Yugipedia:Requests for adminship
Editors may use this page to nominate other editors or themselves for adminship.
Things to consider before nominating
Before nominating an editor, you should think about the following:
- Does this editor want to become an administrator?
- What would this editor do as an administrator?
- Has this editor been a member for long, and are they familiar with policies?
- Has this editor made significant contributions?
- How well does this editor handle conflicts?
- Has this editor been banned or blocked, or caused trouble before?
- Does this editor get involved in community discussions, such as the ones at Forum:Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki Community Discussion?
Generally, it is good etiquette to ask an editor before nominating them for adminship, since it lets them know that they may be nominated, and allows them to decline the offer - there are editors who do not want to be administrators, for any of a variety of reasons.
Before nominating yourself, you should think about the following as well as the above.
- There have been thousands of editors on this site, but only about twenty of them are administrators. Plenty of useful editors are not administrators, and plenty of work can be done without using the administrator tools.
- Why do you want to become an administrator? Adminship is not a status symbol, but just an extra set of tools that allow certain types of work to be more easily performed.
- Should you wait for someone else to nominate you?
If you are nominating someone for a second time, you may want to wait several months and look over how much that user has changed in that time.
Process
To be nominated, an editor must have an account and must not currently be banned. Other than that, there is no minimum requirement, although editors are advised to consider the items in the above section before nominating themselves or others.
Create a page using the below createbox. After that, other editors will comment on whether they believe the editor should be an administrator or not. Editors may also ask the candidate questions. There is no exact time for how long a request will be open, but it should be about two to three weeks. By that time, a bureaucrat will review the nomination and determine based on the discussion if the user will be given administrator access. If it is obvious that an editor does not have the community's approval to become an administrator, the discussion may be closed earlier or by an administrator.
The decision is not simply based on the number of votes, though a good rule of thumb is that candidates should typically have much higher than 50% support. Rather, the result is mostly determined based on the reasoning provided by editors when they support or oppose a nomination, and any comments with a strong rationale thus receive more weight than simple "Support"/"Oppose" comments. Other than that, any editor in good standing may comment on any nomination.
Nominate a candidate
Replace "Name" with the name of the candidate. If the candidate has been nominated before, replace "1" with the number of the current nomination.
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Current requests
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Do not manually add requests to this list. Please use the above createbox.
Old requests
Old requests are kept on archive and can be viewed at Yugipedia:Closed requests for adminship.
