Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-20302766-20130113125453/@comment-188432-20130114015911

Bluebellanon wrote: I've only very recently been an admin at the Sherlock wikia so wouldn't I need to wait 60 days before I could request this? Yes and no.

If you manage to bypass the formal adoption process, it doesn't matter how long ago you got adminship at bbc-sherlock. I could grant you bureaucrat status at w:c:factionparadox today, regardless of how long ago you became an admin at bbc-sherlock, or even if you'd never heard of Faction Paradox. Local bureaucrats have total autonomy when it comes to appointing admin. (Of course, if they made a lot of stupid choices, Staff could potentially de-sysop them, but such cases are exceedingly rare.)

Therefore, your least ambiguous option is to get one of the current sherlock bureaucrats to sysop you.

If you have to go through formal adoption, there are two 60 day periods to worry about. First is the 60 days since an admin edited. Second is the 60 days since you last created a wiki or were made admin of a wiki. This one you might fail on 25 January, but I still think it's potentially worth trying to submit an adoption request on that date. It could succeed, because of the closeness of the material. Your need for adminship is based upon a desire to merge content and make a bigger wiki about a large topic that's currently under represented. Staff could very well see that goal as more important than a strict adherence to the rules. They might not. Or they might choose something in the middle, where they give you sysop, but not bureaucrat, rights.

The worst that will happen is that user:Merrystar might put you on hold for a bit. If you were a few days early on your request, it's not like that would preclude you from reapplying. I've seen cases where she simply drags her feet on a reply until the formal 60 days is up.