User:Plutonium27/RfA review

Plutonium27 (a fascinated lurker) and the rfa process:

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[edit]

When thinking about the adminship process, what are your thoughts and opinions about the following areas:

Candidate selection (inviting someone to stand as a candidate)
...Too much fuzzy-nice special-snowflake on blatantly unqualified candidates, especially the very young. WP:BITE criteria has gone too far to the other side, resulting in anyone who rejects an rfa from an 11 yr old and cites age as a reason gets knocked for it (example from May coming). Proud parents do enough to push their kids into false-hope beliefs of equal participation in the adult world and we shouldn't facilitate this pc-esque puffery. Wikipedia has to be a place where demonstrable maturity of intellect and the means and desire to implement rigorous standards pertaining to content must transcend the social-space desire of nicey-nice. This regrettable ascendancy of fellings over thinking also extends to an often-absurd over-assumption of good faith too (example coming)*.

Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
...Is becoming a cabalist nod-in for the bossy gang. The answers to the questions are so blatantly politicised (see Wisdom89's last attempt for a glaring example which fotunately failed - this was the reason largely cited too - will link asap)*. Article-builders are not represented and the requirement for such a broad detailed involvement ina dmin areas inevitably leads to those who spend most of their time in sysop pronouncement - instead of enc-build or just mopping the less i-will-have-my-way sides of things.#Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)

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Advertising and canvassing
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Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)
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Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
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Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
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Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
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Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
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Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
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When thinking about adminship in general, what are your thoughts and opinions about the following areas:

How do you view the role of an administrator?
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What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?
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Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:

Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?
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Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?
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Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
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Once you're finished...[edit]

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This question page was generated by {{RFAReview}} at 16:56 on 21 June 2008.