User:Grubber/RfA review

Welcome to the Question phase of RfA Review. We hope you'll take the time to respond to your questions in order to give us further understanding of what you think of the RfA process. Remember, there are no right or wrong answers here. Also, feel free to answer as many questions as you like. Don't feel you have to tackle everything if you don't want to.

In a departure from the normal support and oppose responses, this review will focus on your thoughts, opinions and concerns. Where possible, you are encouraged to provide examples, references, diffs and so on in order to support your viewpoint. Please note that at this point we are not asking you to recommend possible remedies or solutions for any problems you describe, as that will come later in the 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)
 * 2) Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
 * 3) Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)
 * 4) Advertising and canvassing
 * 5) Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)
 * 6) Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
 * 7) Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
 * 8) Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
 * 9) Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
 * 10) Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
 * 1) Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
 * 2) Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
 * 3) Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
 * 4) Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
 * 5) 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)
 * 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?
 * Adminship should be much more easily granted (there is way too much admin-only work to be done) and should be much easier to take away (easy granting balanced by easy revocation). Adminship abuse is EXTREMELY visible, and I think too many people are worried about the "dangers" that granting adminship could have. It's not that big a deal, in my opinion.
 * 1) What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?
 * An admin should be trustworthy (they have extra "powers") and enthusiastic about the project.

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:


 * 1) Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?
 * Frustrating.
 * 1) Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?
 * Super frustrating.
 * 1) Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
 * Wikipedia is such a large project that a person can only participate in a small corner of it. Some like editting, some like doing maintanance, others like the process behind it all. The RfA process is inhabited by a small group that have converged on somewhat arbitrary rules. Rather than "can we trust this editor" being the driving process, the process is ruled by minimum edit counts, namespace edit distributions ("were most of his edits in the so-and-so namespace"), and other stupid rules.

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This question page was generated by RFAReview at 22:35 on 28 June 2008.