Forum:What the heck ?

Can someone please explain how a user can be made admin when they have just 422 edits and just basically went to Dantman and asked for the position ? As has been mentioned multiple times, we don't need more admins. If going to Dantman and saying "I'd like to help out the wiki and get rid of vandalism" instantly gives you admin status, then you might as well just make every single user admin. There is no need for this unnecessary promotion of random users who have barely made edits. Hell, you could give me, Cerez, UltimateSupreme and a ton of other users admin because they want to "help" the wiki and "clear out" vandalism. None of this can be achieved without admin status according to Dantman >_>

For reference: see this --Speysider Talk Page 17:38, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah and I was really surprised how someone with only 422 edits can become an admin. I am just pointing out what's the best reason to make him an admin while he's not very active like Cerez or other editors out here. ~IndxcvNovelist (talk 17:46, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
 * I support Speysider on this one.—

As a user with only about 400 edits myself, I personally find it rather insulting that you're all ragging on this just because he asked and was made an Admin. Sure, I'm clueless, I wouldn't expect to get a position like that over the likes of Cerez or whatever who clearly understand the system here better, but I'd like to think that the number of edits isn't the yardstick by which we measure people round here. If Omni went to another wiki, even if he had less Edits, he'd still have the experience of being an Admin, so putting him into the position ahead of someone with more edits who has never had that job would make sense, wouldn't it? Ten Tails already brought up to Dantman that they're an Admin on other wikis and while I'll admit I don't find the fact that one of those is a Fanon wiki particularly reassuring, its still something. --Hawkeye2701 (talk) 18:57, October 30, 2012 (UTC)


 * Put simply, I have administration experience on other sites. I've been an admin on the Naruto Fanon Wiki, the Bleach Fan Fiction Wiki, and the founder of the Cystic Fibrosis Wiki since back in 2008. On the second site (Bleach), I actually preside over the entire administration team. I'm no novice at this. That aside, I've made many competent edits around the site and participate regularly in discussions. Some of the prominent users know me from this site or know of me from others. Edit counts are not going to be used to judge a user's character. Furthermore, being an admin doesn't mean I'm the boss of anyone, or anything like that. As Dantman and I discussed, its not a status symbol. Its a few extra buttons that allows me to help folks out, and since I'm far past what most users on this site (especially the admins) are up, I'm usually around when the new chapters first come out and can at least provide preliminary information where I couldn't before (due to protection and such) before the others get here the following morning. Lastly, I, as an admin on Naruto Fanon, dealt with a major vandal crisis awhile back and was able to effectively neutralize it with the help of my wiki members, so I know how to handle vandals, and with sysop properties, can handle them during the time of night that most of you aren't here. Speysider, I do take some offense to the fact that you're making such a big fuss about it. If you were concerned, you could have simply discussed this with Dantman, Omnibender, the other admins, or myself at our talk pages. I would've been happy to explain this to you privately. ~ Ten Tailed Fox Yamagakure Symbol.svg 20:15, October 30, 2012 (UTC)


 * Just to make sure everyone remembers, let's keep this nice and civilized. Alright? Nice and civilized.--TheUltimate3 Allied Shinobi Forces Symbol.svg (talk) 20:41, October 30, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes please xD haha ~ Ten Tailed Fox Yamagakure Symbol.svg 20:44, October 30, 2012 (UTC)

I'm concerned that people are simply getting admin just because they ask. I don't care what other wikis you admin as you could be admin'ing 5 different wikis and be a completely crap admin (no offence). And I do make a big fuss whenever some major change gets made just because someone goes to a sysop, asks to be admin, gets that status and is, at best, hardly active. Honestly, this should've been discussed with the rest of the wiki before just doing it so that everyone can get their opinion made known. Like when I brought up needing a second sysop. I'm not saying you'll be a bad admin, but I just don't think any real discussion was made with the community at large. What happens if other editors don't want you to be an admin because there's enough of them ? That's all I'm getting at: don't just give someone a flag without discussion with the community so that everyone's views can be made known. And to be quite frank, you don't really need to be given admin status to do all the things you plan on doing: there are talkpages (and people get to them when they can): the most you should really have, imo, is rollback. Don't need any more admins, like it was made known when I made it clear more sysop's were needed. And tbh, if you take big offence over this, then I question whether your suitable for an admin post at all. And fyi, if the amount of edits means nothing, then just give every random person who asks an admin flag, even if they won't use it properly, because that's what you are all implying at. This is exactly why I don't really edit here anymore: impulsive decisions made on a whim without discussion or people flooding the uploader with needless images. This is a big wiki and it needs community based decisions or it will just go in the wrong direction. >_> --Speysider Talk Page 21:13, October 30, 2012 (UTC)