User:Azuris/What I think adminship is

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What is adminship?
Adminship is being an administrator of any community. Being an administrator is something that is given to those who are dedicated to cleaning up any community and making it an easier and better place. My favorite word for adminship is "janitor", because we are administrators to make the wiki 'cleaner', by deleting spam/vandalism, blocking those who are to be blocked, deleting articles for deletion, and doing any task that will keep the wiki clean.

What adminship is not
Adminship is not something to be earned or deserved, it is not a rank, a symbol, a status, or anything else that glorifies a user. To quote Rs4life07, "adminship is not something that is deserved, it is simply extra tools" — that is completely correct, it is just tools given to users who are trusted and will make the wiki a clean place with their tools.

Now be honest and answer this in your mind: Have you ever wanted adminship? — face the facts, we've all wanted to be an administrator at one point in time, and I bet a lot of users still want to be an administrator. We are human, so it is natural for us to want to be an administrator and have extra tools, but that's not what adminship is. If we didn't want adminship, I doubt any of us would have submitted an RfA (for those who have submitted one). And as for those who have been nominated by another user, they probably have wanted to be an administrator, but were nominated before they did submit one — not everyone may agree with this, but this is my thoughts on what adminship is.

What makes a user a good candidate for adminship?
What I think makes a good user a good candidate for adminship is by reporting vandalism/spam, warning vandals, reporting vandals to administrators, helping out in articles for deletion, and being trusted and responsible to handle the extra tools that an administrator has.

I've heard many users, including myself in the past, say being active in the war room makes a user a good candidate for adminship, I've now realized that being active in the war room doesn't show anybody how a user would handle administrative tools. Anyone can give input in the war room, influence new policies/policies to retire, and do anything that will help benefit the wiki. Administrators are simply janitors, not war room writers, we can do everything any other user can do when it comes to giving input.

What doesn't make a user a good candidate for adminship?
I've seen users submit requests/nominations because I certain user has a high edit count or has a lot of blog comments, when really that doesn't make a user a good candidate at all. Submitting a request because they have a lot of blog edits/comments is not telling the community what someone would do as an actual administrator, I'm not saying making a few blog comments will mean you will never be an admin, but that submitting a request for that reason is just idiotic and shows the community that you have a lot to learn about adminship, and what makes a user a good candidate.

Now for having a high edit count - that doesn't mean anything either, anyone can have a high edit count, but the actual contributions of anti-vandalism/spam, warning vandals, reporting vandals, etc., will make a user a good administrator and will show the community their ability to handle the tools and responsibility that comes with receiving extra tools. I've said this many times, and remember this: 'Being an administrator is like being a janitor, they are administrators because they are dedicated to making the wiki and it's community and better place by reverting vandalism/spam, blocking those who are to be blocked, deleting articles for deletion, and anything else that will make the wiki clean''.

What should you ask yourself and tell the community about before submitting a request for adminship?
You should ask yourself and tell the community about this before you submit a request for adminship:
 * What will you do as an administrator? - this way the community can know about what you will do with the tools and responsibility, ask yourself this and tell us this so we can know that we can trust you.
 * What have you done that has made you a good candidate for adminship? - ask yourself this and tell the community about it so that everyone know what you've done, and that you would be a great person at performing the janitorial tasks of an administrator.
 * Why do you feel more administrators are needed? - so that we know you can handle the tools while other administrators are still active. I doubt anyone wants to have a lot of administrators here, so many might oppose with the reason "enough admins". You should try to convince them of how you would clean up the wiki and perform anti-vandalism/spam tasks, and if you know and can convince others that you will be a good administrator, they will most likely change their vote to a supporting one.
 * Suppose some users got into a flamewar, how would you settle it? - ask yourself and tell the community about this so that we can know how you will handle anything that is disrupting the wiki and it's community. I don't know about you, but I definitely want to know this so that before I can trust you with any tools that can easily be used against the community, depending on the one who uses the tools' actions.