User talk:Emperorfurkan

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Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place  after the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! --TeaDrinker 01:10, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
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Becoming an administrator
I saw your email, and thought I would take the opportunity to respond here to show one of Wikipedia's features. We do have an email function for many users (they have to choose to enter their email address), however most communications regarding Wikipedia talk place on talk pages such as this one. You can leave a message on any other user's talk page; mine for instance is User talk:TeaDrinker. New messages go at the bottom and can be read by anyone.

On to your question. Wikipedia elects admins at requests for adminship (You'll often see this written RfA). Anyone with an account can run, but they will almost certainly be unsuccessful if they're new users. That's not to say Wikipedia doesn't like new users--everyone loves them and relies on them to keep Wikipedia functioning--but most editors will want to see a lengthy track record of contributions before they are willing to support an adminship request. Being an admin requires some familiarity with policies, guidelines, and processes going on behind the scenes.

The first step will be to develop a lengthy track record of good contributions. Work on articles, discuss points of contention on talk pages, and be bold. Most successful adminship requests are people who have been here more than a year, and have thousands of contributions. Editors who vote in RfAs tend to want to see some content work, often trying to get articles to good article or featured article status.

As you're more comfortable with the workings of Wikipedia, you can also work on tasks like fighting vandalism. Watch recent changes, or add frequently vandalized pages to your watchlist. You may also want to look over the village pump and WP:Help desk to get a sense of what sorts of ideas and problems other editors are having. Consider looking at Articles for deletion discussions and contributing to those. Deletion-related policy is fairly extensive and it is a good way to start learning it.

Being an admin doesn't really change your status on Wikipedia. It gives you some new buttons like "delete" and "block," but in every respect an admin is just an ordinary user. We don't get any special powers to use those buttons nor influence the goings on here unduly. The decisions to use those buttons still rests in the hands of all of the editors. When an administrator does something in that role, they must be doing something that they feel has the support of the community (either because it is not controversial, or it has been discussed and agreed upon). The symbol we have for admins here is a mop (and we're sometimes called "janitors"), since the main thing you do as an admin is clean up other people's messes. Most of us, I think, would prefer to simply work on content, but see administrative tasks as necessary although often time-consuming.

So again welcome to Wikipedia! Continue editing and good luck (and of course, feel free to send me a note if you have any questions or concerns). As you get more experience in the fairly varied areas of working on Wikipedia, and you still want to pursue an adminship, send me another note and we can come up with specifics of what to try. Best wishes, --TeaDrinker (talk) 16:03, 23 August 2009 (UTC)