Wikipedia:Admin coaching/Requests for Coaching

Coaches: Responding to a request
If you wish, you may contact a user at or near the top of the list. Leave a message under that person's name here, indicating you have contacted that person. If coaching commences, remove the request from this page and update your status.

In general, to help others, please note if you contact a requester (by appending "Contacted - ~ to the line, for example). If there is no response after some time, then note this too, and consider whether the request looks ongoing, or whether to move it to older/inactive requests.

If a requester is missing something off the basic checklist (for example, no edit summaries, or 95% of edits are of one type), then let them know on their talk page, mark the request as responded to with a note as to the comment, and move it to inactive requests for the time being.

Checklist before requesting coaching

 * Admin Coaching Guidelines
 * What RfA contributors look for
 * Samples of individual users' RfA Criteria

Current requests
New requests should be entered in the following syntax to the bottom of the Current list:


 * INDEX NUMBER
 * DATE OF REGISTERING ON THIS LIST (in yyyy-mm-dd format)
 * DATE OF LAST VISIT TO PAGE (in yyyy-mm-dd format)
 * OPTIONAL COMMENT HERE
 * DATE OF FIRST EDIT (in yyyy-mm-dd format)
 * (=number of months as an editor)
 * DATE OF FIRST EDIT (in yyyy-mm-dd format)
 * (=number of months as an editor)
 * (=number of months as an editor)

Please note: To calculate the INDEX NUMBER, look at the last "Current" request's index number and add 1 to this. Do not fill in any 'gaps' in the number sequence - missing index numbers either show filled requests (that have been removed from this list), inactive requests (which are shown further down this page), or requests which have been withdrawn by the editor themselves.

Requests whose last visit is more than 6 weeks ago (before --) may be moved to "older requests" by any editor. (If the editor who moves an entry wants to notify the requester, the template can be used for this purpose.) If you are still interested, please append to your request a note that the request is still active and the current date, and move it back to this section in order of INDEX NUMBER.

Requests whose last visit is more than 6 months ago (before --) or whose account has been inactive for more than 4 months (before --) will be removed from this page. Please note that you may not be informed of this. If you are still interested, please come back and create a new request. (If the editor who removes an entry wants to notify the requester, the user:phantomsteve/adco-removed template can be used for this purpose - please read the documentation for the template at User:Phantomsteve/adco-removed/doc)

Please read the basic checklist (above) first, and then if you'd benefit from coaching, add new requests to the end of this section.


 * INDEX NUMBER
 * DATE OF REGISTERING ON THIS LIST (in yyyy-mm-dd format) 2013-05-21
 * DATE OF LAST VISIT TO PAGE (in yyyy-mm-dd format) 2013-05-21
 * OPTIONAL COMMENT HERE I look forward to this programme, am very keen to join Board of Wikimedia Foundation
 * DATE OF FIRST EDIT (in yyyy-mm-dd format) 2013-03-21
 * (=number of months as an editor)
 * DATE OF FIRST EDIT (in yyyy-mm-dd format) 2013-03-21
 * (=number of months as an editor)
 * (=number of months as an editor)

Older requests - we need to know if you are still interested. If you are update the "date page last visited" box

If someone has proposed a pairing, they will add " (match pending) " in the admin notes box while it is being confirmed.

Matched requests
Matched requests should be entered directly to the Admin coaching/Status page by either the coachee or coach when first contact is established, and the relevant entry here should be removed.