User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/ADMIN BLOG POST: Should SpaceWeather be promoted?/@comment-5931267-20140113180511

So, I can tell this conversation has drifted more towards the wok ethic of other admins. If I may put my own two cents in on the issue, I really just think the whole thing falls to you asking for help Gid. Now, I can't tell whether in the past you have or haven't asked directly for help from other admins, but I think a major question for some admins is what can they do to help out. Now, while it really is the responsibility of an admin to know how they can help the wiki, some admins probably just don't know exactly how to go about it. Perhaps just offering a little direction to everyone would prove beneficial. Now not trying to say that Gid's the only person here capable of doing that, but he is the one person here who does do a ton of the work. Perhaps just asking another admin to tackle a certain issue like deleting a few pages or asking certain users who's stories are beyond the expiration date whether they want to continue. Just stuff that'd take some of the pressure off. Reddy may have offered it as a mock gesture (I believe he did anyways, I'm bad at reading sarcasm over the internet) but why not take some time to just hit the random page button a bunch and see what you find. While others could consider that a waste of time, I've actually found a ton of pages that were in need of deletion because of that. I'm just saying, doing a little does go a long way to helping the wiki.

Now back to the issue this blog is covering, should I be promoted? Well I'd just like to make my own case on the matter. Firstly, I know everyone elses issues is that we already have enough admins. I can't really dispute that, it does seem like we have a great abundance of them. However my whole reason behind wanting to become an admin is to help the wiki to a greater extent than I can in my current position. Many times while trying to help out with things like wiki clean up and other issues, I've found myself restricted because it was something only an admin could do. A while ago during a big wiki cleanup phase I was coming upon page after page of stories/character pages that did need to be deleted, or at least put up for deletion. However because they were locked, I couldn't do anything. I had to turn to Webly and take him away from what he was doing at the time to delete/put them up for deletion. Even now I'm finding random stray character pages where all I can do is put them up for deletion rather than just delete them on the spot like an admin could. I understand that y'all don't NEED a new admin, but I just think that if I gained adminship I could do sooooo much more to help the wiki. That's about all I wanted to say really.

Sorry if the first half offended anyone. I realize it could, but I really just wanted to give my opinion on the whole matter.

Thanks for reading.