User talk:Scott Gall/Admin criterion

Ageism
Opposing a candidate on the basis of their age is completely inappropriate and extremely POV. For one thing, there is no way to prove how old a candidate is. They certainly do not have to reveal their age. I happen to feel that age has absolutely no bearing on the performance of an administrator as long as they know what they're doing. I would vote for an eight year old if I was happy with their work on Wikipedia. The type of wisdom and experience gained with adulthood does not necessarily aid a Wikipedia administrator in any significant way over those who may not have gained it yet. Of course your vote is your own choice but I just wanted to voice my distaste for admin criteria. There are so many different ways contributors help to improve Wikipedia that trying to fit a standard admin criteria to each user is not very fair or effective. &mdash; oo64eva (Alex) (U @ 08:27, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

Question about your Admin criterion
After reading your criteria for admin, I have a major question: Assuming that candidates post on their user pages all of these things on your list such as:
 * 1) If a candidate does or does not smoke marijuana or other illegal substances for recreational reasons.
 * 2) If a candidate knows the words to their own country's national anthems plus two more.
 * 3) A candidate's criminal record at time of nomination.

How can you verify all of them, especially the three I just mentioned? Zzyzx11 (Talk) 11:16, 18 May 2005 (UTC)


 * I'd have thought the second one was easy - you just post them onto your talk page, don't you? It's a bit unfair on any Spanish users though - how are they meant to learn the words to their anthem? It's interesting to see that pot-smokers are out, but heroin-injectors and coke-snorters are in though :) jguk 18:20, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Joke?
This has to be a joke, right? That last criterion is kind of funny. If I'm up for adminship, then I have to put a link to your criteria on my user page before you'll support? LOL! Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 15:05, May 18, 2005 (UTC)


 * I liked the first criterion best. I mean, I'm 19 so I must need my adminship revoked, right? ;) Mike H 16:16, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Scott, currently your user page says, "If I ever get sysop status, I will chase down every vandal and make sure they pay dearly for their actions". To me, it sounds like you might want to be an admin at some point. And yet, you wrote on your admin criterion, "This means I oppose myself"'. Are you contradicting yourself, or am I missing something? Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:02, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, He is 16, so it would be another five years before he believes he should be an admin. &mdash; oo64eva (Alex) (U @ 05:13, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

Anti marijuana?
You are against users of illegal drugs? Strange, you know that tobaco kills 300,000 people per year adn alcohol kills 100,000 per year... drugs kill only 3,500... marijuana is not addictive unlike cigarettes and alcohol and its never killed anyone.

It really anoys me that its illegal to take canibis and not smoke cigarettes... the law doesnt make any sence!

and no I dont use marijuana, I'm anti drugs, though much more dangerous drugs, like tobaco and alcohol, are legal...

hope I have freed your mind!