User blog comment:Julianthewiki/4th Admin Poll/@comment-4189499-20131102092804

New admins really shouldn't be decided through a poll, especially when only one person can be chosen in polls. Why not let everyone who would like to be an admin open a forum post with arguments as to why they should be admin. Then people can comment their support or non-supportiveness (is that a word?) for each candidate, stating why they think that person would make a good admin. Then, at the end of the week, users must take into account the number of arguments for and against each person and decide adminship with that. Note: number of reasons why one should or shouldn't be an admin, not number of supporters. You need to justify the adminship! If, at the end of the day, the current admins decide there are enough arguments in favour of a person becoming and admin, they can make them admin. They can make as many people as they like admin! This sort of process not only ensures that all candidates actually want to be admins, but makes sure the reasoning behind the eventual acceptance is strong and means that more than one person can be admin at a time if they are worthy of the position.

Also, remember that adminship is a big responsibility and you will be looked up to by other users, expected to help try and keep the peace, should probably have some coding knowledge so you can make sure things like templates run smoothly in the background, and do the boring clean-up jobs that are needed but that other people can't be bothered doing. Always put your best foot forward, even when you are tired and frustrated, and make sure not to abuse your powers, even if protecting a page would be the easiest way of stopping an argument. You will be a caretaker for this wiki, not a king of it.

Make sure you know what you are getting yourself in for before you ask for adminship, and make sure you have good reasons for choosing somebody as an admin of a wiki. That is all.