Adoption:The Sanctuary Network

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'''What is your username? ''' X20ArchAngel09x

Please link to the wiki here: https://sanctuary.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanctuary_Network

'''How many edits have you made on that wiki? '''I have personally made 1,535 edits on this wiki so far.

'''How many days/months have you been editing there? '''Since January 15th, 2012 (over 8 years).

'''On the Special Pages → Special:ListAdmins when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it? '''

SaganamiFan was the last admin active four years ago on February 13, 2016.

Any other information: 

My proposal:

The wiki I want to adopt is based on the groundbreaking hit SyFy TV show called "Sanctuary". Since the show got cancelled in May 2012, the user contribution activity on this wiki has steadily declined for years to almost nothing currently. I've practically been the only user still active and adding massive amounts of content (i.e including creating 10's of several pages, adding episode background info, revamping page layouts, and uploading hundreds of photos etc.) on the site for the last year or two, especially this February and past January. Link: https://sanctuary.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/X20ArchAngel09x


 * For reference of my quality of work, I'm also a current Admin on the Chesapeake Shores (TV Show) wiki and you can see how I've built that site from scratch / bare bones over the course of the last month making it flourish with tons of material and pages. I'm the prime formatter of the site: providing templates, source code, adding css to modify site design, formatting page layouts, creating hundreds of pages, adding photos, videos, etc. I say this humbly, at least 96% of what you see there is something I have made. Link: https://chesapeake-shores.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/X20ArchAngel09x

For the Sanctuary wiki, I'd like to have bureaucrat rights in addition to becoming an Admin. I've currently been trying to make the site more user friendly and easy to navigate and making pages look better. I've noticed I can make some improvements in site navigation by getting rid of extra redirect pages as well as sprucing up the top navigation bar a little by adding a few more relevant drop links, but I can't delete un-needed pages and files etc. or access the nav bar without Admin rights.

Sanctuary is one of my favorite shows and it'd be nice if at least one admin was still active even this far out. Unfortunately, the Sanctuary wiki seems to have changed hands a couple times; the founder is non-existent (they created the wiki then abandoned it a month later when the show first started before the fifth episode even aired; leading a wiki admin to transfer bureaucrat and admin power to a user who hasn't posted since July 2013), 1 other bureaucrat/admin has been gone since 2009, and the only two current/absent admins haven't been around since 2014 and 2016. I did make a recent request on SaganamiFan's talk page (being that they were the last admin to post) asking to be promoted to an admin, but I highly doubt anything will come of that as they haven't contributed in 4 years so far, so I'm not sure if they'll ever login again to see my message. Link: https://sanctuary.fandom.com/wiki/Special:ListUsers/sysop

As for other site users, there have only been 2 other considered recent registered users in which their contributions are in essence negligible. The user "FreezeFreak" is brand spanking new with 6 edits (5 edits were spent uploading a single photo file each edit to the site and the sixth edit was to add the pics to a single episode gallery). They popped in on January 24th, 2020, joining the wiki, and haven't returned. The other is from a longtime user "Revan's Exile" who has only made a total of 45 edits since they joined the wiki in 2009. Of their edits, they are basically nit-picky about certain characters' info (monitoring user contributions on a handful of pages rather than adding new material themselves across the wiki), of which a few edits were to my character contributions specifically as that user wasn't aware of certain info and thought I was adding something incorrect when I wasn't. They pop in briefly every couple of years; their last activity being April 28th, 2017 before showing up out of the blue on January 7th, 2020 to make a slight tweak to my content that I added because I opted for a writing out a broad age description rather than using a "dash" between the age numbers; the user leaving behind the edit note "Be concise" and they haven't been back since. Other than that, only two other semi-recent registered users have contributed to the wiki back in mid-August 2019 (6 months ago) and before that it was 1 user in June 2018 and another in January 2018. All of these users having under 10-20 edits total each. The rest of all registered users who have edited were at the very latest seen contributing in 2017 and years prior. Link: https://sanctuary.fandom.com/wiki/Special:ListUsers

In regards to making a chat/blog, it would be a waste of time and a lost cause for me to create one to reach out to see if anyone else has any objection or validation to my wiki adoption as users on this site historically don't participate in them nor create them very frequently, and most importantly, there isn't a sustained group of current active users with large sums of contributions around now to interact with it anyways; to have their say in the matter. Since the founding of the wiki in 2008, only 8 blogs have been created (the last of which was posted in 2017) where only 4 of those 8 have ever been replied to; only 1 blog out of those 4 had a decent amount of replies as the topic centered around a controversial writer decision in an episode as users wanted to chit-chat about it two weeks after the episode aired. Link: https://sanctuary.fandom.com/wiki/Blog:Recent_posts

There is still a natural audience for this show as all the time I see people still say it's one of their favorites and or they just got into it (as seen on social media between fans with other fans and fans with the actors themselves). Like most websites, it's just that people would rather read the material displayed than spend the time to add to it. The show itself is in practicality a stepping stone for the Canadian TV and film industry, springing from the creators of the Stargate franchise, featuring many actors and crew who have gone on and participated in several other well-known projects and blockbuster movies. As always with TV Network sites, once a show has ended, it eventually gets removed completely from their site to make room for newer shows. That leaves this wiki as the only main source of info reference on this show.

Based on the cumulative points listed above, I'd like to formally request to adopt the wiki to the fullest extent possible please. I'm the only user who is currently tending to the wiki and willing to put large-scale amounts of time and effort into contributing to it these days, sadly. Thank you for your time and consideration. X20ArchAngel09x (talk) 00:39, February 17, 2020 (UTC)