User:Bduke/RfA review

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Questions
When thinking about the adminship process, what are your thoughts and opinions about the following areas:


 * 1) Candidate selection (inviting someone to stand as a candidate)
 * I have never invited someone to be an admin, but I was invited myself. At first I declined, but much later told that person, that I thought I might be ready.
 * 1) Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
 * I dislike this, whether it is formal or informal.
 * 1) Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)
 * I am not opposed to self-nomination, but I would prefer candidates to be nominated by someone else. The nominator can step back and judge whether the candidate is ready. I see no particular reason for co-nomination and excessive co-nomination is a bad idea.
 * 1) Advertising and canvassing
 * Should not take place.
 * 1) Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)
 * I think the number of question asked is now excessive. People should express their opinion if they know something of the candidate's work. I do not !vote unless I know something of the candidate.
 * 1) Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
 * Being admin should be no big deal, so I think all opposes should give a reason for opposing, but all supporters should not have to.
 * 1) Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
 * The process is stressfull for many people and I can understand why people bail out if it is not going well.
 * 1) Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
 * I have no particular view.
 * 1) Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
 * Should not be necessary.
 * 1) Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
 * I am not happy with this process. Clearly if a lot of editors disagreed with what I am doing as an admin, I would resign, but I do not find a process for this to be helpful.

When thinking about adminship in general, what are your thoughts and opinions about the following areas:


 * 1) How do you view the role of an administrator?
 * Not a big deal. There are backlogs. Admins should do what they can to clear some of them up. Admins do not have to use all the tools or work in all areas. We need more admins.
 * 1) What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?
 * Basically the main attribute is calmness. Administrators need to have time to think things through. I suspect the worst admin decisions are those done by admins trying to do too much.

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:


 * 1) Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?
 * I vote fairly frequently when I see an editor I know who is nominated. I do not contribute if I know nothing about the editor. I do not have the time to get to know an editor from scratch, but I can find the time to further research those editors I have already come across. As it happens I have not recently commented on a nomination, because I have not come across one for an editor I know.
 * 1) Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?
 * Yes. I was nominated by a very good admin, who did an excellent nomination. I cleared the barrier with no hassle.
 * 1) Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
 * I think it seems to get more complicated and more difficult with time. I hope this review can reverse that trend

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This question page was generated by RFAReview at 03:24 on 21 June 2008.