BattleTechWiki:2010 Founder's Awards

Please post your nominations for the various Founder's awards here for discussion. Post not only the Editor's or Admin's name, but also why you feel that person should be the awardee. Nominations will close on the 16th of January, with Nicjansma announcing after he has made his decisions. Negative responses are not solicited, as these are only for nominations.

Four out of the five Founder's Awards are up for nomination; the Founder's Consistent Service Award is completely left up to Nic. The criteria/descriptions of the awards can be found here.

Please post your nominations under the appropriate sub-heading.

Founder's Outstanding Member of the Year Award

• I nominate both User:Revanche and User:Scaletail for providing steady, high-quality contributions. They're the two longest-serving yet still active members, clearly among the cornerstones (or is that bedrock) of this community. Frabby 11:20, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

• I'd like to second these nominations. Either (or both) members are worthy recipients.--Mbear 13:16, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

• I nominate Frabby for truly meeting consistent and logical service to the community. A long-time Editor and an Admin for well over two years, of the Admins he's been present non-stop (from my perspective). He can be counted upon to play a logical devil's advocate and is often the voice of reason, tamping down any spark of conflict before it can flare.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:13, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
• I further nominate Mbear as another Outstanding Member of Sarna. Based on his actions as an Editor, he was selected by the Admins to join them in overseeing the site and since then he too has been a constant presence, getting both involved in discussions and planning to improve the site, as well as being a force of nature when it comes to editing. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:13, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
• I also nominate User:Scaletail (or second it, anyway) for the Founder's Outstanding Member of the Year Award. He has a long-term presence here (4 years now) and his knowledge and critique of policies have been put to great use here, especially in the past year. He has had to play the 'hammer' in a few instances that solicited unwarranted responses, but his actions were justified and necessary. I think the intent of the Outstanding Member award is to recognize those that don't perfectly fit into any one category or -when overshadowed in specific areas- should be recognized for the overall and continuing efforts. I see awardees of this ribbon to be those who's absence would be felt and Scaletail definitely meets that marker. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:13, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Founder's Superior Editor of the Year Award

• I nominate both User:ClanWolverine101 and User:Mbear for their high-quality edits. While other editors often take a quantity-over-quality approach, they created several well-researched articles and, more importantly, are among the few community members to make an effort in copyediting and improving other articles. Frabby 11:20, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
• I'd nominate User:ClanWolverine101 and User:Doneve for always being there with the image.--Mbear 13:16, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Founder's Exceptional Ambassador of the Year Award

• Drawing a blank here. Most registered editors here are active on CBT.com as well. The BattleTech community at large seems to be increasingly aware of BTW, and using it as a reference. Some detractors will always dismiss a wiki for being a wiki, of course, and there's no denying that the massive quantity of articles here includes some with quality issues. The best "Ambassador" for BTW, in my opinion, is he who strives to improve BTW with good quality articles and edits, to further establish it as the BT site to check for... anything BT, really. Frabby 11:20, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

• I can't think of anyone I'd nominate for this award.--Mbear 13:16, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

• I nominate Frabby, though the award's most well-spoken detractor, for the role he has played in keeping the wiki fresh in the minds of users at CBT.com. The various threads he either maintains or participates in casually mention as being valuable for wiki research and his defense of the project is consistently above board and non-emotional (and non-cynical, which I myself need to improve upon). While the award itself may not need to be awarded in the future, I think its validity to the CBT community has been well-supported and -promoted by Frabby. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:13, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Founder's Honorable Mention Award

• I nominate User:Nicjansma. He's running the show on the technical real-world side, provides the hosting, laid all the groundwork, and was humble enough not to nominate himself for an award so far. Frabby 11:20, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

• Seconded.--Mbear 13:16, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

• I nominate Doneve for this award. His high levels of research and data entry have added value to many otherwise lackluster articles and his efforts had really improved to the point that they rarely need editing to meet established and accepted standards. His datamining has resulted in a lot of unit articles having information (such as deployments and references) that should be standard across the board. He's also enthusiastic in regards to taking correction from others and incorporating that new direction into improving his further efforts. He has also had good ideas to improve the value of the various template infoboxes and remained involved in those improvements. There's no doubt, too, that many an article has been improved by his images.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:13, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
• I also nominate ClanWolverine101 for this award. Actually, I write this with a bit of jealousy, for he has written from scratch more than a few articles with such depth of content and in keeping with the various policies, that the editing of these articles have been a breeze and the articles provide an instant download of valuable content. His writing is pure, in the sense that he makes himself an expert on whatever subject he tackles and the ease in which it is read makes me excited to step away from my editing 'responsibilities' and get back to doing what he /is/ doing. A strong candidate for this award.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:13, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
  • While I agree with regards to the reasons you give, these (for me) were the reason to suggest him for the "Superior Editor of the Year" award instead; ClanWolverine101 clearly deserves either or both of these by virtue of his quality edits and articles so if he doesn't get the SEotY I second the Honorable Mention nomination. Frabby 23:20, 3 January 2011 (UTC)