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
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

  1. ^ 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.