User:Reaper Eternal/What you have to do to become an admin
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If you want to avoid failing RFA, here's what you need to do:
What to do | Reason why |
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Have 10,000+ edits that do not involve any scripts. | Note that this increases every month, so be sure your rate of editing is faster than the rate of increase. |
Have 5000+ edits to articles that do not involve scripts. | This increases too. |
Have 1000+ edits to the Wikipedia space. | Also regularly increases. |
Have 500+ edits to article talk pages. | Seems to be random, but have your edit count up here just to be on the safe side. |
Edit in many different namespaces. | Be sure to find some reason to edit that portal talk page. |
Contribute to "admin areas". | Nobody can ever decide what exactly is an admin area. |
Don't revert too much vandalism. | You will get the dread "ROBOT!!" oppose. |
Never make a mistake when tagging pages for speedy deletion. | You're clearly way too trigger-happy with the delete button. |
Be open to term limits and admin recall. | If you don't, you are clearly going to abuse the admin position. |
Not be open to term limits or admin recall. | It requires a silver tongue to make a vague promise of accountability without actually committing to anything. |
Never get yourself blocked. | Clearly, you are immature. |
Never say a naughty word. | You're immature. |
Never edit a contentious article. | The POV-pushers will grab all their sockpuppets, meatpuppets, and canvassed users and rush to oppose your RFA. |
Never contradict an admin. | He or she will gladly let everybody know that you don't understand policy. |
Don't tag articles with maintenance tags. | You're just bitching at the articles. |
Don't edit too much with NFCC. | You don't understand copyright issues or suffer from copyparanoiaitis. |
Be able to recite the deletion policy, protection policy, and blocking policies without peaking. | You will otherwise make some slight wording mistake and demonstrate how you clearly would abuse the tools. |
Have several good and featured articles. | You otherwise won't understand what the encyclopedia is about. |
Use an edit summary with every edit. | You are careless if you don't. |
Don't vote in AFDs where there are diverse opinions. | Your opposers will point out how you don't understand notability. (It's best to find AFDs that are already going one way and vote in them.) |
Don't nominate pages created by users with >100 edits for deletion. | They'll take great delight in pointing out how you fail to understand notability. |
Engage in dispute resolution. | Only inexperienced users don't. |
Don't offend anyone. | They'll take great delight in pointing out any mistake you have ever made. |
Make one of these mistakes. | You're clearly gaming the system if you would make the perfect admin.[1] |
Notes
- ^ Yep, you got it. It's impossible to go through RFA unscathed without getting really lucky that all the people who don't like you are on vacation, blocked, or sick.