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wikiHow to Become a Wikipedia Bureaucrat

On Wikipedia, the next step above administrator is bureaucrat. In addition to the standard administrator tools, bureaucrats also have other tools such as being able to make people administrators and rename users. If you're looking to become a bureaucrat on Wikipedia, this is the how-to for you.

Steps

  1. 1
    Create an account. Only registered users can become bureaucrats.
  2. 2
    Become an active member of the community and make good contributions. Make your contributions in a variety of areas such as editing articles, creating articles, participating in site discussions, and reverting vandalism.
  3. 3
    Become an administrator. You're not actually required to be an administrator to become a bureaucrat, but the community will look more favorably of you if you're an administrator. You're likely to fail your nomination if you're not an administrator (and in the most likely case, your nomination will be ended early through the site's snowball clause and/or "not now" clause).
  4. 4
    Be an active administrator. When you first start, it's a good idea to read the site's new admin school page to understand the privileges that administrators have and how to use them correctly. While you're an administrator, you should be active in a variety of administrative tasks such as deleting bad pages, blocking users, and participating in administrator discussions. You should be active in the administrators' noticeboard.
  5. 5
    Decide if you actually want to be a bureaucrat. Being a bureaucrat is hard work, and takes more time than being an administrator. Read the site's page on bureaucrats to see if being a bureaucrat is for you. If you make a nomination for bureaucrat when you don't really want it, you're likely to fail your nomination.
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    Study old bureaucrat requests at the requests for adminiship board to understand what is expected of bureaucrats. See why people succeed and why they fail and make note of what you observe.
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    Go to the requests for adminship page, and in the box that says "Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/USERNAME," replace "adminship" with "bureaucratship," and "USERNAME" with your Wikipedia username. Click on "Nominate yourself" when you're done.
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    Remove the requests for adminship template, and replace it with {{subst:RfB|User=USERNAME|Description=YOUR DESCRIPTION OF THE USER}} Put in your username where it says "USERNAME" and your description of why you want to be a bureaucrat where it says "YOUR DESCRIPTION OF THE USER." After the description, sign your nomination with four tildes (~). Click on "Save Page" when you're done.
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    Click on "Edit Page" at the top of the page, and answer the three standard questions. Click on "Save Page" when you're done.
  10. 10
    Copy the code {{Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/USERNAME}} and paste it at the top of the requests for bureaucratship list. If there are no other nominations, replace the template that says this instead. Replace the "adminship" with "bureaucratship" and "USERNAME" with your username. Click on "Save Page" when you're done.
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    Go through the process. Answer any questions that other users give you, and participate in discussions on the page. After seven days of discussion, if you have enough support from other users, you'll become a bureaucrat.

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    Tips

    • Don't fret if you don't pass the first time. Take the advice of users who opposed you, and try again after a year.
    • Stay calm throughout the process. If you lose your cool, you're likely to get more opposition.
    • While there are no concrete requirements for becoming a bureaucrat, it's suggested that you be an administrator for at least a year before applying.
    • Read the guide to requesting adminship and pay attention to requests for adminship that are currently up. You'll be expected to be aware of processes that involve bureaucrats.
    • Read the bureaucrats' noticeboard to get the idea of what kind of issue you'll face if you become a bureaucrat.

    Warnings

    • This article is not a foolproof guide on becoming a bureaucrat. This article is only an overview of what is expected and how to create a nomination. Following this guide doesn't guarantee that you'll succeed.
    • Don't use sockpuppets to stuff support votes. Not only will your sockpuppets be blocked and the support votes struck out, you're likely to be stripped of your administrator powers and potentially blocked.
    • Don't try to dodge issues that users bring up. Explain the issues and why they happened.
    • You'll be going under much more scrutiny from users than you did when you applied for adminship.
    • Requests for bureaucratship is not a vote. Whether consensus has been reached or not is decided by a bureaucrat.
    • Becoming a bureaucrat is much more difficult than becoming an administrator. You'll be held to higher standards, and the necessary support percentage is higher (85%, compared to 70% for becoming an administrator).

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