User:Kmweber/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)

   Should be open to anyone.

2. Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)

   Bad idea. Leads to viewing it as a game to be won, rather than a job to be done.

3. Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)

   No problem with any of them.

4. Advertising and canvassing

   Perfectly fine, if a bit obnoxious.

5. Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)

   Duh.

6. Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)

   Should be a straight-up vote.

7. Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)

   If he wants to save himself and everyone else the heartache, more power to him.

8. Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)

   Without an explicit withdrawal by the candidate, and barring truly extraordinary circumstances (blocking of the candidate that is upheld by the community at large, etc.), it should be left to run its course.

9. Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)

   Not necessary.

10. Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)

    Should be mandatory. They are servants of the community, and serve at the community's pleasure.

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?

   A servant.

2. What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?

   Humility, a thick skin, and a lack of rule-bound thinking.

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:

1. Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?

   Yup, and no problem.

2. Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?

   Yes, and I shouldn't have. I got what I deserved.

3. Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?

   It needs to be trashed completely. See User:Kmweber/Servantship Reform for a better process.

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This question page was generated by {{RFAReview}} at 16:37 on 30 June 2008.