User:FT2/RfA review

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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)
 * 2) Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
 * New editors are often keen to add to the project with enthusiasm. We need to pick up on that and foster it, and educate on what works, what doesn't. Most people pick that up by osmosis, but clear guidance and advise is usually helpful. What isn't helpful is pre-packed "planned" answers, but those wouldn't carry great weight if people examining suitability at RFA concentrated less on cross-examination and more on conduct and approach which are often well evidenced on the wiki, or had some form of 3 month "easy recall" once RFA was passed.
 * 1) Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)
 * There is still a proportion of users who feel self-selection is a reason to oppose. Whilst status-seeking is a problem, many good candidates may be deterred by apprehension over the RFA process, or deterred from self-nomination.
 * 1) Advertising and canvassing
 * users who know the candidate best may never hear they have sought RFA. A prominent box to put at the end of their userpage, that states "this user is at RFA, please comment" would be no bad thing. A number of RFAs have been disrupted by pile-on actions though, and part of candidate assessment is to reckon whether a matter that got 10 complaints really is sufficient to merit rejection, and how big an issue it really is.
 * 1) Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)
 * 2) Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
 * 3) Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
 * 4) Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
 * 5) Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
 * 6) Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
 * 1) Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
 * 2) Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
 * 3) Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
 * 1) Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
 * 2) Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
 * 1) Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)

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?
 * 2) What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?
 * 1) What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:


 * 1) Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?
 * 2) Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?
 * 3) Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
 * 1) Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
 * 1) Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?

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This question page was generated by RFAReview at 17:59 on 13 June 2008.

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