Board Thread:Résumés/@comment-28083312-20160916040930

Hello! My name is Alex, and I’m applying for Content Mod! Usually people don’t apply for such a high position, so there is an election about whether I should even be allowed to apply at all. It is taking place here. For this reason I will not include a Poll here until the first one is finished & this Résumé is approved.

Now that that’s over with, lets get into the Résumé itself. I do hope you like it.

Ursuul, a Story

Ursuul is a name taken from a book, about Prince named Dorian Ursuul. After inheriting the throne, he tried, but failed, to turn his dark kingdom into one of light. He became insane as a result of his failure, & his kingdom slipped back into the depths of depravity & evil.

I take this as my name because I know you cannot win every battle. In fact, you will not even win most battles, & I am content with this. I accept the fact that life will not always be kind to you, & I strive to do well, to be successful, & to be kind in spite of this.

As I went through my life I discovered a game, a simple game, a distraction from life itself, called Diep.io. I liked this game, Team DM was my favorite Game Mode. It was my favorite because of the tendency of successful teams to spawn trap the losing team, making it almost impossible to grow & to prosper. This challenge excited me, because though it was reminiscent of life it was simply a game, an escape, a pastime. In the pursuit of advancing my skills in this game, I sought out a knowledge base where some enterprising souls might have catalogued the upgrades, the attributes, where I might learn.

This is how I discovered this Wikia. It was still somewhat young, yet old enough to be perfect for my purposes. I relied on it so much that I began to notice areas where there was no knowledge, pages where there were no strategies, & Vandalism. Seeing this plight, & having information readily available from playing the game often, I decided to put forth effort into the growth & protection of this Wiki, to expand the online knowledge base, & to make it a helpful tool for anyone who needed it as I did. Four Pages I made, Base, Invisibility, Mega Trapper, & Overtrapper. The first two to this day consist almost entirely of my foundational edits, & were perfected by others who came afterward. Nearly (but not quite) Five Hundred Edits lay under my belt, & about 2,000 from my entire Wikia Career, easily classifying me as a Veteran Editor here.

After School Began, I had less & less time to contribute here, & eventually went on hiatus altogether. As a project for school, & for my local Book Club, & because I loved the Series, I decided to scrape together what little time I had left, & put it into creating my own Wikia, the Rings of the Master Wikia. This was immensely challenging to me, but luckily I already had the outlines of 10 pages on my Laptop. All I had to do was copy paste, & I would have my Start.

However, I quickly ran into problems. The features I wished to implement required that complex & confusing tasks be done, mainly in the form of written code in languages I did not comprehend. Yet I was not daunted. I researched the means to learn about JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets, Templates, HTML, the works. I also reached out to my father, who works in IT, Tonn Lenk, who is a coding wizard, & the Open Source Wiki. From them I taught myself how to do what I wanted. I successfully implemented Custom JavaScript on my Wiki; I successfully implemented Custom user Tags; I established my Theme; I built many infrastructural Templates; & finally I put forth twenty pages of pure content, ending with two for Administration. This I did entirely alone, & in the span of only two weeks.

With my newfound knowledge, I recalled this old Wiki, among others, & sought to recruit contributors from here & elsewhere. I’m ashamed to say I failed in that regard, but it did bring something I didn’t expect; questioners. Several people came to me asking for help on their Wiki, from ME, a novice! But it was at that moment that I realized I was not a novice anymore, I had skills to offer, & help to be desired.

This brings me finally to the reason for my application. I know the Staff somewhat well, many of whom I consider friends, & who I have worked beside before. Because I have received so much from this Wiki, I feel obligated to give it back in some way. To help it grow as it helped my Diep.io & coding skills grow. For this reason I come to apply for a Staff position, where my newfound skills may be utilized well. Because such skills would be wasted in Discussions Mod position or lower, I have humbly requested of this community the right to apply for a higher one; Content Mod.

This concludes my Résumé, & I will end it with a (relatively) short list of pros & cons, as stipulated by the Staff page.

 Pros 


 * Adequate Mastery of Cascading Style Sheets to become a future Admin of considerable worth.
 * Long History on this Wiki
 * Integration into the Community
 * I know many of the Staff & more of the non-staff, so I will be right at home in my new position.
 * Responsibility, as proven by
 * My edit count
 * My time spent here
 * My clean record
 * My initiative to create my own Wiki.
 * Comprehension
 * Having created my own Wiki & contributed to this one, I know what it is like to invest yourself into a project. You will not have to worry about me vandalizing this place, since I have been on the receiving end of their nuisance & stand with you in the fight against them.
 * JavaScript Mastery
 * Having implemented it on my Wiki, and since it is not even yet implemented here, I could prove an immense asset. Unless Tonn Lenk knows his way around it, I may be the only one here who does, & can open up a whole new realm of customization.
 * HTML Mastery
 * This is quite a common asset, but it is nothing to laugh at. I can use it to implement special formats here that the average user could not, & I can do stuff like write strikeout text isn’t this kewl wow fix pages when the Visual Editor is having problems.
 * Template Creativity
 * I can create most types of templates you might need, just ask me.
 * Short History of removing Vandalism
 * There are only a handful of people more familiar with the Undo Button than me. A Rollback position for me would be superfluous.
 * Flexibility & Quick Learning
 * I will be honest, there are things I simply don’t know how to do yet. But you can bet your money that I can learn how in a pinch.
 * I created my own freaking Wiki!
 * I know I’m bragging too much about it, but seriously. I know what it’s like to be a Bureaucrat. Being a Content Mod will be a breeze.

 Cons 


 * Very Little Free Time
 * I won’t be able to be back full force until around Christmas, & even then I won’t be hitting the editing levels I had during the Summer. I will be a distant Admin, but I answer all my messages. It may be days or even a week before I respond, but by god I will respond.
 * Easily Sick
 * I have a medical condition that I would rather keep personal, but because of it I can easily get sick & be out for a week at a time, & then I will be busy the entire week afterward catching up on school work. I could drop off the face of the earth for a worryingly long time, completely at random.
 * Avid Procrastinator
 * This isn’t so much of an issue here, since I enjoy being here, but if I start to think of things as work, then I may end up avoiding it for periods of time, which is a massive character flaw of mine.
 * Inability to utilize the full breadth of my skills
 * Because Content Mods can’t edit the CSS or Common.js, I can’t use my newfound knowledge of these coding languages for the betterment of the Community until I am promoted to Admin. 