User blog comment:Sannse/I Want to Be an Admin/@comment-452-20140515201609/@comment-31924693-20140526151826

I have only three times promoted somebody to admin; in none of the cases was it because they asked.


 * On the Inktank wiki which I founded, I promoted somebody because I recognised from his username that he was genuinely interested in building the community.


 * On the His Dark Materials wiki, having adopted it because the previous bureaucrat had become inactive, I promoted the only other active user to bureaucrat because she had a good track record.


 * On the Beatles wiki, I likewise promoted a user to admin because she had a good track record (and was a bureaucrat on the Russian Beatles wiki). A couple of months later, I promoted her to bureaucrat.