Thread:ThomasandFriendsLover/@comment-961279-20170429193914

There have been many requests during the past few weeks to make people administrators. Many of these were from accounts that had never been here before. You chose to grant admin rights for some of them and the accounts immediately started deleting messages they didn't agree with. Those accounts also became globally disabled or blocked not long after, which means Fandom staff determined the account needed to be shut down

I'm going to recommend that you wait before handing out admin rights any more. Let the people who ask for them prove that they're going to stick around and help the wiki. I wrote a blog about this called "Make me a General". In this case, you've got the same person creating sockpuppet accounts in order to trick their way into becoming an admin.

You can help prevent damage to the wiki by not being so quick to hand out admin rights to just anybody that shows up. That includes me. You can see my credentials on my profile page, and while I became admin on over half of them as a result of cleaning up vandalism during the last eight years, that's not proof that I should be automatically entrusted with admin rights simply because I show up somewhere, even if I were to ask for them. If I'm willing to say, "Don't give me admin rights just because I'm here", then I hope you'll know that I'm serious in making this recommendation. It can be a really bad mistake if you're not careful. 