Talk:Beetle Wings/@comment-24133975-20140214202912/@comment-3157150-20150710001757

I bureaucrat is a user with the abilities of an Administrator, but with a slight boost in access. I became a bureaucrat through sheer hard work and consistent help throughout the wiki.

Administrators have the ability to delete pages, edit and change locked pages, lock and unlock pages, add users to lesser user groups, etc. Any administrator would normally be voted into the position, when the wiki deems it needs another. Also, asking to become an admin/b-crat is a no-no. It's just not how things are done here. There is also no real reason for any more than a few trusted individuals having access to such all-encompassing power. I can tell you one thing; it took me nearly a year to get to admin status, and nearly another full year before becoming a bureaucrat. Both of those nominations were also bolstered by the fact the current admins (at the time) had been fighting. All of the work I did on those two years were for the bettering of the wiki as a whole, and it was no small amount of work.

I also created a large amount of the code for our infoboxes here, many of our calculation templates, I've done countless page restructures, uploaded many, many pictures, etc. It's a lot of work to get to the level in the first place, and you also have to have a calm and collected frame of mind, being able to handle situations in a neutral manner.