Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-33191559-20170206132824/@comment-28909036-20170206220143

I side with Kocka and Tupka here. Making "give me admin" as your first edit is never a good idea, and would be rejected on wikis with active admins. This thread is the perfect example of such.

Quote from that thread's first response from an admin:


 * "Your first and only edit on the wiki is simply asking to be admin. You've been a member on the site for less than a day and have not contributed at all. Given that this is the case, what makes you think you have the ability to represent the community?"

Keep in mind that this is from an established community, so not perfectly applicable to this situation, but the basic point still stands. Make edits, contribute, use the forums, do something beyond asking for adminship before asking for adminship to prove you might do a good job as admin.

[http://myimmortal.wikia.com/wiki/Message_Wall:WTPF/User_talk_archive#Hello? This] is an example of how to do it correctly, in my opinion.


 * "I've also gone ahead and made you an admin since you have prior Wikia experience and have made recent edits."

And that's just adminship (without even asking), I didn't become a crat until this thread:


 * "Bureaucrats are the only users who can give others rights and I feel, with your tendency to be not all that active we need another crat. I'm requesting myself for those rights since I am the only other admin. I'm going to consult with you before any promotions, but if you become permanently inactive (or enter a hiatus similar to the one that just ended) we need someone else with those rights."

Keep in mind that this was the judgement of one admin, and I am a bit biased since the user asking for rights is my old account (although the same applies to Aztrosist).