KeychainPerson wrote: June 28th, 2026, 11:49 am
This wiki will expand quite quickly once I find out how to make pages...
The standard convention is that in the absence of any reason not to do so, we grant a trusted flag as soon as someone makes a request here in this thread. Then we collectively keep an eye out for new-user mistakes on the wiki, and just generally make sure that nobody goes too wild making a lot of additions quickly.
That works well in most cases.
Occasionally someone states an intention to do a lot of things on the LifeWiki that the community almost certainly won't want them to do. In those cases we basically disregard the trusted-flag request. We ask the requester instead to spend some more time reviewing what kinds of LifeWiki edits will be welcome. Once that's done, it's fine to make a new request ... preferably modified to avoid the scary parts of the original request.
Here's a
recent example of a trusted-flag request that wasn't granted. It's a good case to review carefully.
Four parts of this current request are a little scary for moderators:
1) the multiposts here are against
forum rules.
2) there actually isn't a hard and fast requirement that you have to make ten posts here before getting a trusted flag. That was
a suggestion from muzik, and it's a decently good suggestion -- but it's not just an arbitrary set of ten hoops that everyone has to jump through, and then they automatically get trusted. It's more like
"
if you've made at least ten posts on the forums that give evidence that you understand how the community works, then that's generally enough to convince a moderator to grant a trusted flag."
3) LifeWiki guidelines (
LifeWiki:Notability) say that in general users shouldn't document their own discoveries. There are exceptions to every rule, of course, but that's the rule.
4) last but not least, the idea of the wiki "expanding quite quickly"... is unlikely to work out well. Very prolific new users very commonly cause a lot of difficulties for other editors, and a lot of trouble for moderators. In extreme cases we have to temporarily remove a trusted flag for a while to get the problem under control.
TL;DR:
Start slow. Be careful. Look for existing conventions and do your best to follow them. After you make a few edits, wait a few days or a week, look for feedback from other editors, and take that feedback seriously if it appears.
