User:Garion96/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)
 * Is ok. I do think the whole process makes that many editors decline when asked.
 * 1) Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
 * Can help, but the feeling I get is that it is more focused on passing wp:rfa than getting expertise in admin area's. Of course, the almost impossible way to pass rfa process does not help there.
 * 1) Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)
 * Nominations are good, Self-nominations are good. Co-noms are bad, they make the page too large for instance. Just one nomination and the rest simply can support.
 * 1) Advertising and canvassing
 * Can have bad effects, just a note on the candidate's user page seems enough.
 * 1) Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)
 * Questions are ok, but lately it is getting excessive. Limiting questions would be good, but how do decide which questions will be asked and which will be not.
 * 1) Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
 * Support means you have no reason the candidate will abuse the tools. When oppose you have to explain why.
 * 1) Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
 * Whatever the candidate wants.
 * 1) Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
 * More ignoring bad opposes would be nice.
 * 1) Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
 * On volunteer basis, can be useful if new admin wants too.
 * 1) Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
 * In theory could be good, but will in fact only gain lynch mobs.

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?
 * Janitor.
 * 1) What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?
 * Masochism?

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:


 * 1) Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?
 * Lousy opposes.
 * 1) Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?
 * Yes, which wasn't too bad actually, the extra questions were kind of pointless. Just a link to the actual policy in my anseers there would have been enough.
 * 1) Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
 * 1: Backlogs everywhere, we need more admins. 2: It was said in 2003, but in 2008 it still stands, adminship is no big deal.

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This question page was generated by RFAReview at 23:18 on 28 June 2008.