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Requests for adminship (nae ti be confounded wi requests for arbitration at WP:RFAr) is a page ti nominate yersel or ithers for ti become a Wikipedia administrator. Admins hae access til a puckle technical featurs that help wi Wikipedia maintenance. Please see the readin list an wey-to guide afore appleein here.
Aboot RfA
[eedit soorce]Administrator status is grantit ti trustie members o the commonty that's fameiliar wi Wikipedia policies. Admins dinna hae ony byordinar authority on Wikipedia, but is hauden ti heich standards, sin they are seen bi some uisers as the "offeicial face" o Wikipedia. Admins shuid be mainerlie, an shuid shaw guid juidgment an patience in dealin wi ithers. Nominees shuid hae been on Wikipedia lang eneuch for fowk ti see gif they hae thir qualities or no. Houaniver, adminship shuidna be a muckle thing. Admin actions is reversible; bein an admin is maistlins an extra responsibeility, sin there are rules an policies that juist applees til admins.
Nomination staundarts
Maist neow admins haes mair nor three month o parteecipation an mair nor 1000 edits. See the standards for adminship expectit bi some raigulars on this page. Ye can uise kate's tool ti coont a nominee's edits; mind that # of edits micht be inflated bi frequent smaa edits.
Ye dow nominate yersel.
Anonymous users canna be nominated, nor nominate ithers, nor vote. They are alloued ti comment tho.
Nomination process
Nominations stay for seiven days, for votes an comments. Bureaucrats dow at their discretion extend this whan consensus isna clair; the threshold for consensus on this page is rochlie 75-80 percent support. In extraordinar circumstances, bureaucrats micht chuise forbye ti void the walins cast an require a rewale. Thae nominations that will clairly fail micht be taen awa aerlier for ti stop collogues that causes ill will; houaniver, sin maist editors disna veisit Wikipedia ilka day, a raisonable time shuid be gien. Some uisers opposes aerlie removal under onie circumstances. Gin yer nomination is rejectit, please wait a raisonable time afore appleein ance mair (say, a month).
Sel-nominations Please review the qualifications abuin. Some editors feels that sel-nominees shoud "exceed the ordinar guidelines by guid meisur", hae an accoont name that is mony months auld an hae mnny hunders o edits (in practice onybody wi less nor 1000 edits haesna a real chance o passin). This is no tae say that sel-nominators is necessar ony less qualifee'd nor "sponsored" nominations. Maist voters can be presumed tae conseeder aw nominees on their ain merits, an there's e'en a few that leuks wi speicial favour on sel-nominations as expressin a suitable independence. A guid solit backgrund is equally important for baith kynd o nomination. Obviously unqualifee'd nominations o aither kynd micht coud be removed athoot discussion.
Votin
For tae eik your vote, edit the section for that candidate. Aw Wikipaedians wi an accoont is walcome tae vote. Lang discussions shoud be hauden in the Comments section.
Please shaw whither ye uphaud or oppose the candidate. Ye can cast a neutral vote that winna be tabulated in the final calculations an aw. Whan ye cast yer vote, please conseeder providin an expoondin, specially on oppose an neutral votes, sae the candidate or ither voters can unnerstaund an address it. In a close nomination, aw explanations an comments will be conseedered, includin thaim that's in neutral votes. Ye shoud can update the vote tot whan votin an aw.
In yer comments an responses, please be respectfu o ithers. Some dialogs micht become contentious an emotional. Mynd that we are aw fowk wi feeling, emotions an pride.
For tae nominate somebody (includin yersel)
- Edit this page an eik the follaein text abuin the maist recent nomination:
- {{Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/UserName}}
- ----
- Follae the reid airtin tae Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/UserName an eik the follaein:
- ===[[User:UserName|]]===
- '''[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/UserName|action=edit}} Vote here] (0/0/0) ending {{subst:#time:Y-m-d H:i|7 days}}'''
- {{User|USERNAME}} - Yer nomination/descreeption o the uiser --~~~~
- {{subst:Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Candidate quaistens}}
- Gin the nominatit uiser is on the Leet o Wikipaedians bi nummer o eedits, please update their status for tae reflect the new nomination, wi an airtin tae the nomination page.
Current nominations
[eedit soorce]Vote here (0/0/0) endin 2025-07-02 06:23 CiphriusKane (collogue ยท contreebs) - A'm here ti request a stendin o ma pooers --CiphriusKane (tauk) 06:23, 25 Juin 2025 (UTC)
- Candidate, please shaw gin ye accept the nomination here: Ay CiphriusKane (tauk) 06:34, 25 Juin 2025 (UTC)
Support
Aye :) Lirazelf (tauk) 09:53, 25 Juin 2025 (UTC)- Aye Cobra! (tauk) 10:15, 25 Juin 2025 (UTC)
Oppone
Neutral
Comments
Quaistens for the candidate
A feow generic quaistens tae gie guidance tae the voters:
- 1. Whit sysop chores, if ony, wad ye foresee yersel holpin wi? (Please read the page aboot administrators an the administrators' readin leet.)
- A. Jist mair ae fit a'v been daein the past fower an a bit year CiphriusKane (tauk) 06:34, 25 Juin 2025 (UTC)
- 2. Amang yer ain airticles or contreibutions tae Wikipaedia, are there ony that ye'r rael prood o, an whit wey?
- A. A'v been makkin heidweys inti reddin oot the law quality airticles aat wis creatit en masse ower the past tenyeir, an a still hae plans ti redd up certain airticles fur frontpage mentions CiphriusKane (tauk) 06:34, 25 Juin 2025 (UTC)
- 3. Haev ye bin in ony fechts ower editin in the past or div ye feel that ither uisers hae caused ye pain? Whit haev ye duin aboot it and whit will ye dae aboot it in the future?
- A. There wis a bit o a stramash anent law quality airticles bein mairkit as "non-notable" despite haein decent airticles on ither wikis (as we'r eesin the term ti help wi seyed airticle mass creatins). As sic, a'v proponed a renamin o the CSD category ti better state aat it's fur nae meetin iss wiki's criteria as is raither nor ony ither wiki's staundarts, as weel as seein gin mellin or reguidin kin be deen ower deletins CiphriusKane (tauk) 06:34, 25 Juin 2025 (UTC)