creates Support —
- {{Strong Support}} creates Strong Support —
- {{Extremely Strong Support}} creates Extremely Strong Support —
- {{Weak Support}} creates Weak Support —
{{Neutral}} creates Neutral —
- {{Neutral towards Support}} creates Neutral leaning towards Support —
- {{Neutral towards Oppose}} creates Neutral leaning towards Oppose —
{{Oppose}} creates Oppose —
- {{Strong Oppose}} creates Strong Oppose —
- {{Weak Oppose}} creates Weak Oppose —
- {{Not Yet}} creates Not Yet —
{{Comment}} creates Comment —
{{Question}} creates Question —

Nominations

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Active Nominations

Candidate overview
User information	Nomination accepted	Nomination date	Discussion
Randomtime^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Self-nominated	21:39, May 17, 2012 (UTC)	RfA (Sysop)
Joe Copp^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Self-nominated	09:05, May 14, 2012 (UTC)	RfB (Bureaucrat)
KATANAGOD^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Self-nominated	16:55, May 14, 2012 (UTC)	RfA (Sysop)

Recently Closed Nominations

Candidate overview
User information	Nomination accepted	Nomination date	Result	Discussion
KillFeedz OG^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Self-nominated	December 24, 2011, 17:42 (UTC)	Invalid	RfA (Sysop)
Damac1214^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Self-nominated	December 30, 2011, 22:18 (UTC)	Unsuccessful	RfA (Sysop)
Shadowfan68^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Self-nominated	January 5, 2012, 01:49 (UTC)	Invalid	RfA (Sysop)
Francisdrakey55^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Self-nominated	January 23, 2012, 03:00 (UTC)	Invalid	RfA (Sysop)
Redskin-26^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Yes (nominated by KATANAGOD)	January 27, 2012, 11:43 (UTC)	Nomination closed per request	RfA (Sysop)
L96A1 NO SCOP3^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Self-nominated	February 11, 2012, 18:20 (UTC)	Invalid	RfA (Sysop)
Redskin-26^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Yes (nominated by Eltomo85)	March 4, 2012, 00:10 (UTC)	Successful	RfA (Sysop)
CODlov3er^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Self-nominated	March 11, 2012, 13:27 (UTC)	Invalid	RfA (Sysop)
Crazy sam10^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Yes (nominated by Callofduty4)	March 25, 2012, 0:00 (UTC)	Successful	RfA (Sysop)
Zerstörer^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Self-nominated	March 27, 2012, 10:28 (UTC)	Invalid	RfA (Sysop)
SXe Fiend^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	No (nominated by Callofdutyeditor2011)	April 29, 2012, 22:10 (UTC)	Declined	RfA (Sysop)
MLGisNot4Me^{Talk • Contribs • Edit count}	Self-nominated	01:40, May 1, 2012 (UTC)	Successful	RfA (Sysop)