User talk:LoneWolf 5

What kind of jobs are you talking about? Dantman (Talk) 07:00, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Power to Block
Yes, someone who has Sysop status has the ability to do a number of things read Project:Jonin for what we're calling them here. It's not an odd thing, in fact the use of a block is a very common thing, because everyone can edit a MediaWiki system it means that people can just come along and vandalize pages, and sometimes users repeatedly come back to ruin the content in the wiki over and over so when someone repeats those actions a block is issued so they can no longer harm the site. I usualy go on a basis of 4 warnings, but I give higher increments based on level of vandalism. On that user I found 1 case of vandalism meaning it was a possible test, I bumped it up to 2 because I found another page which means it was obvious vandalism and not a test, and then I found a page in which large sections were vandalized which waranted 2 levels up, making 4, which is the last level of warning I use before a block. Blocking unruly users, deleting pages taged for deletion or deleting spam, protecting and unprotecting pages when needed, halting edit wars, creating rules based on community opinions and results of bad actions, are just a few of the tasks an administrator has to take on. In some cases, a good administrator is just what a wiki needs to turn from a onorganized mess with bad standards into a nice clean wiki with good full documentation. You should have seen The Gaiapedia back in August of 2006, the wiki was an absolute mess, now it managed to get a place up in the Wikia Spotlight in the last set. Dantman (Talk) 00:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC)