Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-25867149-20160310185034/@comment-5650583-20160311024522

I would not give an untested user admin rights. On one of my wikis, I have had several users ask for admin rights out of nowhere. Often, they are rookies that just want admin rights just for the novelty of it, rather than actually helping out the wiki.

On the other hand, giving admin rights to an unknown means that you could potentially be giving the powers of an admin (block/unblock, rename, delete) to a troll. That would be very bad indeed. All told, my advice is to hold off giving them admin rights for now. Let them establish themselves on your wiki, then see if they are worthy. Also, don't delete their message; it can be helpful to have a record of past conversations.