User blog:Henry Hudson GC/Henry Hudson's Perspective on the Moderator Candidates

Hi.

TheYounglings
TheYounglings is a good kid, I guess. He has caused some trouble with his romantic shenanigans, but he's gotten over them. He's been here for four months now, which, in my opinion, is satisfactory for a discussions moderator candidate. TheYounglings also has over 2,000 edits now, which is also a fair number. However, I was just scrolling through his contributions list, and I've noticed that he likes to add categories one at a time: each in a separate edit. Here's an example:

https://big-nate-comments.fandom.com/wiki/November_Election_News?diff=prev&oldid=205276

https://big-nate-comments.fandom.com/wiki/November_Election_News?diff=prev&oldid=205277

https://big-nate-comments.fandom.com/wiki/November_Election_News?diff=prev&oldid=205278

https://big-nate-comments.fandom.com/wiki/November_Election_News?diff=prev&oldid=205279

https://big-nate-comments.fandom.com/wiki/November_Election_News?diff=prev&oldid=205280

https://big-nate-comments.fandom.com/wiki/November_Election_News?diff=prev&oldid=205281

That's six edits for a change that can easily be done in one edit. Personally, I don't trust this dishonesty, and therefore, TheYounglings is not my preferred candidate.

Ak-Elfs
Ak-Elfs is very active, as many people have noticed. In under 1.5 months, he has acheived almost 2,000 edits, with a solid 64.15% of them being article edits (as of 9/19). I've looked through the edits; although they're not the highest of quality, they are still somewhat beneficial to the wiki.

Unfortunately, Ak Elfs has also been dishonest with edits at some point. P-dog and I discovered that he was uselessly manipulating categories to obtain more edits.

Other than that, Ak-Elfs is really nice to people, and he fits in the community perfectly.

GarfieldMN
Some of you may know that I tend to judge based on wiki generations. I do. (lol)

GarfieldMN is a good candidate, in my opinion. As far as I'm aware, he hasn't been dishonest with edits. I was just scrolling through his contributions, and his edits are fairly high quality.

I always choose based on what I think is best for the wiki, and, to be honest, I don't think a new Gen 3 staff member is good. We're deep into Gen 4, and if we want our wiki to advance, then we need Gen 4 representatives. We're way past Gen 3 now. If GarfieldMN was running for moderator maybe 4-6 months ago, then I might have supported him. But, in my opinion, it's too late now for a new Gen 3. GarfieldMN won't be my mod pick for this election.

Summary
Overall, I guess I don't really support any of the mod candidates that much. However, the wiki is advancing, and I do think that we should get a new moderator. That's why I've been supporting Ak Elfs. He has more potential than the other two combined, in my opinion.

He was dishonest once, but I've had a history of dishonestly as well, so have other staff members (P-dog, Spyroclub). I see mistakes as learning opportunities, not failure. So...

Go Ak-Elfs GC.