Forum:Question About Adminship

Hello I have a question about (co-)adminship.

Since a while I've given a contributor of 'my' Wiki a trial for adminship. He really wanted it and asked me before. I had my doubts about it so I gave him a trial instead of making him a permanent admin.

Since this is the first time I have another admin for the Wiki, I'd like to ask some advice, because atm there is a bit of struggle between me and him. He thinks he's right and I think I'm right blablabla

Anyway, I gave him the trial so he could show me what he can do. Since then, he's been locking pages, deleting pictures (which were, imo, both not necessary) and just now he editted the sitenotice which I thought was perfectly fine! It was two lines and he made it 5, which is (imo) way too big. So I reverted the edit and later explained why. Though the atmosphere has gotten a little tense since then.

Basically what he has done... well, let's just say me and him don't think the same way about the Wiki. He gives me the idea he wants to change things to the way he wants (removed pictures he considered to be "unjustful"; editted a sitenotice that was imo, fine). That's not why I made him admin. I don't made him admin to tell me what pictures should not be on the site, or to tell me how the sitenotice should look. I made him admin to show me if he can be of help in admin-ing the wiki.

Anyway, I reverted most of his edits and explained him why and now he flames me for being the boss and criticizes the rules.

To put it down into a couple of points:
 * It's just me and him as admins. Me vs him most of the time. One likes an idea, the other doesn't... that's difficult.
 * Atm, I just think he should not be admin. He wants to be a founder, to run a site. Not to work together. When he has an idea in mind he seems to think it must be done. If not, he doesn;t like or even seems to take it personal.
 * He doesn't contribute to articles at all... I really want him to show me what he knows about the subject of the Wiki.

What do you guys think? -- Zantam03 ( Talk ) 14:09, June 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Erm, well personally I wouldn't have made him admin without knowing his editing style beforehand. But you'll have to settle it now, I advise talking it over rather than wheel wars. Good luck. -- 14:16, June 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree with Pcj. This new admin should have been told he was a probationary admin and that if he causes disagreement, the admin powers are gone. If he was just locking, it wouldn't be so bad, but deleting images makes them hard to restore. I'd cut him off now and say he can make a case for getting admin powers back, but it sounds like he abused them. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 9:12 AM PST 11 Jun 2010


 * Hmm he's not the type to vandalize. And he knows he's a probationary admin.--- Zantam03 ( Talk ) 19:26, June 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Just because he is not a vandal does not make him admin material. -- 19:29, June 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yea that's true. --- Zantam03 ( Talk ) 19:30, June 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok First, an admin is someone you can trust, you simply dont appoint someone as an admin unless they have experiece on the wikia, or they have a strong friendship with the founder, or they no how to handle synax well. Second if an admin cannot listen to the founder, or if he is creating things that you do not want then you simply take off his admin status or bann him.--Andrew Schlieffen Executive Administrator of Modern Wikia and Valkyrie Movie Wikia 19:54, June 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok thanks for the replies. I was a bit unsure on how to handle this because we're just 2 and there's the consensus rule which is hard to apply to when there's just 2. These answers clear things up though, thanks -- Zantam03 ( Talk ) 20:44, June 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * I have been watching the situation for a few days, and I would agree that he is not ready to be an administrator. He has some skewed viewpoints on things, and he doesn't have a solid understanding of quite a few things as well. It's not necessarily bad, but these should be learned before becoming an administrator. Max21 20:50, June 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply. -- Zantam03 ( Talk ) 20:55, June 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, you could always give him rollback and possibly some other powers? That way, he can still help, but does not interfere with you design. You could always try and solidify a senior position within the wiki for said person, like where one would contact admin(s) other (senior) non-staff wiki user? Just a thought. Attack Rhino 02:56, June 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, you could always give him rollback and possibly some other powers? That way, he can still help, but does not interfere with you design. You could always try and solidify a senior position within the wiki for said person, like where one would contact admin(s) other (senior) non-staff wiki user? Just a thought. Attack Rhino 02:56, June 17, 2010 (UTC)