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Help on Becoming an admin and How[edit]
Hello I think I need help becoming an admin and how do I become one ? TUB3900 (talk) 01:11, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- @TheUltamateBoss3900: you'll want to take a look at Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship, as well as this essay on new users and requests for adminship and Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates. The long and the short of it is that a new user who is still learning the ropes here will probably not pass a request for adminship (RfA). Spend more time familiarising yourself with our policies, our guidelines, and getting involved in areas such as vandalism reversion and deletion discussions before requesting adminship. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 01:16, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) That's a good answer Cymru.las
. In short, one needs to work on different project areas such as Good articles, DYK, deletion discussions, ANI, RFPP, and more importantly, gain the trust of the community. Adminship is not a reward, but a responsibility. The more you work on the mentioned areas, you learn more. --Titodutta (talk) 14:38, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) That's a good answer Cymru.las
. In short, one needs to work on different project areas such as Good articles, DYK, deletion discussions, ANI, RFPP, and more importantly, gain the trust of the community. Adminship is not a reward, but a responsibility. The more you work on the mentioned areas, you learn more. --Lisa Fay[edit]
Hello Cymru.lass, Thanks for paying attention to the template attempt regarding Lisa Fay. I don't really know what I'm doing, but trying to learn. I think it's probably not a good idea that I be the one looking into creating this entry but someone else who is not involved, and who knows how to work with Wikipedia. Is there a way to find out if someone would be interested in considering making an entry about the work of Lisa Fay in theatre - in social issues theatre and experimental theatre over the past thirty years? I'm reading many of the pages about how Wikipedia works, but there's a lot to learn and I shouldn't be learning by trial and error. All the best to you, Bubby (talk) 09:56, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Jeff Glassman: Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm going to go ahead and agree that you're probably not the person to be writing the article. I don't mean to offend, however! But you hit the nail on the head when you said that someone who is not involved should write the article. Wikipedia has a guideline on conflicts of interest (COIs) that is relevant here. I'd urge you to give it a look over; it's actually not too bad a read. What's most relevant to you is sections 1, 2, and 7. This is a quick and simple explanatory guide to accompany our COI guideline.
- So where do you go from here, given that information? There's two avenues you can take. The first is going to Wikipedia:Requested articles, reading the instructions at the top of that page, and then posting it to this list of requested theatre people articles, with links to sources.
- Or you can go through our Articles for Creation process, where you draft an article and wait for it to be approved by one of our volunteer reviewers. You'll have to disclose your COI in any case, and instructions for how to do that (it's quick and easy, we have a template for it) are here. I'm not sure it applies here, but I do have to note that if you are getting paid in any way for editing, you not only have to disclose your conflict of interest, but that you are getting paid for your edits. Information on that is just below the COI disclosure instructions on the page I linked.
- I know this is a lot to throw at you, so feel free to reach out if you have any questions! P.S. I have several people near and dear to me who work at Krannert! Small world. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 13:28, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello again Cymru.lass! Thanks for all you say. I really need to be "talking" to someone. I've read a good deal of the Wikipedia material and still am lost. You are certainly helping. Before I follow up on your two avenues that you suggest, let me lay out a few things. There is no payment regarding this desire I have for Lisa to appear in Wikipedia. The conflict of interest is that we are long-time collaborators (27 years) in artistic work as Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo. Our artistic fates are interconnected. I have had a Wiki page for a long time, since 2006. I don't know where it came from - possibly from students at The Evergreen State College where I teach from time to time. I just don't know. It began with several glaring factual errors which I corrected and put my name to the corrections. It's all very short. For a long time I've felt a person searching for Lisa Fay ought to find information on Lisa's importance - in our work together and also in her work independent of our duo - and that she has a remarkable history of contribution to social issues theatre and experimental theatre. So now I'm doing something about it. There are other people who would do this, some I know and there are some I don't know. But how to begin? So I delved into it myself, and found the conflict of interest descriptions and see clearly that I'm not the person to do this, but other people don't necessarily think of it, or think they could have access to making a Wiki entry...I just don't know. I have no problem of course making a CoI claim...does that exclude me from helping or being a source of information? I'm looking at the two ways of proceeding you suggest. Is one better than the other? There is the concern that the information about Lisa Fay is something I have at hand and ready to go or write, whereas someone else would have to work at it and might not understand what they find. Can I be a consultant? So Request Articles, or, Articles for Creation...which do you suppose for starters? If you know people at Krannert, we might very well know them too! Our duo is in residence at Krannert, working on a new production we're creating. As you say, small world. All the best, and thanks again very much for your help in this! Jeff — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeff Glassman (talk • contribs) 08:27, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
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