GSWiki:Requests for adminship

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For general information about administrators, see GS:A.

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A request for adminship (RfA) is the process by which users of the Gemini Station Wiki can request access to the administrator (sometimes also referred to as sysop) or bureaucrat user groups. Administrator's tools include the ability to block users from editing, to delete and protect pages, and grant editors access to the rollback and custodian usergroups. For more information on administrators and their tools, please see the administrators page. Users with the administrator right have the responsibility for determining consensus on requests for adminship and for granting access to the administrator user group to successful candidates.

Any registered user may nominate another registered user for administrative rights, or a user may be self-nominated. Requests are public discussions; all users are encouraged to comment on whether they believe that the nominee should be granted adminship. Requests must be analysed for a final decision: the strength of the arguments supporting, opposing, or expressing a certain opinion of the candidate is used to determine the success of the request as per the wiki's consensus.

Requirements

While the only hard requirement for candidates is to have a wiki account, users within the community have their own expectations of administrators against which they judge potential new administrators during the RFA process. Some common expectations involve:

• Duration and their contribution editing history
• Appropriate/positive interaction with other users on the wiki and off-site; such as discord
• Understanding of the community's policies, rules, and know their way around quite well
• Trustworthiness/good judgment

Nominating

Nominations must be accepted by the user in question. If you wish to nominate a user, make sure you let the user know before creating the request.

How to nominate

1. Create a page at "GSWiki:Requests for adminship/NOMINEE", where NOMINEE is the username of the nominee.
   1. If this is not the first RfA for the user (or is an RfB) add /# to the page name.
   2. Add a link to the previous nomination to the request.
2. Follow the instructions given on {{RFA}}, (depending on the nature of the nomination) to fill out the request.
3. Fill in another row of the summary table below with the nominee's information.
4. The candidate must then sign the acceptance of nomination section on their request page.

Current requests for adminship

Current requests for adminship
Username	Nomination date	Closing date	Discussion
There are currently no requests for adminship.
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