User:Keeper76/RfA

My criteria for supporting an RfA

Likes

CLUE + at least 4 months tenure + clean talkpage + communicative + content focused + reasonably clean block log = support

Lack of the majority of the above will put me in neutral, abstention, or if significant, oppose.

Dislikes

Potential dislikes, if not balanced out, include:

• overzealous use of automated tools
• overly focused on removing things from Wikipedia instead of adding things
• overly zealous about adminship itself
• over-contributing to your own RFA (particularly the oppose section)
• combativeness
• legalism
• overly chatty (I know, ironic init?)
• over-barnstarred

Non-issues

• Edit count
• self-noms
• coaching/mentorship
• optional questions (I rarely read them)
• nominator's statement or nominator's status
• gnome v. FA writer (both show content dedication in their own way)
• specialists v. generalists

Virtually Guaranteed Opposes

• Blocked twice (legitimately) for the same thing (evidence of not being able to learn and grow)
• Less than 1000 edits
• Less than 3 months "quality editing"

In general

I generally default to support, we need more admins, and RFA sucks. I would guess that I support around 80-90% of RFAs that I participate in. Every rule has an exception (or three), and every editor is different, with a different learning curve, and a different talent set.

Coaching and mentoring

I have officially "retired" from WP:ADCO, as I am no longer "coaching" with the specific intent of helping someone gain adminship. There are good coaches, and good coachees, I'm just no longer one of them.

Past coachees

• User:Tanthalas39 | User:Tanthalas39/AC.
• User:Dihydrogen Monoxide | User:Dihydrogen Monoxide/admin coaching.

Specialized mentoring

• User:Dustihowe, specifically AFD/deletion discussion improvement, User:Dustihowe/AFD Coaching.

Promising new program

• User:Pedro/Mentoring

Past nominations

1. User:Alex.muller, passed Feb 2008
2. User:Tanthalas39, failed Mar 2008

   User:Tanthalas39, passed 10Jun2008

3. User:Martijn Hoekstra, passed April 2008
4. User:Jza84, passed 21May08
5. User:Travellingcari, passed 22May08
6. User:Malleus Fatuarum, withdrawn 21May08
7. User:Fritzpoll, passed 27May08
8. User:Ddstretch, passed 6Jun08
9. User:Cenarium, currently at RfA (ends 17Jun)

Editors I'm watching or have offered to nominate

1. Gwynand (talk · contribs)
2. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk · contribs)
3. SheffieldSteel (talk · contribs)
4. Enigmaman (talk · contribs)
5. Gladys j cortez (talk · contribs)

As a general rule, I will not nominate someone that comes to my talkpage asking me to nominate them, regardless of quality of contribs. I'll find you (or someone else will) eventually, and the best candidates in my experience really are those that are just "going about their business" and are in need of extra tools to "go about their business".

Other editors I've looked over contribs for, and will likely pursue in the next few months {disclaimer}, it isn't that they aren't necessarily ready now, just that I've never communicated with them directly about adminship...)

1. Oren0 (talk · contribs)
2. Gazimoff (talk · contribs)