User:Johnbod/RfA review

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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)
... No issues with this
Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
... I don't know much about it, but many editors I respect seem to be getting increasingly concerned with how it works in practice.
Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)
... Fine, but keep it short.
Advertising and canvassing
... Present rules, & strong prejudice against it, seem about right. of course there is always the evil IRC.
Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)
... Not too many please.
Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
... Happy with present procedures, though too much heckling of (normally) opposes & neutrals - this should be discouraged unless new "evidence" is being produced.
Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
... their business
Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
... no problems with normal closes - seems to work well. Not sure about Not Now - plenty of applications that look sure to succeed after 2 days fail, & I suspect the opposite is just as possible - but if they are well-meaningly closed, we'll never know.
Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
...seems a good idea
Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
... a better standard procedure, whether voluntary or not, is needed. It is rather too hard to remove an admin, I suspect.

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?
...er blughbh
What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?
...polite superhero, with content-building experience, or a very solid technical/images/whatever specialism

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:

Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?
...Yes, often, but intermitently. Nowadays I usually don't pile on if I've never come across the person, & they seem obviously on the way to succeed, so I vote a relatively high % of opposes, but actually many others have my silent support.
Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?
...No, & no intention of ever doing so. I was first nom on a successful request once.
Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
...It can be unfair on editors who have been around long enough, and active enough, to annoy certain users.

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This question page was generated by {{RFAReview}} at 01:31 on 22 June 2008.