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If you believe some Wikitraveller -- including yourself -- should have administrative status, add them to the Nominations section using the template below, along with some supporting evidence as to their experience and comprehension of Wikitravel policies and guidelines. After fourteen (14) days of discussion, the user will be granted admin status if:

• The nomination has been given the support of the community, including at least two other administrators,
• The user has indicated a willingness to take on the job of administration, and
• There are no outstanding objections.

Contents 1 Template 2 Nominations 2.1 Pashley 3 See also

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=== [[User:Username|Username]] ===
'''New election''' / '''Reelection''' (Pick your choice) 

'''Self-nominated''' ~~~~~ / '''Nominated by:''' ~~~~ (Pick your choice) 

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'''Acceptance:''' (Not applicable if self-nominated)

'''Support'''

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Nominations

Pashley

Sandy has proved to be one of our great contributors. He has a great understanding of the goals, policy, and consensus. More importantly he provides great content on many numerous Wikitravel destinations, most notably our Far East destinations. Please see Hajj as an example of the great work he does.

• Nominated by: -- Sapphire 16:48, 1 October 2006 (EDT)
• Support. -- Colin 16:51, 1 October 2006 (EDT)
• Support. --Evan 17:15, 2 October 2006 (EDT)
• Support. -- Ryan 17:24, 2 October 2006 (EDT)
• Thanks. What does being an admin involve? I believe you get a magic button that reverts things. Are there other toys? What are the roles and responsibilities? Pashley 22:09, 2 October 2006 (EDT)

  Seems like the only additional responsibilty is clicking "rollback" every once in a great while. Not much of a change than what you normally do. -- User:Sapphire

  Some of the other cool toys are delete, restore, and editing the MediaWiki templates. However, for the most part we shouldn't use any of the other cool toys unless consensus permits. -- User:Sapphire

  • Mostly there are a bunch of shiny buttons that we must not touch. The most frequently used button is 'rollback', which should only be used for multiple undos so that you can undo a bunch of undesirable contributions -- but you're still expected to manually revert at least one to add a text explaination so the user can understand why it's being done. The second most frequently used button is "delete" which is mostly used to process vfds that are done. The other special powers are pretty much never used in practice -- but see the admin page for what they are. So in summary, being an admin mostly means we think you understand how the wiki works, how consensus works, and we trust you. -- Colin 22:51, 2 October 2006 (EDT)

• Support. Take a look at Wikitravel:Administrators to find out more about joining the janitorial staff ;-) Maj 22:41, 2 October 2006 (EDT)
• Support -- in fact I'd kinda assumed Pashley was one already! The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere division of the Wikitravel World Domination Organization can always use more janitors. Jpatokal 23:04, 2 October 2006 (EDT)

See also

• Wikitravel:administrator nominations/Archives