User:EWS23/RFA

These are my criteria for requests for adminship. In the past I have not felt the need for these, but I also found myself voting more with my heart than with my head, and using the same arbitrary criteria that others used. While I reserve the right to abstain from voting in any RfA, if I do vote in your RfA, you will receive my support if I feel I can answer YES to all of the following questions.


 * 1) Can the user be trusted to not abuse the administrator tools?
 * 2) Has the user shown adequate knowledge of policy? (Note: This does not mean, "Does the user have X amount of Wikipedia edits?")
 * 3) Is the user civil?

Conversely, if I feel that I must answer no to one or more of these questions, I may vote neutral or oppose.

While RfA is not technically a vote, in many ways it operates as one, and using the word "vote" is simpler than trying to find some longer, politically correct word.