Wikipedia:Requests for adminship

Here you can make a request for adminship. See Wikipedia:Administrators for what this entails and for a list of current admins.

Guidelines

Current Wikipedia policy is to grant administrator status to anyone who has been an active Wikipedia contributor for a while and is generally a known and trusted member of the community. Most users seem to agree that the more administrators there are the better.

Wikipedians are more likely to support the candidacy of people who have been logged-on contributors for some months and contributed to and created a variety of articles over that time without often getting into conflicts with other users.

If you want to become an administrator then add your name to the list below. Any user can comment on your request—they might express reservations (because, for example, they suspect you will abuse your new-found powers, or if you've joined very recently), but hopefully they will approve and say lovely things about you.

If there is general agreement that someone who requests adminship should be given it, then a developer will make it so and record that fact at Wikipedia:Recently created admins.

Requests for adminship

Ugen64

• ugen64 I'd like adminship, mainly because of all those vandalisms I see and have to correct (usually by writing a stub, because I am like that). I've been here for about, oh, 6 months, but I've only contributed significantly for about 4 months. I've asked once before, but was rejected.

• oppose, but only because you usually need more than 863 contributions. I have still not gotten adminship and i have much more than 2500 edits. Everyone realizes that it isnt "based" on edit count, but obviously someoen with a small number of contributions will not get adminship. Alexandros 00:31, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Adminship is not granted by edit count. silsor 00:36, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
  • His number of contributions is fine; 863 edits is not a tiny number, and is not that great of a reason to oppose him being a sysop. -- Mattworld 01:22, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • But we just approved for adminship someone with < 300 article edits in Pakaran. Fuzheado 02:06, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • He didnt nominate himself Alexandros

Nominations for adminship

Note: Nominations have to be accepted by the user in question. If you nominate a user, please also leave a message on their talk page and inform them about their listing on this page, and ask them to reply here if they accept the nomination.

Requests and nominations for de-adminship

If you're requesting your own de-adminship, you can do so private communication with a developer, should you wish to do so. If you're requesting de-adminship of someone else, you can do so here, but please first try to discuss the issue directly with the admin in question.

Note that there are alternatives to removing sysop privileges: a "clarification" or "request" from Jimbo is more likely than something so drastic.

The Cunctator

The discussion previously listed here is still active as of 4th December 2003 11am UTC. However I have moved it to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/The Cunctator due to the length of this page and the fact the discussion had drifted away from the primary purpose of this page, which is about granting people sysopship. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 10:51, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Andre Engels

Although I still stand behind this project, I also notice lately that me and the 'people in power' have clearly different ideas about what an encyclopedia is, or at least what a good encyclopedia is. Rather than continuing to clash with them, I prefer to leave this place for WikipediaNL.

I wish you luck, and regret that I do not feel able to cooperate on this wonderful project further. Andre Engels 08:40, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)

A matter of regret. Good luck Andre. Martin 00:30, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)