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The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a request for foundership that succeeded in an alternate universe. Please do not modify it.

FrigidNinja

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Final (19/5/2); Closed as successful in an alternate universe by FrigidNinja at 11:24 pm, Yesterday (UTC÷4)

Nomination

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FrigidNinja (talk · contribs) I've been serving Wikipedia for a few months now, and I wish to be granted the Founder right. If given this, I would most certainly use it to desysop admins who disagree with me and send simple cases of edit warring directly to ArbCom.

Questions for the candidate

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Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as a founder. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. How do you intend to found Wikipedia?
A: I've been working on that, and I'm pretty sure it's impossible to travel back in time to found a wiki, so we'll just pretend I was there from the beginning.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: I fixed a typo once, but I can't find the diff.
3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
A: Yes.
Additional question from Hahc21
4. Do you find your Ninja skills beneficial for the project? How do you use them in dispute resolution?
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Additional question from John F. Lewis
5. You say you wish to de-sysop those whom disagree with you. Have you at all considered de-crating, de-stewarding, de-checkusering and de-oversighting yet?
A: Yes, along with de-boting, de-researchering, de-autoconfirmeding, and de-registeredusering, but I didn't want to overwhelm or scare people.
Would you in addition remove the flag from your fellow founder (should this request succeed) Jimbo Wales?
Not if he's a good little boy.
Additional question from &
6. If I use my secret sysadmin powers to make you a founder, will you promptly desysop Reaper Eternal (talk · contribs) for deleting Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Example? — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 00:59, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A:Yes, but I'll probably de-sysadmin you right after.
You'll need shell access for that. Shall we take this to Meta, or should whichever of us is secretly Tim Starling reveal (him|her)self? — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 01:05, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sudo make me a founder and de-sysadmin self immediately after.
Additional question from John F. Lewis
7. If given founder rights, Would you promptly give me CU and I can therefore assist you in taking down all of these users whom break, disagree or disregard all of your amazing and accurate policies?
A: Go do some canvassing for me and I will.
Will do. Right on it Sir FrigidNinja!
Additional question from Cameron11598
8 Would you be willing to replace Arbcom with WP:WIKI INQUSITION?
A: Nobody expects the Wiki Inquisition!
Additional question from Steel1943
9. What just happened? Should I vote Neutral? Steel1943 (talk) 05:35, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A: Why on earth would you want to do that?
Additional question from User:B
10. Do you subscribe to the enlightened absolutism or tyrannical despot theory of founderism? If selected for Foundership, will you rule with an iron fist and use random bannings and arbitrary deletions of featured articles to keep the lackeys in line? --B (talk) 13:01, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A: I will rule with a mithril fist as an enlightened tyrannical absolutist despot! Beginning in one month's time, a featured article will be deleted for every violation of WP:MOS, and every editor who forgets to sign their posts will be, not just banned, but BANISHED!


General comments

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RfFs for this user:

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review his contributions before commenting.

Discussion

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  • As everyone who has created an account, or for that matter all 500 million people who have read a Wikipedia article in the last month have all found their way to Wikipedia, shouldn't we give them all this right? ϢereSpielChequers 03:58, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It's requests for FOUNDership, not FINDership. FrigidNinja 04:06, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
That's right, for everyone who has found Wikipedia. ϢereSpielChequers 04:44, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support
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  1. I'm honored to be the first support. We can close it now, and make me the co-founder. --Tryptofish (talk) 00:14, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support, per my standards.  — Statυs (talk, contribs) 00:23, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support, We are a big wiki and we need a second founder like all the wikis need more than one Steward. We already have a group set up for you too. Also per Status' standards. John F. Lewis (talk) 00:26, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support Sorry, I meant to support. Thank you for promising to put an ad banner for my web design company, Main Page Web Design, at the top of every page and divert all 404s to me as well. ♥♥♥ I love you !!! ♥♥♥ —Soap— 00:48, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Pile-on support, per Tryptofish. --Tryptofish (talk) 00:48, 1 April 2013 (UTC) — Tryptofish (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
  6. -Support, per Tryptofish -- Example (talk) 00:54, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  7. This is exactly the kind of leadership we need. Gamaliel (talk) 01:41, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support That being said, the userright is "Founder" not "Founders" My support is contingent on an agreement to take on Jimmy Wales in the octagon to determine who gets to retain the userright. Ryan Vesey 02:06, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Let the monomachy commence!--Auric talk 02:22, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support on the condition that I am granted founder rights too.--Cyberpower Chat|List of good deeds 03:07, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support Standards for founders are too high, and jimboship is no big deal. --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 03:33, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support //iXavier <talk/edits/logs> 03:59, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support if I am given candy and brownies --Cameron11598 (Converse) 04:01, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Candy and brownies were provided so my support is confirmed. Cameron11598 (Converse) 04:17, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Infinitely Oppose per the supportive neutral stances posed by the nominator. Steel1943 (talk) 05:40, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Support? Mediran (t • c) 06:06, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  15. This one has my strong support - because, I mean, WTF else am I doing today? :) Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 08:40, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    I assume that you're speaking in your capacity as a Foundation employee here? — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 16:19, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Support Only if you'll make me a sandwich. ;) —stay (sic)! 11:57, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Support Because if the two have an epic lightsaber duel on Mustafar, and the loser gets burned in lava and turned into the Sith Lord, I can join the dark side because they have fresh cookies. ZappaOMati 15:05, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Support Sure, why not Vacation9 19:59, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Support There's a very serious founder shortage that has been willfully ignored for months, if not years. The Rule of Two is a good model of governance. --BDD (talk) 20:03, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose
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  1. Strongest possible oppose Insufficient use of desysopping summaries. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 00:39, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    #INFINITELY STRONG OPPOSE Whoops wrong candidate! —Soap— 00:47, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    See you at RFAR, Soap. So glaring an error clearly qualifies as conduct unbecoming. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 00:50, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    #Oppose - I don't wanna see a war between Frigid and Jimbo which leads to an epic lightsaber duel on Mustafar between the two, which leads to the loser getting burned and turned into a Sith Lord. Afterwards, the winner goes into exile on Tatooine, while a random non-sysop gets trained by the winner, creating the Rebel Alliance to overthrow the empire created by the losing founder. ZappaOMati 02:43, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Why on Earth would you not want to see that?! — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 03:57, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Dude, I don't wanna get killed in the Great Sysop Purge when trying to protect the sysops from getting killed by the Sith Lord destroying the Village pump! ZappaOMati 04:02, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    This is the reason why. —stay (sic)! 12:01, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Well then, in that case... ZappaOMati 15:05, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Wait, Jimbo's my father?!?!?! FrigidNinja 15:17, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Oppose Jimbo is by far a better ninja. Regards, — Moe Epsilon 04:22, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Oppose Edit count has not been posted. Reach Out to the Truth 04:51, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Flat out Oppose. Dear God, please let this nightmare end as soon as possible. April fools is past and gone, and you're all the fools for carrying on. Humblesnore (talk) 12:43, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    What do you mean "past and gone"? Still 11 hours left. FrigidNinja 12:44, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    It's an old thing from England, FrigidNinja - tradition was that you could only play April Fool jokes up until midday - and after that time, what I said above is what would usually be thrown at you if you tried to fool someone. :D Humblesnore (talk) 15:07, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Oppose.Is this an April Fool's Joke? This will be gone by midnight.Kj plma (talk) 14:30, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral
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  1. Neutral - Require more examples of how bureaucrats will be treated. If they will also be desysoped when they disagree, I will support. CycloneGU (talk) 01:46, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Neutral because yo mamma. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 03:07, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
What? No love for papa? ZappaOMati 03:21, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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