Thread:BP Vermilion/@comment-4765539-20150125224622/@comment-46.244.142.84-20150126221733

What the people above said holds true, but let's go through this one-by-one just to make sure this is all observed proper, shall we? I went through the data I could gather to make what I say not baseless, but feel free to point out when you feel I'm in the wrong, so we can have a proper discussion about it. To quote the page that lists the requirements for being an admin:

"Have been contributing to the BlazBlue Wiki for a considerable period of time and are regularly on the wiki"

So far so good. Vermillion has been contributing since over three years with rising average activity. In fact, compared to one of the current admins, he has not only been more active in total and recent contribution, but also on average (going by the contributions page for each person). This also invalidates the first two reasons for rejection of adminship back when applied for (they might have been valid reasons back then, but the situation clearly has changed).

As already noted above by the others, whether quality was an issue back then or not, this has clearly changed for the better, giving little basis for upholding the last of the three rejection reasons listed today. But let's continue:

"Be trusted by the current administrators"

Takoto does trust him, otherwise he would have never made him admin in the first place. Night hasn't commented on this recent issue as far as I'm aware though, so it's hard to tell right now what the general opinion is.

And on to the last block:

"Have no history of serious blocks due to vandalism or harassment" "Vigilant in stopping vandalism and keeping speculation off the article pages" "Enforce all of our official policies"

Those three, as far as I'm aware, are not violated by Vermillion in any way that my quick research through edit history and such could confirm. Point being here is that Vermillion does qualify as admin by the standards set there.

That aside, what I find a bit worrying is the matter in which this whole problem is dealt with here. Kusanagi, you claim that Vermillion does not have qualification to be admin for the reasons stated before. However, that reasoning was based on old information that by now as far as I can observe it is outdated and doesn't apply anymore. What you describe as a recent spate of activity is actually a more or less constant stream of activity that has been increasing rather constantly over time, which everyone can check for themselfes on the contributions' page of Vermillion. Especially compared to your own activity and contribution in the same timeframe (that is, since the discussion linked in 2013), Vermillion has done a very good job.

You say that you and Night "aren't the most active admins" which in comparison seems to be true, but you "keep an eye on the wiki, both of us coming on at least a few times every day, often throughout the day, to check on recent changes, and are here to do what needs to be done, when it is needed". That might sound as if you are implying that Vermillion isn't doing just that: Doing what is needed, when it is needed. And from the impression I get after looking at contributions, Vermillion did quite a lot of what needed to be done when it needed to be done.

This comparison is obviously not supposed to dimish anyone's contributions to this project, but if read wrong, it might sound a bit like such diminishing is happening to Vermillion's contributions, which he doesn't deserve. Probably that is what was refered to above as "condescending", though I doubt it was meant in such a way.

In general, the descision of Takoto appears a lot less random than claimed, though I agree with Kazen that it was indeed done at a pretty fast pace. However, the thought it behind it was not a bad one, in that I agree with everyone. And as Kazen said, what is there to be lost? Doesn't look like it would be a bad choice to make him admin, so up is the only way to go?

-Kuro