Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24486291-20140403041850

I like this place. I really do. I'm a helpful person. I pick around the place. I'm no Consuela, but I do what I can.

Perhaps, in a matter of time, I may finally claim a small piece of the administration pie that rules over this vast land of minute amounts of gold and bucketloads of crap. Perhaps. I decided to scan over the rules list to see how to take part in actually meaning something here. What I found is overwhelming.

I'm not what you'd call a "wikia person." I've never used the damn thing. Until now, that is. You would understand that someone like me probably doesn't know any sort of wiki jargon. I just wouldn't get it. This? This is confusing.

The lowest ranking beyond being a Chat Mod (lord knows that they're not having fun) seems to be a Rollback. ''What is a Rollback, anyway? Rollback taxes? Wal-Mart price rollbacks? Rollback mountain?'' Five more days and I'm in the clear. Check. I could probably pick up on my editing some. I'm not a very active maid. Say what? God bless you. Now really, what was that? Must know the wiki naming conditions. I have no idea what that is. A naming convention? A convention where you name people? That doesn't sound very nice.
 * Must have been active on the wiki for two months.
 * Must have 200 article edits or 25 cases where you have undone vandalism.
 * Must know the wiki naming conventions.
 * Must know the wiki naming conventions.
 * Must know the wiki naming conventions.

How am I supposed to figure out what this means? If the rule is then I should be able to find a place where I can study up on the naming conventions. Whatever those are. This is kind of like school. You should have a source of information to read upon and memorize before you get introduced to the test. This is the test, and you forgot to give me the study guide.
 * Must know the wiki naming conventions.

Where on earth do I find the answers to things like this? Regular users don't have that power. How would we know how to use it if we've never even been able to use it before? That's like if every beginner job required you to have previous job experience. Where are you going to get a job?
 * Must know how to delete pages and files.

Nowhere. 