User:The Utahraptor/RfA criteria

This is a subpage describing what qualifications I think an RfA candidate must have in order to succeed. Some may agree, others may disagree. I am open to suggestions for improvement, so feel free to send me a message if you see anything that I could improve on.

In order to earn my support, an RfA candidate must:


 * 1) Have no warnings for vandalism within the past year;
 * 2) Know all of Wikipedia's core policies;
 * 3) Have no civility problems within the past six months;
 * 4) Have experience in administrator-related areas, such as WP:AIV, WP:RPP, WP:AFD, etc.
 * 5) Have no record of engaging in an edit war within the past year;
 * 6) Have at least six months of experience;
 * 7) Be able to abide by Wikipedia's policies;
 * 8) Not run for adminship within three-six months of failing;
 * 9) Understand basic wikimarkup;
 * 10) Be able to do maintenance tasks;
 * 11) Be mature;
 * 12) Not argue with opposers (agreeing to disagree is fine);
 * 13) Use edit summaries for at least 70% of both major and minor edits;
 * 14) Have at least 30% of their edits be to the article namespace;
 * 15) Not have over 30% of their edits be to their user namespace;
 * 16) Know how to deal with stressful situations in a civilized way;
 * 17) Demonstrate knowledge of policy with their answers to the optional questions;
 * 18) Have written at least three articles (not including stubs);
 * 19) Demonstrate the ability to establish consensus and;
 * 20) Not have been reported to Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents or Wikiquette alerts within the past year.