User talk:DangerousPanda/RFA2/RFA Core Questions

Draft core questions
Q1 What administrative work do you intend to take part in?
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Q2 What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
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Q3 Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
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Q4 If you were to be granted administrator status, will you make yourself subject to recall? Why or why not?
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Q5 If you were reviewing someone's request for permissions, and you saw that they had been blocked in the past, how would you go about determining the outcome of their request? Would the amount of time be important, or just their contributions since the block(s)?
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 * Possibly one of the weaker/unneccessary q's (✉→BWilkins←✎) 18:30, 8 November 2012 (UTC)


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Q6 If you saw a new editor placing admin templates on his/her userpage, or otherwise claiming to be an administrator when they clearly are not, what actions, if any, would you take? What if it was a more established user?
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 * The other of the weaker/unneccessary q's (✉→BWilkins←✎) 18:30, 8 November 2012 (UTC)


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Q7 Can you describe some of the work that you have previously performed on Wikipedia in areas that typically require some form of administrator intervention, such as Articles for Deletion, Candidates for Speedy Deletion, Administrator Intervention against Vandalism?


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Q8 How would you personally determine whether you are involved in any particular situation when deciding whether you should block (or unblock) an editor, and when deciding whether you should protect (or unprotect) a page?
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Q9 How do you determine consensus from a discussion? And how may it be determined differently concerning an RfC, an RM, an XfD, or a DRV?
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Q10 Dispute resolution is an important issue and one admins should have a good grasp of. As an editor in the last year, could you provide some examples where you helped to resolve a dispute that was between two or more editors for any reason, including content, conduct or behavior?
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Q11 Finally, why do you wish to be an administrator?
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 * The average answer to Q1 usually covers this, and I find it redundant to add it again. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 23:39, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Q1 is supposed to list "technical" things...Q11 is supposed to be a personal response as in, "what is it that is drawing you to RFA to be an admin" (✉→BWilkins←✎) 09:54, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
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Other comments on the questions
IMHO, there should be a maximum of about 10 core questions asked to the candidate - otherwise, they're simply writing an essay :-) (✉→BWilkins←✎) 12:51, 7 November 2012 (UTC)