Valve Developer Community:Moderator elections

Moderator elections are being hosted to ease reliance on Valve due to changes in time since the creation of the wiki that prohibit admins from being able to do meaningful work.

Moderators have the ability to:

• Block other users from editing
• Protect pages and edit protected pages
• Delete pages

along with other select permissions.

Moderators will retain their permissions indefinitely unless it is decided that they can not uphold their duties as a moderator, either through resignation or through community/administrative decision. Future elections will be held at the discretion of Valve.

Note:Running will be closed on Sunday, 23 June 2024.

Running

Users who would like to run for moderator must be autoconfirmed and have at least 100 edits. Users can check their own edit count at Special:Preferences. You will be removed from the list of users running if you do not meet the requirements listed.

It is also highly recommended that you should change or use passwords that are long enough and secure, in order to prevent hackers from login on any moderators account and vandalizes this wiki.

To add yourself, place the following under the Users running for moderator section:

{{SUBST:Moderator entry|{{SUBST:REVISIONUSER}}|reason for running --~~~~}}

Elections have no specific timeframe and will be decided based when it is felt that they should end.

Voting

Voting can be done with the Vote template. Usage can be found in its docs. Place your vote under its respective section and add ~~~~ to the end of it.

To vote use this template: {{Vote|<yes/no>| <your text here> --~~~~}}

Users running for moderator

Place entries below this line.

Nescius

User: Nescius (Special:Contributions/Nescius)

Reason: Being able to delete occasional accidentally created pages would be convenient --Nescius (talk) 19:21, 16 June 2024 (PDT)

Yes

1.  Yes: 

   I trust this person to not make the site worse based on their edit history. --Angel (talk) 07:02, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
2.  Yes: 

   Active, makes good edits on L4D2 pages in spirit of a developer wiki and minds his own business. --Ficool2 (talk) 07:06, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
3.  Yes: 

   Like other users, active and no questionable edits. All good. --leonidakarlach (talk) 07:37, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
4.  Yes: 

   Appears to have a good history of edits --Squidski (talk) 08:15, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
5.  Yes: 

   Active and have made a lot of good edits. Mr. System Error^{(T - C)} 08:21, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
6.  Yes: 

   Seems to be a sane person --SlimekPL (talk) 08:40, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

Mr. SystemError

User: Mr. SystemError (Special:Contributions/Mr. SystemError)

Reason: There are a lot of pages and files marked for deletion, and the last vandal account was banned from editing months after the last time that account was active. I have reverted various vandalism and can help. Mr. System Error^{(T - C)} 00:13, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

No

1.  No: 

   one of the users actively making the wiki worse by adding lots of superfluous functions such as achievements, information about unpopular mods etc etc. I don't think Any of this group of users should get any additional controls. --Vaya Mapcore (talk) 06:51, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
2.  No: 

   This person is a member of a group which is actively making the wiki harder to navigate and edit. --SlimekPL (talk) 07:07, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
3.  No: 

   Also seems to be creating unnecesary templates and polluting the VDC.
   Angel (talk) 07:34, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
4.  No: 

   Per the points above. Sorry, but I do not want you to have even more access to the wiki's structure. We really should start undoing at least some of these massive changes. They were rolled onto us one by one, they can be removed one by one... Cvoxalury (talk) 10:18, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

Max34

User: Max34 (Special:Contributions/Max34)

Reason: I often visit this site and review all the changes since my last visit. Although I am the person who is more concerned about the technical part of the site (creating and updating templates, keeping the code clean), I will not allow some vandals to break the site. This site has become almost a second home to me, because when I’m having a hard time and I’m burning out, this site saves me. --Max34 (talk) 01:08, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

Yes

1.  Yes: 

   I think I'll stick up for you. It is clear that someone needs to clean up this swamp of triple template language pages. But like any change, according to the theory of Everett Rogers, you need people who will implement it. Good luck to you guys. --Clash (talk) 10:36, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

No

1.  No: 

   one of the users actively making the wiki worse by adding lots of superfluous functions such as achievements, information about unpopular mods etc etc. I don't think Any of this group of users should get any additional controls. --Vaya Mapcore (talk) 06:52, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

   I agree that lately the wiki has been filled with unnecessary functionality and super-colorful garbage (SDKTools template as an example). When we first started doing all this, there wasn’t that much of it, so it didn’t seem like it was a problem. This became a problem when it began to be used en masse without proper regulation. --Max34 (talk) 08:18, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

   it became a problem as soon as you started doing this. Its not required and it makes VDC less usable. Its meant to be a technical resource, not your pet project - Vaya Mapcore (talk) 08:26, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

   I just want to make this wiki better. Yes, sometimes I don’t do the best things, but without mistakes we cannot achieve the best result; the main thing is to admit mistakes and correct them. That's why I'm working on a Page template, which (according to my ideas) should solve most of the problems caused by MultiPage. --Max34 (talk) 08:53, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

   Then why do you people keep it up? Cvoxalury (talk) 10:28, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

2.  No: 

   This person is a member of a group which is actively making the wiki harder to navigate and edit. --SlimekPL (talk) 07:07, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

   Creating a MultiPage template did make editing more difficult, which I was aware of when I created this template. Only there were few people who spoke negatively about the shortcomings, so in the end the template went into full use. Now I'm trying to come up with a new (yes, another) template, which is now the Page template. Right now this new system of how the page process works is terribly complicated and I'm trying to fix that. Lang, MultiPage, Page — all this is a process to achieve an optimal result that will be convenient for both readers and editors. --Max34 (talk) 08:18, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

3.  No: 

   This user is the self titled creator of "Team_34" which seems to be a team of people who all spam the wiki with low quality edits and unneeded templates. --Angel (talk) 07:15, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

   Sorry for making you think that there is some kind of “team” that is ruining everything. It is in no way associated with this site, I am involved in editing this site alone. --Max34 (talk) 08:18, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

   You are contradicting yourself about there being no "team", in your first response you said "When we first started doing all this", and in your last you said "I am involved in editing this site alone", so which one is it.Angel (talk) 08:36, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

   Sometimes I write in the plural because I work on things with THE OWL from time to time. Very often I need someone's opinion before doing something, and since we often chats with him, I usually ask him. --Max34 (talk) 08:53, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

Kr0tchet

User: Kr0tchet (Special:Contributions/Kr0tchet)

Reason: With admin (aka moderators) perms, I would be able to delete stuff (such as mistakenly created pages, or unused files) and do other admin-required stuff, and I can also check whether there is vandalism, spam, etc... on this Wiki (I probably might be able to block any vandals faster since I'm very active on this wiki, and occasionally watching related changes around 11AM - 11PM UTC+7). Through I also do other stuff on this wiki such as updating/cleaning up templates. There are alot of old unused stuff that needs to be deleted. Forgot to mention that I largely never made changes to the template which would make the site less usable (and also the changes I made at the time with THE OWL's main page which was kinda confusing to use for me, was just grammar fix). --leonidakarlach (talk) 03:43, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

Yes

1.  Yes: 

   I find it good to remove unused files and mistakenly created pages or pages having the Delete Template. --N0one (talk) 04:53, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
2.  Yes: 

   Active person on the wiki, wants to clean up the site from unused content, seems like a good candidate. --Wikot235 (talk) 06:38, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

No

1.  No: 

   one of the users actively making the wiki worse by adding lots of superfluous functions such as achievements, information about unpopular mods etc etc. I don't think Any of this group of users should get any additional controls. --Vaya Mapcore (talk) 06:53, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
2.  No: 

   This person is a member of a group which is actively making the wiki harder to navigate and edit. --SlimekPL (talk) 07:07, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
3.  No: 

   User seems to also be creating unneeded templates and low quality edits like most candidates on this page
   Angel (talk) 07:35, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

THE OWL

User: THE OWL (Special:Contributions/THE OWL)

Reason: Well, why not? I can stay away from this wiki for a whole week, just think about improving it from time to time, and then rework a bunch of stuff in one day.
Maybe I'm not serious enough, I actually want full access to this wiki, including FTP, but I've done enough to be trusted. --THE OWL (talk) 12:38, 17 Jun 2024 05:38, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

Yes

1.  Yes: 

   I think I'll stick up for you. It is clear that someone needs to clean up this swamp of triple template language pages. But like any change, according to the theory of Everett Rogers, you need people who will implement it. Good luck to you guys. --Clash (talk) 10:36, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

   So you're voting for someone who created this mess in the first place. Make it make sense --SlimekPL (talk) 10:56, 17 June 2024 (PDT)

No

1.  No: 

   User has flooded the VDC with useless string of templates upon templates making the site impossible to edit or fix certain pages because it's such a clusterbutt. --Haaselh0ff (talk) 05:58, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
2.  No: 

   This person is singlehandedly responsible for the enshittification of the VDC. --SlimekPL (talk) 05:52, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
3.  No: 

   As others have said, this user has done a lot of work in making the VDC a lot less usable than it previously was. The've added a lot of functionality that is not needed on a wiki --Vaya Mapcore (talk) 06:10, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
4.  No: 

   Due to this user's edits even a page as simple prop static is a mess to nagivate and awful from a user perspective, it also makes the site very slow. --Angel (talk) 06:14, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
5.  No: 

   This guy turned the wiki into a templated nightmare web that is now almost impossible to untangle. Simple edits to almost any page now require digging through a massive pile of templates. Nobody wants this and he's completely deluded into thinking he's improving things. --Braindawg (talk) 7:22, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
6.  No: 

   Arguably single-handedly responsible for perhaps the ugliest and least functional UI/templating I've ever seen --Squidski (talk) 08:15, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
7.  No: 

   Couldn't agree more with everyone above. While this editor's dedication is commendable, it is unfortunately misguided in my opinion. It is directed toward making a wiki something they want instead of prioritising usability, ease of use, speed - and that earns a No in my book. Cvoxalury (talk) 10:09, 17 June 2024 (PDT)