LEGO Message Boards Wiki:Petition/Petition to Remove Patroller Requirement for Requests for Admin

Hi, all. \o

As can be seen here, two months of patroller experience is needed to become an administrator here on the wiki. I would like to change that. I think there are multiple strong candidates for administrator, but, many of these users do not have patroller-status. Otherwise, many users fit all the other necessary requirements. I feel that editing is covered on this wiki: LFY, Spy, Alemas, Madkat, Ben, LCF and others are major contributers to help our articles. I feel that it is unnesscary for a user to become a patroller before they become administrator, because it would be useless: If the user's main purpose is not to be an "editing admin," why must they have editing experience? I think that yes, users running for administrator should have some experience editing mainspace, but to become a patroller? I think that is unnecessary.

In conclusion, the requirement for 2 months of patroller experience should not be a requirement, because it is getting in the way of multiple users becoming administrators.

Note: Because of this rule, the only active user that meets all requirements is Madkat. (Soon LFY and LCF will be, as well, once they hit two months of having both moderator and patroller user rights.) That means Guac, MC, A5, Samed, TSA and Indi cannot run at the moment, because they do not have patroller status, nor do they have it of two months, of course (I'm not implying that all of these users would run, I'm just pointing it out). This requirement is clearly unfair to those who would make wondeful admins but do not have the particular user-right of patroller.

Thanks! Feel free to leave comments/questions. :)

-Harold89 (talk)

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