Odyssey Online Wiki:Requests for Adminship

Requests for Adminship (or RfA) is the process by which users decide if a user is worthy of adminship. Users may nominate people they feel are deserving of admin rights. Then, the community may vote on whether or not they are deserving. If the community feels that a user is deserving of admin rights, a bureaucrat may sysop them. However, the community should be careful when deciding. Decisons should not be rushed. Many wikis have had to have users stripped of their sysop rights because they abused their powers.

What can admins do?
Administrators have certain powers normal users do not. Below is a list of things administrators can do that normal users can not.


 * Administrators have access to the rollback feature, which makes reverting vandalism easier.
 * They may block vandals and trouble makers.
 * Admins may protect pages. They can also edit protected pages.
 * Administrators can edit mediawiki pages.
 * Admins may view deleted pages, as well as delete and restore pages.

What is a bureaucrat?
A bureaucrat is an administrator who can make other users admins/crats.

What can I do to become an admin?
Just edit, welcome new users, revert vandalism and participate in community discussion. After that, it's up to the community to decide if you're worthy. If your nomination fails, just keep editing and when someone thinks you're ready, they can nominate you. If time passes and nobody feels you're ready, then just nominate yourself. But remember, never get upset if you fail. If at once (or possibly multiple times) you don't succeed, try, try again.