User:Ward3001/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:

Candidate selection (inviting someone to stand as a candidate)
...No problem.
Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
...Not sure. Depends on the coaches. Most current admins would not make good coaches. There needs to be a process to determine who the best coaches are.
Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)
...No problem.
Advertising and canvassing
...Don't allow it.
Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)
...No problem.
Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
...No problem.
Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
...No problem.
Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
...No problem.
Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
...Post-election training should be required of all admins, regardless of how much experience they have.
Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
...All admins should be required to be re-nominated and go through the RfA process at least once per year, more often if enough editors request it.

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?
...Most are vandal-protectors. Most admins are not interested in building a quality encyclopedia, but are mostly focused on restricting the few quality writers. They're too afraid of stepping on toes, thus allowing vandals, especially anon vandals, to repeatedly degrade the quality of Wikipedia with apparent impunity.
What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?
...Courage to do what is best for Wikipedia rather what's best for themselves or any individual editor.

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:

Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?
...Yes. No problem.
Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?
...No.
Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
...Get Jimbo Wales off of Wikipedia. Admins should have no communication with him, and if he wants to edit, he should do it under a different username.

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This question page was generated by {{RFAReview}} at 00:56 on 24 June 2008.