Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adopter's Area/Resources

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This page is for listing resources for Adopters that may help them in helping their Adoptees. For resources to be used by Adoptees please see here.

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[edit] Templates including modified welcome template

This user is seeking to be adopted by an experienced editor.


  • {{Adopting}} used by experienced user who wants to Adopt a new user.
This experienced editor is seeking to adopt new users. (Users requesting adoption)


  • {{Adoption backlog}} displays current number of users seeking adoption and turns red/orange when the number exceeds 15.
There is currently a backlog of 22 users seeking to be adopted in the Adopt-a-User program.


The following code can be used by an experienced user to easily provide information at Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adoptee's Area/Adopters. Add it right before the last line of the table ( |} ):

  • {{AdopterRow|user=Adopter's Username|admin=Is the Adopter an admin? Yes/No|status=Who, if anyone, is the Adopter currently adopting|involvement=Where on Wikipedia is the Adopter most involved|notes=Any special notes, e.g. about the Adopter's availability}}

This will add your information to the current table, which looks like this:

Adopter Admin Adoption status On Wikipedia Notes
ExampleUser (talk ยท contribs) No Waiting to adopt I edit whatever catches my attention EST
  • {{Adoptee}} used on Adoptee's userpage once adopted.
This user has been adopted by ExampleUser.


  • {{Adopter}} used on Adopter's userpage once they adopt.
This user has adopted ExampleUser.


  • {{AdopteeGrad}} used on Adoptee's userpage once graduated.
This user has graduated from the adoption program by ExampleUser! Kudos!


  • {{AdopterProud}} used on Adopter's userpage when Adoptee graduates.
This user is proud to have been the Adopter of ExampleUser.


[edit] Reference Sources

Your adoptee has asked you a question and you do not have a clue where to begin. Some of these links may help:

  1. Help:Contents contains many useful links, which you may want to bring to your adoptee's attention to help get them started.
  2. A good place to start is the Help desk and its FAQ on how to use Wikipedia and the Reference desk for general knowledge questions.
  3. Help:Contents/Policies and guidelines
  4. Impress your adoptee with some fancy tools.
  5. And if all else fails ask a question at Adopt-a-User, Help desk or by using the helpme template.
  6. Some users set their adoptees tasks to help them learn now to use Wikipedia better. You can find an example of this here.

[edit] Negotiation

Sometimes adoptees may get into conflict with other users. The links below many help you gain the skills or services to help manage them:

  1. The following category lists groups, policies and pages that maybe able to help you Category:Wikipedia dispute resolution
  2. See this page to learn some negotiation skills.

[edit] When things go wrong

Hopefully you will never need to access the links below, but if an adoptee does something inappropriate, those links may be useful:

  1. Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention or Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.
  2. Wikipedia:Sock puppetry and if IP check might help Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser.
  3. To query a block see Wikipedia:Appealing a block.

[edit] When things go right

The {{Award of First Success}} can be used when your adoptee completes a first assignment:

Award of First Success
your message here

To use it, add the following code: {{subst:Award of First Success|your message here ~~~~}}