User:Tswsl1989/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.

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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)
 * From my understanding of the process, I don't think that there are any problems regarding candidate selection
 * 1) Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
 * This should be encouraged, but not obligatory, before someone is nominated
 * 1) Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)
 * The current system seems to be flexible enough to allow the process to be open to all Wikipedians. I don't see that it needs to be changed
 * 1) Advertising and canvassing
 * Not enough knowledge of this to make a meaningful comment
 * 1) Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)
 * Is a reasonable phase to incclude, provided questioning is not overly agressive or adversarial.
 * 1) Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
 * Fine
 * 1) Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
 * Fine, although I do disagree with the use of WP:SNOW as justification for withdrawral\closure
 * 1) Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
 * As Above
 * 1) Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
 * Not enough knowledge to comment
 * 1) Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
 * Personally, I think that this is a good idea in terms of accountability, but would prefer to see the format as follows:
 * Editors nominate admin for recall by notifyin that admin
 * Admins then decided to confirm\reconfirm admin status or not
 * Editors then notified of Recall decision
 * However, the community does need to haves it's say, so I can understand why the current mechanism has consensus.

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?
 * A trusted person, responsible to their conscience and to others for the maintenance of Wikipedia and the community that it constitutes.
 * 1) What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?
 * Trusted by the community, and respected for their opinion. Able to act decisively, but without stampeding over others opinions. Levelheaded and maintains an appropriate attitude in the course of their duties as an admin

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:


 * 1) Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?
 * Once, that candidate was unsuccessful. Although I can understand why the vote went the way it did, I think that there was too much history between the candidate and other editors (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/PaxEquilibrium). I haven't been that active on Wikipedia since shortly after that (unrelated circumstances), so haven't voted in an RfA since
 * 1) Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?
 * No. Maybe someday
 * 1) Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
 * Not at this time

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This question page was generated by RFAReview at 10:42 on 25 June 2008.