User:J Milburn/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)
 * I have no desire to personally nominate anyone at the moment, but I feel that inviting people to be a candidate is a good idea, and works.
 * 1) Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
 * Informal admin coaching (chatting to a current admin about how things are actually done) is good, but I get the feeling that 'formal' admin coaching is geared too much towards teaching people how to pass.
 * 1) Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)
 * Long nominations are often dull (I sometimes don't even finish really long ones) and I prefer reading the candidate's own thoughts to those of someone else.
 * 1) Advertising and canvassing
 * No thoughts, I may answer this at a later date.
 * 1) Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)
 * A good idea, and good the way it is done at the moment. I think it's a shame that the optional questions aren't really optional, but I don't think there are too many questions.
 * 1) Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
 * The way it is done now is fairly good.
 * 1) Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
 * I have no issues with that.
 * 1) Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
 * Providing reasons are provided in borderline cases, and the bureaucrat actually makes a decision that reflects the consensus of the discussion, I have no issues.
 * 1) Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
 * A good idea.
 * 1) Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
 * A fairly good idea, but I think it's a shame that people consider it such an important thing- not putting yourself open to recall should not be considered as a bad thing.

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?
 * Too broad a question.
 * 1) What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?
 * Intelligence, reliability, trustworthiness, experience, ability (in terms of actually being able to write articles and articulate themselves)

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:


 * 1) Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?
 * Many times. I do feel my comments have been disregarded once or twice, but that doesn't bother me too much.
 * 1) Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?
 * Twice. First time, I was very politely told to come back later, and given some very good advice. (I think people are a lot more aggressive now). Second time, I passed- few people took part, but I feel the process was fairly secure.
 * 1) Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
 * I feel it is far harder to pass now than it was.

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This question page was generated by RFAReview at 10:15 on 21 June 2008.