User:UKMan/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)
 * Anyone who demonstrates a real and continued interest in a topic while also demonstrating interest in fair and reasonable debate within the Wikipedia guidelines.
 * 1) Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
 * I need it as much as anyone. Informal could be tricky but maybe a reference system would help.
 * 1) Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)
 * Wikipedia is big and broad and most people are not directly known to each other. Self-nomination is crucial (as are reasonable tests).
 * 1) Advertising and canvassing
 * This is definitely not the place.
 * 1) Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)
 * Love it.
 * 1) Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
 * Love it.
 * 1) Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
 * Probably a good idea to save some face sometimes.
 * 1) Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
 * Hmm. May also be needed to save face for those who have none.
 * 1) Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
 * As long as it's actually useful.
 * 1) Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
 * OK.

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?
 * To moderate, help the discussion along (without personal input), and enforce the Wikipedia guidelines
 * 1) What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?
 * Sense of patience. Ability to keep personal opinions private.

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:


 * 1) Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?
 * No.
 * 1) Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?
 * Submitted myself. Haven't heard anything back.
 * 1) Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
 * No doubt it's a tricky, multi-headed problem for those in charge. I hope Solomon is watching over you.

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This question page was generated by RFAReview at 21:27 on 23 June 2008.