Congratulations It s my pleasure to let you know that consensus being reached you are now an administrator You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion protection banning users and editing protected pages such as the Main Page Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops apart from page history merges and image deletion so please be especially careful with those You might find the new administrators how to guide helpful Cheers explains it all Congratulations on a well deserved promotion Lucky Use it for the good talk 02 02 August 10 2005 UTC Congratulations from me too Lucky you re one of the most deserving I ve ever seen Best wishes talk And more congrats from me As I said on your RfA it s about time too And I m thrilled to see you decide to stay after all spill yours Stay Talk 02 41 August 10 2005 UTC Lucky I saw what all went on today while I was out why do all these things always happen while I am offline and I just wanted to drop by and leave a note for you I hope that the restoration of your pages and your promotion is a sign that you re still with us I d hate to see an excellent contributor lost If there s anything I can do for you let me know Talk 02 02 August 10 2005 UTC Yes I echo Essjay s sentiments Of course Lucky didn t exactly ask for me to undelete his talk page I m sure it was in all of our best interests Congratulations on your promotion Now go fix the Pedia and let s move past this whole fiasco t 02 15 August 10 2005 UTC Thanks be to God you re still with us I agree with Joy below I was on pins and needles waiting to see if you were going to stay Now that you have have an award Talk 02 41 August 10 2005 UTC Il n y a pas de quoi I m glad to have been of help and I assure you if I need any I ll be coming your way I m honored to be able to proclaim that now you re a trollslayer too Talk 05 23 August 10 2005 UTC Yes please do stay Although I added my oppose vote to your RFA after you had already been promoted though I didn t know that then I am happy that you were promoted If that can convince you to stay that s a great win for Wikipedia I am truly beyond words Thank you for your support I promise that I won t let you down I m glad you see it that way And I m certain you will err on the side of caution now that you re an admin I am so very very happy for you Congratulations I ve been on pins and needles talk 02 22 August 10 2005 UTC Congrats Wow Congrats Lucky That must have been hard for you three bureaucrats numerous deletions threats and postings I don t think I would stay after four bad RfAs Well now you ve got the prize I know we haven t worked much together here on Wikipedia but I ve seen your work all over the place Here s a mop welcome to the topp sekrit cabal Cheers talk 5 pillars 02 27 August 10 2005 UTC Congrats and hang around There s some cool old folks coming back and things are a bit choppy while