Forum:Leaving

Should I leave this wiki? I've done 11,600 edits, but they absolutely refuse to give me any sort of admin rights. Hockeyben 17:33, January 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * Let me first say, If I was him I would have. But that doesn't mean he has to do it. I don't know what all you edited to get such a high count, but article wise you made a impact cause they jumped during your time by over 800 articles. I don't know if you did it, but I can see that since you showed up that indeed you went up. I just opened a important article over there tho.... Request for Adminship. Do yourself a favor and in Nominations section explain all the important things you have done for the wiki. Don't make threats like "I'm leaving if not" tho. Devilmanozzy  (Talk Page)  18:08, January 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for helping. I put in a request, should I contact the admins regarding the page?Hockeyben 18:39, January 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * Tell "anyone" that you know that will take your side in the matter. If there are active admins willing to take your side in this, it would help. Devilmanozzy  (Talk Page)  18:58, January 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * Also, you need to be clear about what you plan to do with admin rights. Why do you need them? It appears that the Ice Hockey wiki has 3 active admins, so your case needs to include what you want to do that requires admin rights and examples of when you requested changes that required those rights that were rejected for poor reasons.
 * You should also demonstrate that you can use those admin rights effectively by showing some knowledge of CSS, Special pages, or Wikia wiki configuration files like MediaWiki:Wiki-navigation, MediaWiki:Welcome-enabled, etc. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 2:28 PM PST 10 Jan 2011


 * Do you think asking will do the trick? Or if you did ask maybe you have been insulting other users and arguing with other users. You may have also been harrassing and edit warring, but I am not on that Wiki so I can't help you. You can ask a Staff Member such as Angela for help if you are upset about this.

Do you guys think I deserve rights? Hockeyben 21:54, January 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * I think the point here was if you don't need the rights, does it matter?


 * Administrators have a few additional editing tools but most of wiki-work can be done with normal users status. If you care for your wiki and can contribute to it without these few tools, do so. If you care for an arbitrary position on the wiki and buff your edit count to earn that position then maybe you should reconsider what your goal on the wiki is. Either way; I believe that adminship (and bureaucrat status for that matter) should only be given when NEEDED as well as DESERVED, not only the latter. Sovq 23:26, January 29, 2011 (UTC)

Well, three months later, I've pretty much quit and left the wiki, as things only got worse as time went on.---Hockeyben 15:13, April 25, 2011 (UTC)