User talk:TomPhil

Adminship
There's very few active administrators. How do I apply to be an admin here? -- Conejito (talk) 18:08, August 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for your message and apologies for my delay in responding. As you will probably have noticed, it is a number of years since I participated in editing this Wiki. Indeed, I wasn't actually aware that I was an administrator at all!


 * Having had a bit of a look around to refresh my memory, I recall that the Wiki was set up by Pandaman2000 and, looking at his talk page it appears that I initially asked to be made an admin then shortly afterwards withdrew my request. It appears that for some reason I was made an admin anyway!


 * I am somewhat uncomfortable that neither admin any longer participates in maintaining this Wiki, though it does seem a shame to delete the Wiki given the work that has gone into it (and I don't think I have the power to do that anyway!)


 * Because the Democracy games are a number of years old now and, as far as I am aware, no further versions are planned, I do think that there is likely to be only very limited interest in this Wiki going forward, which, from my perspective does not make it worth actively maintaining.


 * However, you are quite welcome to participate in the Wiki and improve it as you see fit. As I did not create the Wiki and as I am not entirely sure regarding the circumstances in which I was made admin (as I say, I wasn't even aware I had been!), I don't feel comfortable taking it upon myself to appoint further admins. However, please do let me know if you think there is a particular reason why it is necessary to create further admins.


 * If you do think there is sufficient interest in continuing to maintain this Wiki, it may be worth you contacting Cliff at Positech to gauge his views. I am quite happy to grant him any kind of admin rights etc over this Wiki that it is in my power to do so if he wants to get in contact with me.


 * Best wishes, TomPhil (talk) 18:33, September 23, 2012 (UTC)


 * I mostly feel there needs to be at least one active administrator around to watch out for any vandals and help clean the place up; there's a few spam pages and redundant articles around. I understand if you don't want to appoint anyone, but I still think someone needs to be around to maintain the wiki. -- Conejito (talk) 22:16, September 23, 2012 (UTC)