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I ask because I'm interested in becoming an administrator so I can help out and tidy up more and to explore the admin's role.
Thank you very much for the praise. I'll try to justify it by big-noting myself and my work, and see if you all think me worthy. :) I also thank Darkwynters for his great and continuing efforts fixing and developing categories around here, and hunting down copied material.
Some may know me as the head DM of the Realms of Adventure community on RolePlay onLine!. Some may also remember my username from the old Wizards of the Coast Forgotten Realms forums, where I got involved in many a lore-based discussion to share information and ideas. I faded away with 4th edition and the yucky new forums there. But a few years ago I got interested in wiki editing, and joined another wiki to practice. At the time the Forgotten Realms Wiki seemed to have a lot of core 4th edition stuff that left me overwhelmed. I spent over a year learning the art at the other wiki, and wrote many fine articles. But I kept wanting to get back to my FR lore and research, and made an effort to familiarize with FRW at the beginning of this year, starting in mid-February and racking up almost 1300 edits in over 7 months. I've come and gone as I've divided my time with my other wiki and had work to do (which I just got out of a batch of, hence my recent quietness), but now things are settling down I'd like to focus my work here.
Since starting, my main project has been writing articles to develop the Vast, my first and favourite realm. I'm quite proud of Procampur and Tsurlagol, all my own work and possibly the biggest articles here. Ah! Special:LongPages: not counting lists, Procampur is the 2nd biggest article on FRW, the Vast 17th, and Tsurlagol 27th. :D I believe these are thoroughly well researched and well written. I'm a professional technical and scientific editor, so I'm quite familiar with the rules of grammar, spelling, style, and with writing for clarity and logical arrangement. (Yeah, it is kind of sad that I have the same hobby as my job, but I like to apply those skills to something more fun and enjoyable.)
Along the way, I've also helped hunt down and mark for deletion and restoration a good deal of old copied material, helped find sources for several things, and tidied up several articles. I've battled vandals and trolls, dealt with copiers and helped new users. Recently, I trawled through all of Category:Citation templates to improve the alphabetical ordering, categorisation, and making other corrections. I've also gotten involved in a number of discussions on policy, launched a few, and introduced a few styles and techniques.
I'd like to become an administrator as I believe it would help me continue my above works more effectively. That is, to clean, delete and restore pages more easily, to battle trolls with more power, and so on. As Hashimashadoo said above, the current admins aren't always around, so more admins should complement them nicely. And more broadly, I'd like to contribute more to developing the Forgotten Realms Wiki. This place has such a friendly, cooperative, helpful community where people are always willing to get involved, so I'd like to help maintain that.
And thank you very much for raising me to administrator-ship. I feel like I've been knighted. :D
References
- ↑ R.A. Salvatore (January 1988). The Crystal Shard. (TSR, Inc), p. 1. ISBN 0-88038-535-9.