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See FIRSTwiki:nominations for adminship if you want to nominate someone for adminship.

An administrator/sysop has the following abilities:

  • delete pages
  • block users
  • protect/unprotect pages
  • edit protected pages

An administrator's job comes largely from the name, not from the few abilities that he or she has. An administrator is expected to help new people get the hang of editing, making sure formatting and style rules are followed, and, in general, keeping order on FIRSTwiki. An administrator is expected to respect the idea of free and open editing and only step when arguments get out of control. An admin is also expected to explain any sort of controversial edits he or she may make, just like any other user; he or she shouldn't just "pull rank".


I think we need some more sysops, any takers? --Max 18:11, 1 Jun 2004 (EDT)

Maybe you could explain what you expect a sysop to do. Maybe I'm mistaken, but isn't it just delete pages and other administrative tasks like that? Has there been a real need for this, and would having a violations/vandalism reports page and a recommendation for deletion page be better solutions (where anyone could throw the stuff out there, and only a few sysops would act on it)? I realize more might be needed in the future ... I just don't know the scope of the issue currently. Oh, and I guess I'll volunteer if you need a sysop. (I'd just like to know what I'd be doing :P ) --Mrawls 14:36, 3 Jun 2004 (EDT)
I'm glad you put this up. It clarifies things a lot. (Takers? I've been avoiding nominating myself, figuring if you want me, you'll ask... Hell, why not?) --Astronouth7303 22:35, 8 Jun 2004 (EDT)

Is the new introduction of 'team page bot' to imply that it is an administrator, with privileges to delete, block users, etc.? I would ask why this is necessary. As a general security principle, never give a user more privileges than necessary ... for instance, if the bot only creates pages according to a certain template, why give it the ability to delete something. Not to say that the author would write malicious code, but perl scripts have a way of doing unexpected things! --Mrawls 10:08, 4 Jun 2004 (EDT)

It doesn't have sysop priveleges, check special:listusers. Moving to FIRSTwiki:Bots --Max 10:23, 4 Jun 2004 (EDT)

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Bureaucratship (moved from user talk:max

What does being a bureaucrat mean? Can you edit PHP code? --SilverStar 00:06, 9 Jun 2004 (EDT)

And why 'bureaucrat'? It makes it sound like your a pencil-pusher. --Astronouth7303 11:40, 9 Jun 2004 (EDT)
Ability to appoint other sysops/bureaucrats. Not my choosing of the name, built into software. --Max 16:46, 9 Jun 2004 (EDT)
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Request to block user

I believe that that the username Somemoron may qualify as an inappropriate username and the user should be requested to change his/her username and/or blocked. - ZhongHan

Max can do that, and I agree that it should be done. - Hollis1138 22:29, 21 August 2006 (EDT)
I don't really think that's such an offensive name. I'd rather not bother somebody who has only made a minor, constructive edit. I try to keep to the wiki philosophy, minimal intervention and controls where possible. --Max [1257] 12:22, 24 August 2006 (EDT)
Agreed. -- ZhongHan (Email) 06:31, 29 August 2006 (EDT)
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Request to delete pages

I will like to request/suggest for an admin to delete the following pages:

-- ZhongHan (Email) 22:39, 8 March 2007 (EST)

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Request to delete pages

To add on, the following as well.

Will add more as I go along.-- ZhongHan (Email) 04:20, 9 March 2007 (EST)

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Files for deletion

That's all for the mean time. -- ZhongHan (Email) 23:52, 9 March 2007 (EST)

    • I've dealt with the files above and deleted duplicates. I'd cross out the list but I don't know how to do that with Wiki code... <_< Cbale2000 23:59, 1 July 2007 (EDT)
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