Forum:I think it's about that time

I think I've discussed this with most if not all of you by now, so this shouldn't really come as a surprise. But with the year over and the Annual Awards with it (congratulations to all the winners, by the way), I feel I've completed my services to Halo Fanon, hopefully sufficiently enough to leave things off on a positive note.

Now, just to make things clear, I have no intention of leaving the wiki itself. There are still many of my works here that are incomplete and will require my attention for the next few years. So I'm not about to delve into a ramble about my time here and how great it's been. I'll save that for when I actually decide to move on from writing Halo altogether.

No, what this post is meant to bring your attention to is strictly business, not sentiment. Since I am officially retiring this month, Halo Fanon will need an administrator to step up and take my place as bureaucrat. So for those of you who haven't done this before, see below for instructions. They're pretty self-explanatory. And for our veteran users, I hope you will choose wisely.

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There is one other thing I'd like to address as well. Last month, I have approached my fellow administrators StoneGhost and Leo Fox, and they have both decided to retire alongside me. This will, as I'm sure you will deduct, bring our administration count to 5, which will in turn prompt the question, "Shouldn't we be appointing new admins to increase the number?" This I will leave up to you, the community, to decide, but personally I'd think it unnecessary. I've been closely observing our wiki's level of activity throughout this entire year (yes, even when it seemed I was inactive) and I think 5 is a healthy number for our administration at the moment. Take my opinion how you will, as I will soon be relinquishing my authority to act on your collective input.

I suppose I may as well set a date for when voting for the new bureaucrat closes. You all have until January 7th, one week from now, before I grant bureaucrat status to the admin with the most votes and remove my own. Hope you had a great holiday and all the best for 2015. It's been a pleasure serving as your bureaucrat.