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RfA is performative. I've written my handful of easy-to-meet, specific criteria here because it hopefully reduces drama on the RfA page, itself. These are my own opinions and are listed in order of importance. Please note that I have read WP:AAAD and disagree with many points listed there. If you give people a reason to oppose you, they will. Despite what Jimbo says, adminship is a big deal. Ultimately the vote count at RfA doesn't matter because the bureaucrats decided that they get to make whatever call they want, which means that requesting adminship is very much a political act. Maybe if you follow my guidance, the 'crats will like you. Maybe if you fail to follow these, they won't.
I know some will critique these criteria as standards creep but I'd point out that it's not 2005 anymore. As this project matures the admin corps has to mature with it. Adminship is a wide remit which can affect so many disparate communities of editors. Adminship became a big deal when ARBCOM and the admins working the drama boards repeatedly hesitated to punish their fellow admins for misbehavior, creating the "Super Mario" effect. Desysopping became a career-ending sentence and those of us non-admins understood we better stop bad candidates before they become too powerful to be accountable. BIGDEAL is reified every time a good admin hands in their tools at WP:BN as a gesture or a bad admin performs the once annual admin action to keep their tools as a status symbol. Many editors see adminship as a political building block towards ARBCOM, so RfA is the community's best chance to stop the megalomaniacs among us. I've also become concerned that some bureaucrats have odd interpretations of what criteria are reasonable. You cannot gauge what I'm looking for in an admin based on your own RfA perhaps many years ago. If you feel threatened by an increasing set of editor expectations then you can either up your game or thank your lucky stars we don't require regular no-confidence votes.
These are totally optional and beyond my criteria.
This is an
essay. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of
Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been
thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. |
RfA is performative. I've written my handful of easy-to-meet, specific criteria here because it hopefully reduces drama on the RfA page, itself. These are my own opinions and are listed in order of importance. Please note that I have read WP:AAAD and disagree with many points listed there. If you give people a reason to oppose you, they will. Despite what Jimbo says, adminship is a big deal. Ultimately the vote count at RfA doesn't matter because the bureaucrats decided that they get to make whatever call they want, which means that requesting adminship is very much a political act. Maybe if you follow my guidance, the 'crats will like you. Maybe if you fail to follow these, they won't.
I know some will critique these criteria as standards creep but I'd point out that it's not 2005 anymore. As this project matures the admin corps has to mature with it. Adminship is a wide remit which can affect so many disparate communities of editors. Adminship became a big deal when ARBCOM and the admins working the drama boards repeatedly hesitated to punish their fellow admins for misbehavior, creating the "Super Mario" effect. Desysopping became a career-ending sentence and those of us non-admins understood we better stop bad candidates before they become too powerful to be accountable. BIGDEAL is reified every time a good admin hands in their tools at WP:BN as a gesture or a bad admin performs the once annual admin action to keep their tools as a status symbol. Many editors see adminship as a political building block towards ARBCOM, so RfA is the community's best chance to stop the megalomaniacs among us. I've also become concerned that some bureaucrats have odd interpretations of what criteria are reasonable. You cannot gauge what I'm looking for in an admin based on your own RfA perhaps many years ago. If you feel threatened by an increasing set of editor expectations then you can either up your game or thank your lucky stars we don't require regular no-confidence votes.
These are totally optional and beyond my criteria.