User talk:Reynoman

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A little favor?
I noticed this Wiki is kind of abandoned. Well, I've been a JumpStart fan for years and I am way too obsessed with it, so I was thinking of working on this Wiki. The thing is...there's not much to this Wiki yet, and if I'm going to work on this Wiki...I'd kind of like to "make it my own", create policies, choose the formatting, all that stuff. So basically...what I'm asking you is...can you grant me administrator and/or bureaucrat rights? :3

Yeah, it's a pretty big favor to ask for. Especially since I just met you. XD But I figure, since you don't have much use for this Wiki anymore, it sorta seems to make sense, right? And as for my qualifications...well, I've been a JumpStart fan since I was 5. Now I'm a teenager and I still like it. My brain is filled to bursting with information about every JumpStart product I know of and it's still filling up more and more. I think JumpStart is a great game for kids and I would love to provide informed information about its products to everybody - school teachers, homeschoolers, kids, everyone. I mean, honestly. I need to stuff all the information ricocheting off the sides of my brain somewhere, right? :)

Also, I have worked on many JumpStart articles on Wikipedia and have created a few - the one I like most is my article on JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade. I also am responsible for most of the JumpStart Advanced 2nd Grade article. On Wikipedia, I usually work under StoryMakerEchidna, but I worked on my IP address at one point.

I'd prefer to be an administrator before I work on this Wiki a whole lot, but maybe I'll start working on it here and there. If I make edits you're pleased with, I hope you'll take that as evidence that I'm the right girl for the job.

I hope you will, if nothing else, at least consider my request. God bless you and I hope to hear more from you. --StoryMaker the Echidna 23:09, September 19, 2011 (UTC)