Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4848837-20130701232755

Ben 10 Planet is currently running on a more-than-sufficient seven administrators and the many rollbacks and regular users who combat vandalism and spam everyday. However, no matter how sufficient each of these groups are, it's always great to have as much assistance as possible. Did you know, the biggest wiki in the world, Wikipedia, has 1444 administrators and even more people on ranks 'below' that? That's not to say BTP will (or will not) one day have that many to help keep a wiki such as this clean, but it would be great to have more help from users with more rights that can aid in spam and vandalism counteraction.

So what's the purpose of this exactly? We need you, the average user or rollback, to become a frequent editor on mainspace articles and when you've met the requirements for such positions as those listed here, apply for them the RfP page (for chat operator, rollback, patroller, and custodian requests), the CVU page (for CVU requests), the Helper page (for Helper requests) or the Review board page.

To elaborate on exactly what all of the previous do, the Chat Operator is a user who watches over chat and is trusted enough to be able to ban users from chat (a separate permission from blocking which keeps users only away from chat) for an amount of time chosen by the chat operator as well as be immune to being banned (while being an operator). A rollback has the ability to undo several edits by a single person if they were done in succession. A patroller is able to mark edits as patrolled. While majorly overlooked, edits are pre-marked as patrolled when performed by a patroller, custodian, or admin, and this helps us to know that an edit was not vandalism or spam. Custodians have a major role, being able to delete files (images and videos), having the ability to edit pages that are protected for admin-only edits, have edits that are automatically marked as patrolled, can move files, and can move pages without leaving redirect pages behind.

CVU is a part made for people who intend to rollback with the added permission to block users as well as fix any MoS issues on any page (including those protected for admin-only editing). The Helper position is an open one. You will be, for a pre-designated time, left with a task of your choice or of an administrator's choice to clean up a certain section of the admin. This means that to do this task, you require the permissions that come with this. While you are technically an admin during this time, you are not permitted to use the permissions for anything other than for whatever you are fixing up. The Helper position means you'll clean up an area that's for admin editing only that can make the wiki better.

It's best to start small to see how well you do and to be assured that you won't be turned down for not meeting requirements, so start off with rollback and work your way up. At the moment, the RfA (requests for adminship) is closed as admins aren't being looked for in that way, but one day, it may reopen. Don't be afraid to edit and work your hardest at keeping the wiki clean, grammatically correct, in accordance with the MoS, etc., as you never know when someone is watching, maybe thinking about your promotion.

It all takes hard work, no matter what permissions you're looking for, and they will not be attained quickly. Even as a regular user, you can show your worth to BTP's cleanliness. That's where it all begins, even if that's where you want to stay. Keep it clean. The search begins now for CVU members and Helpers, both of which we have none at the moment; and for rollback members, which we have plenty of but are never too filled with to have new members. Any user can be a rollback, and it's suggested that any active vandalism counteracter tries for this part as it can help make the work a bit 'easier.'

TL;DR?: Then you're not ready. 