User:Electriccatfish2/RFA Criteria

One of the areas that I participate in is Requests for Adminship. I have drafted my standards which I base my votes on below. I am also willing to nominate users who I feel are ready for adminship. If you would like a reivew/nomination, please email me or leave me a message on my talk page.

General Criteria

 * At least 6 months of active (at least 150 edits) editing and an edit count of at least 5,000.
 * 35% of edits in article space (mainspace).
 * A history free of vandalism and incivility (see section on blocks below).
 * At least 20 created articles, and it would be to your advantage if you had one or more DYKs, GAs, or FAs.
 * Willingness to help other editors.
 * Meeting the criteria listed below based on your answer to the first question in your RFA.

Anti-Vandal Admin
Due to the automated nature of vandal fighting, including the use of tools such as Huggle, Twinkle, STiki, and Igloo, vandal patroller-admins are expected to have a higher edit count. I personally do not care about your automated edits percentage, but I'd like to see at least 10,000 edits from vandal patroller-admins. I'd like to see an accuracy percentage of at least 99% while on Recent Changes Patrol, as well as at least 250 edits to AIV, UAA, and RFPP combined. It would be to your advantage if you helped out with the Edit Filter, including handling false positive reports, proposing changes to the filters. It would also be to your advantage if you helped out with the Abuse Response Team.

Speedy Deletion Admin
Perhaps one of the most difficult tasks for non-admins to do is New Page Patrolling. It requires a high level of policy knowledge and helps prepare prospective admin candidates for the job. One of the biggest responsibilities for New Page Patrollers is speedy deletion, so I'd like to see that you have an accuracy percentage of at least 95%. I'd prefer if you had a CSD log, but I'll check it up on Toolserver if you don't. Additionally, I'd like to see that you tag articles with PRODs/BLP-PRODs, as well as tag pages for improvement. Additionally, I'd like to see that you know the CSD criterion very well and tag with the appropriate one.

Deletion Discussion Admin
Perhaps one of the most important community processes is deletion discussions. I don't care which type of XFD you participate in, although I mainly participate in AFD. I'd like to see at least 150 !votes which show a knowledge of policy. I will oppose if I frequently see votes such as "Per Nom" or "Non-Notable". Additionally, I'd like to see at least Non-Admin Closure. A non-admin closure is to be done in crystal-clear situations only, and doesn't really demonstrate the ability to judge consensus, but I would like to see that you know how to close a deletion discussion. It would be to your advantage if you performed relists of deletion discussions to help generate a clearer consensus. Additionally, I'd like to see your ability to judge consensus by helping close RFCs from WP: AN/RFC.

SPI Admin
Perhaps one of the most delicate areas of Wikipedia is SPI. The admin tools often come in handy at SPI, especially with blocking sockpuppets and viewing deleted contributions. I'd like to see that you are a SPI Clerk and have a good track record there with a minimal amount of errors.

Dispute Resolution Admin
Perhaps one of the most difficult areas of Wikipedia is dispute resolution. I'd like to see that you are already active in dispute resolution. Perhaps you work at a dispute resolution noticeboard, such as DRN, BLP/N, or the like. Maybe you are a mediator for MEDCOM. I'd also like to see helpful comments at noticeboards such as WP: AN/I or WP: AN/EW. Lastly, it is imperative that you are civil and do not make personal attacks on other editors.

Blocks/Santctions
Ideally, an admin candidate should be block-free. I will, however ignore edit-warring blocks from over 3 months ago, disruptive editing blocks from over 6 months ago, incivility/personal attack blocks from over 9 months ago, and sockpuppetry and vandalism blocks from over a year ago. I'd prefer that you are not subject to any sanctions, also. I don't care if you were previously taken to a noticeboard, as long as you were not blocked or subject to any sanctions as a result to it. If you were stripped of any user rights for misuse, I will not support you for at least a year after the removal of those rights. By submitting an RFA, you are requesting much more "powerful" tools, and not being able to be trusted with minor bits is a red flag.

Good Luck! Electric Catfish (talk) 18:07, 25 September 2012 (UTC)