User talk:Oddbodz/WikiProject Admin Recruitment

How to go about it
I've added my name to  this project but  i  would like to  see some concrete suggestions. I've answered dozens of reqeusts for advice and nominations over the years, and made offline attempts at recruiting  many  more users of the right  calibre, but  I  still  keep  coming  up with  the same results: The vast  majority  of those who  ask me for advice or outright  nomination are just  no  where near ready  for adminship, while those whom  I  have contacted nearly  all  say  that  obtaining  the the tools is not  worth  going through  the RfA process -  and I'm  talking  about  users who  would have a clear, uncontentious pass. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:28, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Would this page be useful for this project? Should we actively pursue prospective candidates or are we supposed to wait for them come to us? AutomaticStrikeout (₵) 01:23, 29 November 2013 (UTC)


 * While I assume good faith  on  the creation  of any  such  pages, I  do  not  belive that  page would be of particular help. A  while back, we created this page but  as you'll  see if you  examine the list  of participants, some of them  may  not  have the required experience themselves to be doing  this. Those who have, have garnered the same results as I  have described above. We  are constantly  searching  for suitable candidates, but  as this deliberately  takes place over email, it  may  look  as if nothing  is being  done. One thing  is for sure however: those who  have the 'I want  to  be an admin some day' userbox on  their user pages are mostly, for obvious reasons,  on  the bottom  of the list. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:53, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Ok, so we are now back to the question(s) of what this project can do and how we would do it. AutomaticStrikeout (₵) 01:58, 29 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Frankly, I don't  know. As you  know, I  spearheaded RfA reform for a long  time and still  comment  regularly  at  WT:RfA, but  over the years I've exhausted all  my  ideas. Because I (and others)  have the evidence (which  we  cannot  disclose on-Wiki), I  remain  firmly  convinced that  the only  solution  is for RfA to  become less intimidating. This does not  however necessarily  mean lowering  the bar. The majority  of posters at  WT:RfA appear to  do  little else than repeatedly  complain  about  admins in  general, and those who  do  have ideas seem  to  be reluctant  to  offer them to  to  community  through  RfC. That said, it  does appear as if the process is slowly  cleaning  itself up, but  there are still  too  few RfAs to  clearly  demonstrate such  a trend. Perhaps when we have another six months of RfAs without  any  stupid votes or comments, we'll  know more. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:59, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Not much...
... is happening here. AutomaticStrikeout (₵) 20:37, 5 December 2013 (UTC)