Thread:SavageOpress1138/@comment-33613830-20171129000012/@comment-104549-20171129020827

I'm going to reply here, rather than to the message on my Wall, to keep everything in one spot.

Preliminarily, per the nomination rules, no one can be nominated or elected to a bureaucratship without at least 100 mainspace edits. So at present you're not eligible. Additionally, it's worth noting that Bureaucrats (and all admin team members) are elected, not appointed; neither Sav nor I could just make you one even if we wanted to.

That said, while the process allows self-nomination or nomination of others, I agree with GrandChewbacca's analysis. Although, apart from the mandatory 100, there's no "unofficial official" edit count required, if there was, 5 definitely wouldn't be it. The two active admin team members (Sav and myself) each have thousands of edits; our semi-active admin TK-999 has 10,000+. And it's a matter of quality as well as quantity; all admin team members have experience in the community, make a point of helping new users, etc. Even if you unseat me as the "user with most articles" and have 25,000+ edits to your work, if all you ever work on is your own work, users likely won't seriously consider you for the admin team.

Additionally, you've kind of skipped some steps. There are three levels of admin team service: Moderators, Administrators, and Bureaucrats. Moderators do a lot of the basic policy enforcement, assist new users, etc. Admins have more advanced tools for protecting the Wikia. Bureaucrats have even more tools, and are generally the final authority on interpretation of Wikia policy absent a community vote.

All this is to say that asking to be a Bureaucrat as soon as you have 100 edits is like asking to be elected President of the United States because you're 35; technically you're eligible, but you've probably skipped some important steps that would prepare you for the duties and responsibilities.

In addition to all of that, the Wikia generally runs with a pretty small admin team. I became a Moderator this past summer in part because Sav needed an extra hand, but at the moment there isn't a pressing need for new Moderators, let alone new Admins or Bureaucrats. Being on the admin team isn't a reward for being a helpful member of the community so much as it is taking on additional responsibilities because the community needs the extra help.

It's not necessarily wrong to look ahead to some day being on the admin team, and if that's your ambition, then make a point of reading and fully understanding the, helping out other users when and where you can (but if you don't know, don't guess), etc. But right now I'd focus more on getting used to the Wikia and developing your own contributions in the form of articles, fan-fiction, or both. Crawl before you walk, walk before you run; being a Bureaucrat is sprinting.