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Hi, and thanks for offering your services as an administrator or nominator. Please read the Wikipedia page on Administrators, as well as Wikipedia's Guide to requests for adminship and Advice for RfA candidates pages before proceeding with a nomination.

The administrator toolset is a senior-level user right that is not for new, moderate, proficient, or even somewhat-experienced users. Candidates who are successful have usually made thousands of edits to articles and housekeeping tasks. Administrators need to know and understand how Wikipedia handles deletion and copyright concerns, and other policies, and they must be able to show that they can exercise sound judgment in complex situations.

Applications from editors without considerable experience are usually quickly declined as premature. If you are unsure if an RfA nomination is reasonable, please ask an admin or an established user for advice. There is also a list of experienced editors willing to consider nominating candidates.