Forum:New Administration

Currently, as most if not all people know, we only have one (semi)active admin on the wiki, and yet there's a massive influx of vandalism everyday. Many pages need to be deleted, some vandals need to be blocked, and the Recent Changes needs to be monitored. This is too much to do for one admin, so we need to add more users to the administration board; however, our admin is only a sysop and does not have the ability to promote others to newer ranks. So, we've had to go to Wikia Staff for help.

Just last week, MinecraftRogue set up an adoption request for the wiki, since no admins were on at the time. Eventually, more people added their own requests to his until we had a total of five people wanting to adopt our wiki. And so we waited patiently for staff response.

Brandon Rhea responded to our adoption request(s) on August 10:. Since so many people put up the request, and since our wiki is not technically eligible for adoption, we have to go by different means to get new administrators. That's what we're doing here: we are creating a community discussion to determine who will be our new administrators, and we will send the results to Special:Contact with a link to this forum. Staff will then give admin rights to those users we decide upon and we will have our new administrators. Our goal is to have around five admins, with two of those being bureaucrats.

As far as commenting and requesting go, only registered users may comment in the "support", "oppose" or "neutral" sections. Non-registered users or editors who are not logged in are welcome to participate in the "discussion" sections. The requirements for proposing yourself to be an adminstrator are:
 * You must have an account, and that account must be older than 4 days old.
 * You must be able to be an active contributor from here on out.
 * In addition to the point above, it would be a good idea to become familiar with your fellow contributors, as you will need to so that everyone may collaborate more efficiently. Plus, the more of the community you know now, the more trust you may be given later.

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The Exterminator for administrator and bureaucrat
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I have had an account on Wikia for almost 3 years since Sept. 2009 and have been an admin since Dec. 2009, so I have plenty of experience and I am familiar on how to run a wiki and use administrative privileges. I know how to deal with many situations, and can help my fellow admins in dealing with situations they may have as well. I know where my responsibilities lie, and I always do my best to benefit the wiki and the community. If I am granted administrative status and after we have thoroughly cleaned our wiki, I plan to continue helping our community by showing newcomers the ropes, as well as helping out in any way that I am needed. My main goal is to make this wiki a better place.