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Your Request for Adminship

Thanks for submitting your RFA. While I applaud enthusiasm, I'm afraid you do not yet possess sufficient knowledge/experience for the community to have confidence in your readiness to become an admin. You may find the following advice helpful. If you have not done so already, please read:

• Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship
• The administrator policy page
• The admin reading list.

A few thoughts:

• Generally, It has been my experience that it takes at least 3,000 edits in a variety of areas to learn policy and guidelines well enough to attempt adminship. Also, nominees returning after an unsuccessful RfA should wait at least another 3,000 edits and 3 months before trying again. Nominees need to show the ability to contribute a number of significant edits to build the encyclopedia.
• The Admin tools allow the user to block and unblock other editors, delete and undelete pages and protect and unprotect pages. Nominees will therefore do well to gain experience and familiarity with such areas as WP:AIV, WP:AFD, WP:CSD, Wikipedia:Protection policy, and WP:BLOCK to learn when to do these things.
• Adminship inevitably leads one to 1) need to explain clearly the reasons for one's decisions, 2) need to review one's decisions and change one's mind when it is reasonable to do so, 3) need to review one's decisions and stand firm when it is reasonable to do so, 4) need to negotiate a compromise. Admins need a familiarity with dispute resolution. The ability to communicate clearly is essential.
• Article building is the raison d'être of Wikipedia. I recommend significant participation in WP:GA or WP:FA as the surest way to gain article building experience. I find a large number of "Wikignome" type edits to be helpful.
• I recommend taking part in RfA discussions to help learn from the experiences of others. Hope this helps. Good luck and happy editing.
• My suggestion would be to withdraw and try again in another 3 months and 3,000 edits.

Regards, ~~~~

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This template is meant to be used on a user's talk page a gentle, standardized method of communicating with users who might not have the experience that the community expects of a candidate for RfA.

Usage

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• The template will accept one optional parameter (single digit integer) - which can be used to specify months/edits (in thousands). The default recommendation will be 3months/3k edits if no parameter is specified.
• The template contains a L2 section heading.
• The template is automatically signed.

See also

• Wikipedia:RfA
• WP:NOTNOW
• User:Davidwr/Administration is not for new users
• User:Phantomsteve/admin-request Template for users who post a malformed RFA

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