RuneScape:Requests for adminship

'''Nominations are open again! Please read up on the new process below. See the RuneScape talk:Requests for adminship page to give feedback and discuss new policies.'''

However, Requests for Bureaucrat are still closed.

Requests for adminship (RfA) is the process by which the users of the RuneScape Wiki decide who will become administrators (also known as admins or sysops), who are users with access to additional technical features that aid in maintenance. A user either submits his or her own request for adminship (a self-nomination) or is nominated by another user.

About RfA
The community grants administrator status to trusted users, so nominees should have been on the RuneScape Wiki long enough for people to determine whether they are trustworthy.


 * Nomination standards
 * There are no official prerequisites for adminship, other than having an account and having a basic level of trust from other editors and if they can be trusted with administrator tools.


 * Decision process
 * Any user may nominate another user with an account. Self-nominations are permitted. However, if you haven't done much on the wiki, don't expect much support if you self-nominate yourself. The numbers of people supporting, opposing, or expressing another opinion on a candidacy are the main factor in determining whether or not the user will become an admin. Requests will be held for two weeks before a final decision is made. Once this time is up, a bureaucrat will decide whether to make the user an admin or not. In most cases, bureaucrats may only be recommended by other bureaucrats. Because it is good to have a stable amount of active bureaucrats, nominations will be made when one bureaucrat becomes much less active on the wiki.


 * Expressing opinions
 * Any user with an account is welcome to comment in the Support, Oppose and Neutral sections. The candidate may respond to the comments of others. Try to explain your opinion by including a short explanation of your reasoning.

Nominating
Nominations must be accepted by the user in question. If you wish to nominate a user, make sure you let the user know on their talk page.

All nominations should be posted at bottom of this page. Not at top.

How to nominate

 * 1) Create a page at RuneScape:Requests for adminship/NOMINEE, where NOMINEE is the username of the nominee, and subst Template:RFA into the page using this format: Candidate's username here
 * 2) Fill in another row of the Summary table below with the nominee's information.
 * 3) If this is a non self nomination, contact the nominee on their talk page to let them know that they've been nominated.
 * 4) Before anyone can become an admin, they must first sign the acceptance of nomination section.

In general, requests will take two weeks. However, if an RfA seems to be progressing faster, then it may be resolved sooner.

What can admins do?
See RuneScape:Administrators

What can I do to help?
To improve your chances of becoming an admin, you should should do some or all of the following as a normal user:


 * Watch Special:Recentchanges and help to revert vandalism even before you're an admin
 * Just because you don't have the [rollback ] feature doesn't mean you can't change vandalized pages back to what they were before. Any "new" pages that you can't delete yourself, just put the speedy deletion template at the top of the page. An admin will see this in Category:Speedy deletion candidates and delete it. This is the primary reason why this wiki needs admins - fighting vandalism and acting as a volunteer to keep this wiki clean, readable, and accurate.


 * Create good content
 * Attempting rewrites of large articles will greatly help your chances of being recommended/accepted, as this is more noticeable in some ways than lots of minor edits to lots of small articles. Where the wiki wins over other sites is our ability to get information out fast simply because everyone has editorial control, even unlogged users. Help write the brand new updates - if someone else is writing the quest guide, make your own notes but start creating the sub-page articles ready to be blue-linked already.


 * Be part of the community
 * Welcome new editors on their talk page and guide them in the right direction. Talk to other editors, engage in the forums and generally show your face around.


 * All decisions should be democratic
 * Regardless of who is suggesting something, whether they be a normal user, an admin, or a bureaucrat, all votes should be counted equal. If you are in the minority on an issue over a certain article, be prepared to back down. Be mature about it. See Runescape:All editors are equal.