Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1073312-20140816013529/@comment-1370845-20140816033906

MassiveCraft and SporeWiki are only alike in being a community of creators and having management teams. We cannot and should not apply those policies here.

Tutoring someone is a no. If someone is willing to partake in making many prolific contributions to this site, they will do so themselves and shoe us their willingness and interest. If they need to be tutored, they have already not shown that. Furthermore, how would you teach someone to be a staff member, when that is such a vague role that involves so much? in what area would said admin participate? And even then, how do you teach them? I have never been tutored to do anything. I've been, at most, given hints on where to start. None of our admins ever received tutoring. Finally, if we are going to the effort of teaching someone just so we have a new staff member, we are wasting our time. At that point, we're doing it just because, and with no guarantee said admin will contribute afterwards.

If it means anything, if there were any users I would promote, it would be Randomness or Hachiman. However, the former is not too active and while he has many contributions to his name, they are often from a long while ago. The latter I suggest because he has demonstrated the strongest understanding of the role here, other than Random, and while he is more active, he is prone to losing his temper in discussions and being too abrasive at times. I'm also not sure if he's keen on the responsibility.

I'm going to again remind you we are a wiki. If you all have strong interest in seeing someone promoted, then by all means, prove it by contributing. Whether it's to mainspace, the templatespace, if you want to work on our (pretty poor) Project (SporeWiki) namespace for things such as the Fic Universe, or if you want to be WikiGnomes (who clear the mess found in the Special:SpecialPages), then I would be interested in seeing whoever did be promoted. But this is not a popularity contest, and I am skeptical that whoever did may stop contributing after.