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.
SirYodaJedi
User: SirYodaJedi (Special:Contributions/SirYodaJedi)
Reason: I am relatively active on this website, even though most of my recent edits outside of userspace are minor. My primary concerns with the VDC are legibility, usability, and accuracy. I try to stick with whatever style is already set forth; the only "major" design change I can think of that I've been on the forefront of is implementing a system for sourcing references (in a way less obtrusive than Wikipedia, imo).
I have a mixed opinion on the recent changes in how the wiki looks and works.
I think {{software page}} takes up too much room on pages like Source. The nested nature of {{multipage}} makes editing a hassle. Some information, particularly lists, are in templates instead of directly on the page, because they're on more pages than they need to be (I'm slightly guilty of this with {{warning model lightmaps}}). There isn't any rhyme or reason when to use the different text render styles of {{software}} (I tend to use 2 the most, since its the least obtrusive; 1 is kinda pointless, and wastes template calls).
I think the "modern" note templates help visibility, and make it clear what a given note is about (warnings were too easy to miss before). The deprecation of {{game name}} has made mentioning multiple games much easier (like so: 
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As for moderator qualifications, I am a co-admin of the TTGames LEGO Modding discord server (10k members), and have been on the moderation team there for over two an a half years. I've also been a "senior editor" on the 
PCGamingWiki for five years, which is basically inbetween regular logged-in users and moderators. I've only been modding Valve games for about two years, but I am familiar with the community, soak up information, and try my best help people with stuff I know about when I can.
— SirYodaJedi (talk) 14:44, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
Yes
- This user has made many high quality edits to the wiki and has regularly updated incorrect information. They are active in source modding hubs outside of the wiki as well, so are able learn about new quirks in the Source 2 engine and update the wiki with much needed information related to the new engine as it becomes available. --FrozenH2O (talk) 15:01, 17 June 2024 (PDT) Yes:
No
Pee
User: Pee (Contributions | Bot Contributions)
Reason: I'm fairly active on this website, and I believe that I generally make constructive and uncontroversial edits. Many of my edits as moderator would be minor, and the larger edits would be done carefully and only if I am confident in them. I would listen to any feedback given. I have no intention on automating tasks with moderator privileges, I will use my own discretion on any edits that I will make. For this reason (and just for safety), I am not requesting moderator privileges on my bot account.
Yes
- User is fairly active, and I concur that their edits are largely productive, rather than obstructive, even when refactoring is involved. Yes:
— SirYodaJedi (talk) 13:31, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
No
- This user (through the use of their bot, PeeBot) spams automated, unneeded edits all around the wiki. Similar to my complaints about templates on other users applying here, I believe this is just unnecessary and serves to clutter without adding detail or readability to pages. While I do believe the user means well by it, it just does not help the wiki in my opinion. --FrozenH2O (talk) 14:56, 17 June 2024 (PDT) No:
SethTooQuick
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User: SethTooQuick (Special:Contributions/SethTooQuick) Reason: I'm trustworthy and active. It'd be nice to keep the VDC up and running for as long as it can. --SethTooQuick (talk) 12:27, 17 June 2024 (PDT) Yes
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(Equalizer5118
User: Equalizer5118 (Special:Contributions/Equalizer5118)
Reason: Despite my lack of edits recently, I check the site every day. I have a great track record of edits, have created some largely used templates ({{autocat}}), converted a large amount of game articles to the {{software page}} template, and have a great understanding of templates. I am also a quality assurance tester for 
Portal 2: Community Edition, and the devs can attest to my dedication and willing to get work done. I have added some large amounts of documentation relating to P2CE ($parallax).
A major reason why I think I would be a great moderator is my ability to remain neutral. I don't take sides unless it is a close friend. I am heavily in favor of hearing both sides out and trying to find a middle ground.
Some things I stand for:
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- Clear english: I understand some users are not the most fluent in English, and in think that there should be some users who go over edits and fix grammar and the likes
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- Easy visibility: There are many templates (SDKTools) that have too much color, and makes it hard to read especially on phone screens or higher resolutions. Simplifying colors would make this much easier. (Yes, I have made some edits contributing to these colorful nightmares, but I understand the gripes about them now and my view has changed)
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- Civil discussions: this isn't reddit. Users on this site must be over 13, so lets talk like we are mature adults and not insult throwing 9 y/o's.
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- Instant reaction: too often users like User:Lxm6 have free reign for days on end. Only rarely are the Valve mods online, and my frequent visiting of the site will be very helpful in mitigating the damage these users will do.
To sum up, I have large amounts of experience with the source engine and mediawiki. I believe that I would be a great candidate for moderator--Equalizer (talk) 12:06, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
Yes
- I trust this guy. He helped me and many other users. --User:Mr. SystemError (talk) 07:02, 17 June 2024 (PDT) Yes:
- Pretty reasonable person from my experience, and he writes good docs. He uses templates (which is good in moderation), but he doesn't do the crazy confusing 4-layer nested template lasagna in the middle of a page that prevents me from finding where some text is. --Ozxybox (talk) 12:36, 17 June 2024 (PDT) Yes:
No
- This user is also using the same convoluted "social media"-esque user page as other users here who have made questionale edits, including the person that made this user page template to begin with, and seems to have done questionable edits to pages and made convoluted templates, so for me that's a no. Angel (talk) 12:30, 17 June 2024 (PDT) No:
- Hey, could you present some examples of questionable edits and convoluted templates and how those should impact my ability to function as a moderator? I also did not make the user page template. Also, my user page does not relate to the quality of my edits, I just like how it looks. --Equalizer (talk) 12:39, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
- I don't take sides unless it is a close friend. - what's that supposed to mean? Other than that, I don't feel like supporting this candidate. Being a tester for P2CE is great, but has little to do with the wiki... the personal page and selected examples of created pages don't convince me all too well. Cvoxalury (talk) 12:35, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
- It means that unless i have personal ties to someone in question (such as i know them from outside the site), I treat each party with neutrality. Can you also present some examples of why my selected pages deter you? --Equalizer (talk) 12:39, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
- But shouldn't you treat them with neutrality either way? As for pages. While it's very tedious to go through page history (every diff loads with "verifying you're human"), I glanced at Materialize page, which immediately stood out as the 'social/templatist' fluff, and the necessity of this page is questionable (can't it be a section in Creating PBR materials page?). Your page says you created Installing Hammer++ for Other Games, but unless I'm misreading its page history, it was THE OWL? (the page is one huge mess, too). As for your personal page, it's the 'social media' style of it. Cvoxalury (talk) 12:48, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
- It means that unless i have personal ties to someone in question (such as i know them from outside the site), I treat each party with neutrality. Can you also present some examples of why my selected pages deter you? --Equalizer (talk) 12:39, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
- I still don't see how the "social media" style of it should be a deterrent, it's a user page. By definition it's supposed to be what the user wants it to be. Have I ever created a page that looks like that or pushed other users to adopt that style? As for the h++ installing or other games, I created it when it was originally for Portal 2 and have since updated it. When it got moved to it's new position, THE OWL copied and pasted the code instead of moving it. If you check my user contribs and scroll down, you can find my creation of that page.
- And finally, if you have ever had gripes with these pages, why not create an account and make some requests on the talk page? If this has truly been an issue you could have spoken up. The inclusion of templates such as the {{materialize}} and the SDK tools at the end are only because they are standard on all the other pages, so I don't want to break visual parity to the other pages. Materialize was created as a separate page because it's a unique program, and as nobody made any objections to this, I thought this was alright.
- First of all, I had this account for a while, I'm not a new user who just registered for the votes. I made it before for the sake of adding info. I don't have all the time in the world to track and fight off every incremental change I didn't like, but when I finally had enough, I had spoke up, so that point is moot, that I "could have spoken up". I did. Things like "nobody objecting" isn't the same as having consensus. What should matter is what arguments we're voicing now, not so much the choice of when we're doing it. I am actually glad that you edited the SDK Tools template, that you took that step.
- As for personal page. Yeah, it's a fair point, it's your page. I shouldn't have used it as an argument, to tell the truth I looked at it and mentally labeled you as being on 'that' side of the argument. But I shouldn't have. I'll strike my vote out, and I ask @PabloS that it doesn't count. (I am on the fence still, so I'm not ready to change it to Yes vote). Cvoxalury (talk) 14:18, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
- And finally, if you have ever had gripes with these pages, why not create an account and make some requests on the talk page? If this has truly been an issue you could have spoken up. The inclusion of templates such as the {{materialize}} and the SDK tools at the end are only because they are standard on all the other pages, so I don't want to break visual parity to the other pages. Materialize was created as a separate page because it's a unique program, and as nobody made any objections to this, I thought this was alright.
- As for the close friends thing, if they were in the wrong obviously of course I would then be against them. You cannot tell me that you are completely unbiased, nobody can be, which is what I was trying to say. I remain as neutral as possible. Friends or close ties will always influence everybody's decisions (but I don't have a whole lot of friends lol), so I was just trying to state that I am still a human --Equalizer (talk) 13:01, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
Nescius
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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
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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)
Yes
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) No:
- This user is partly responsible for the recent restructuring of the wiki that only makes it more of a pain to access both as a user and a contributor. Their template spam everywhere leads to unnecessary text on many pages that not only reduces readability, but also leads to future edits being more time consuming and convoluted to make. While templates can expedite creation of completely new pages, this user's use of the them and addition of them to many old pages only serves to push users towards directly reading game .fgd files instead of using the wiki as a resource. --FrozenH2O (talk) 11:12, 17 June 2024 (PDT) No:
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
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) No:
- 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)
- Right now I am in the army (1 year in the army. This is mandatory and cannot be refused). All this year I have not had the normal opportunity to fully participate in the development of the site. However, at the end of the month I will be back and can work on correcting my mistakes to the fullest.
Right now I'm doing everything possible to fix at least some of the problems that I brought to this site.
I understand most of the outrage towards everything “new”, but it will take time to fix it. --Max34 (talk) 11:44, 17 June 2024 (PDT)
- Right now I am in the army (1 year in the army. This is mandatory and cannot be refused). All this year I have not had the normal opportunity to fully participate in the development of the site. However, at the end of the month I will be back and can work on correcting my mistakes to the fullest.
- 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 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)
- 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) No:
- 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)
- 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) No:
- 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)
- Similar to the qualms I have against many of the other current applicants, this user has increased the spam of templates accross the wiki at the expense of both readability. Any random contributor browsing a wiki page and seeing a tiny issue now has to navigate through multiple different pages in an attempt to correct what used to have been a minor 5 second edit. Such a restructure only serves to deter more mappers from using the wiki as a resource and to deter future contributors from spending their free time to improve the documentation provided here. --FrozenH2O (talk) 11:12, 17 June 2024 (PDT) No:
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
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) No:
- The wiki used to be easily readable documentation that clearly and concisely listed what mappers needed for reference. The spam of templates not only makes it harder to navigate the wiki, but also harder for any minor corrections to be made as an editor must search through potentially multiple pages to find where the typo is saved. --FrozenH2O (talk) 11:12, 17 June 2024 (PDT) No:
- Like others have said, I'm dissatisfied with the current state of the wiki's edit capacity. Now, to start things off, I recognize that the usage of templates in recent times is, in a pretty great amount, done so that pages can be translated while all maintaining a level of parity between one another. However, I feel like the use OF these templates has become very overzealous lately. Stubs like VRAD (Source 2) really don't need templates, and they just become editor-hostile when they're made up entirely of template pages. --Wolfcl0ck (talk) 15:21, 17 June 2024 (PDT) No:
THE OWL
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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.
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