In this proposal for administrator recall, any administrator may nominate another administrator to be reconfirmed by the community at RfA.
Adminship is granted indefinitely, and can be removed only by Jimmy Wales or by a ruling of the Arbitration Committee. Dissatisfaction with this situation has led to calls for a more community-based process, but agreement on the details has proved elusive. This proposal tries to strike a balance and avoid the defects of previous attempts, in hope of gaining a broad consensus.
Currently, to become an administrator at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, a user either submits his/her own request (a self-nomination) or is nominated by another user. Following the nomination instructions, the nominator creates a page for the request, explains on that page why the nomination is being made, and when the nominee has accepted the nomination, the page is transcluded at RfA, where the community can support or oppose it. A bureaucrat then closes the request as successful or unsuccessful.
In this proposal, administrator recall would work the same way, but with a few differences.
In this proposal for administrator recall, any administrator may nominate another administrator to be reconfirmed by the community at RfA.
Adminship is granted indefinitely, and can be removed only by Jimmy Wales or by a ruling of the Arbitration Committee. Dissatisfaction with this situation has led to calls for a more community-based process, but agreement on the details has proved elusive. This proposal tries to strike a balance and avoid the defects of previous attempts, in hope of gaining a broad consensus.
Currently, to become an administrator at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, a user either submits his/her own request (a self-nomination) or is nominated by another user. Following the nomination instructions, the nominator creates a page for the request, explains on that page why the nomination is being made, and when the nominee has accepted the nomination, the page is transcluded at RfA, where the community can support or oppose it. A bureaucrat then closes the request as successful or unsuccessful.
In this proposal, administrator recall would work the same way, but with a few differences.