User:EWS23/RFA

These are my criteria for requests for adminship. In the past I have not felt the need for these, but I also found myself voting^[1] more with my heart than with my head, and using the same arbitrary criteria that others used. While I reserve the right to abstain from voting in any RfA, if I do vote in your RfA, you will receive my support if I feel I can answer YES to all of the following questions.

1. Can the user be trusted to not abuse the administrator tools?
2. Has the user shown adequate knowledge of policy? (Note: This does not mean, "Does the user have X amount of Wikipedia edits?")
3. Is the user civil?

Conversely, if I feel that I must answer no to one or more of these questions, I may vote neutral or oppose.

^ While RfA is not technically a vote, in many ways it operates as one, and using the word "vote" is simpler than trying to find some longer, politically correct word.