Forum:AR:Adoption request for Battlezone Wiki

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'''What is your username? '''AHadley

Please link to the wiki here:  http://battlezone.wikia.com

How many edits have you made on that wiki? 267 as of 18:56pm 22 November 2012. 83 of these are new pages/files (including the majority of the wiki's total page count, and greater than the total number of articles at time of writing).

How many days/months have you been editing there? Joined 24 November 2010.

On the Special Pages -> Special:ListUsers when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it? 14 November 2009, by admin HK-90.

Any other information:

There is a much larger Battlezone wiki at BZComplex on which I am a highly active sysops. Since this wiki has no active staff members, editing it to the level I would like (themes, page movies, page deletions, namespace changes, special actions, etc.) is difficult. I am therefore requesting adoption so I make a fully respectable wiki out of it, since it's a little small at the moment.

AHadley (talk) 14:43, November 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. What is the goal you have for this wiki? If you are already helping to run a separate wiki, I am curious why you wish to work on this one as well. I see that you had a similar idea two years ago so it not a sudden decision...


 * Your contributions look great, but they are all on two days. We would need to see some more sustained editing over the next week as well before granting admin rights. Please keep working on the wiki and we will check back. -- Wendy (talk ) 04:37, November 24, 2012 (UTC)


 * BZComplex not being a wikia and using bare mediawiki leaves it rather limited in my eyes, and its address is somewhat out of the way; not something a new user of the subject game would try visiting and not a desperately promising-looking hit in a Google search. Since Battlezone has a very active modding community (possibly more so than its players in some cases), the ultimate goal of having dual wikis would be to use the more accessible wikia for game information and keep BZComplex for strictly technical information (it is currently split between both, which makes it difficult to manage efficiently). BZComplex also contains a large amount of information on fan-made content, which we would gain the ability to treat differently in using multiple wikis. I did indeed have this idea quite some time ago; though I only discovered the adoption process this week and decided it would be a better way to do things than waiting for an inactive admin to return, hence my sudden flurry of activity. I'm going to keep it up regardless; I've just started Project Informational and Project Initialisation to try to knock the wiki into shape and neither look like they'll be complete any time soon. AHadley (talk) 07:33, November 24, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. Thanks for the explanation - that makes more sense. I've given you admin and bureaucrat rights. Good luck with the wiki! -- Wendy (talk ) 03:56, December 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much, Wendy - with any luck we won't be needing to bother you nice community folks again :) AHadley (talk) 00:57, December 2, 2012 (UTC)