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)


 * If you really must bring it to this forum...


 * There are a few things you should learn about wikis and working as a team. Based on some discussions on that wiki, it seems that the admins had difficulties working with you, and that you didn't always understand the style and organization of that wiki, all of which is important.


 * You also attempted to extort your way to adminship.


 * If you think you are mature enough to be an admin, try to learn from this instead of leaving the wiki. -- 16:57, April 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, to pick up an archived thread just to tell us that you left is a waste of everybody's time.

@Icecreamkitten

First of all, I was blasted when I was a new users for making some newbie mistakes. I was then blasted for not sourcing a few articles DESPITE the fact that the admins almost always don't source their stuff. And on that RFA page, I was insulted by the admin, so I decided to leave. Oh, I'm an active admin on 6 wikis, so I know what i'm doing.---Hockeyben 17:31, April 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * Just because you are an admin elsewhere does not mean you should be an admin there. You feel the need to constantly remind people that you are an admin on several other wikis. It doesn't matter. The admins of that wiki still said no so deal with it. I have told you several times that having a lot of edits does not mean you should have admin rights. What could you do with admin rights that you couldn't as a normal user? You tried to say that unless you were made an admin, you would not add the Bulgarian league standings from a year. This does not require admin rights. This can be done normally. When the admins of that wiki feel that you would do a good job with the admin tools, you will be promoted. Until then just continue to work diligently there.--

I tell you I'm an admin on many wikis on my blog, so you guys know that I know what I'm talking about. It doesn't really matter about that wiki. I haven't significantly edited there for awhile. I refuse to add the Bulgaria stuff AFTER I was insulted by the admin.-Hockeyben 17:48, April 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * Please, just let it die...

As I said. I've left the wiki, and let it go.-Hockeyben 18:05, April 25, 2011 (UTC)