Wikipedia:Don't edit for power: Difference between revisions

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'''Wikipedia''' is an encyclopedia where we work together, and of course we need admins to [[WP:BLOCK|block users]], [[WP:PROTECT|protect pages]] and [[WP:DELETE|delete things]], but to many users tend to think that adminship seems like a job where you are powerful, the boss and in control, whilst also you are allowed to act in anyway you want, and everybody takes your opinion as right. Because of this, some users only edit Wikipedia in a nice manner just to become an admin, so they can supposedly gain the power they want, themselves forgetting what the encyclopedia itself is for.

== What happens when they get power ==

Let's say these power hunting users go up for [[WP:RFA|RFA]] and succeed, they gain the supposed power that they have only edited wikipedia for. These users will possibly now just scrap writing articles and improving them also scrapping any other kind of encyclopedia based work, and obviously they will use the tools and only the tools!

::Eventually they will get bored of even being on wikipedia, bearing in mind they weren't bored when they were busy writing articles and improving everything to get the admin job, and most of these kinds of users will just abandon their admin account. Just for some [[WP:VAND|vandal]] to compromise it 2 years later and wreck havoc with these admin tools. Which is one reason you shouldn't just edit to look for power. However under some cases this doesn't happen, and this situation is a rare one.

==What happens when they don't get power...==