User:Fattyjwoods/RfA review

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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)
I think that the candidate should have no negative contributions (vandalism, blocks etc.) recently (6-12 months). Should have done some work (6 months at least and at least 3000 edits).
Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
Admin coaching I think is a very good way to help potential candidates on his/her way on becoming an admin. For those who would like to become one admin coaching can help out a grate lot. If I ever get nominated I would most certainly go through the coaching process before I accepted
Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)
I see no problem here, although some prima facie examples of “opposition” have been voiced over self-nomination. I personally don’t see anything wrong with self-noms, as long as they fit into the criteria
Advertising and canvassing
Canvassing should not be employed on mass like spam, but I don’t see why a small short note dropped on a few user talk pages saying “hey, I’ve got a RfA why don’t you check it out.” What I don’t think is acceptable is “Vote for me! Vote for me!” using AWB or a bot on hundreds of talk pages. An alternative is to put a RfA notice on your userpages – people browsing through will see it and vote accordingly.
Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)
No problems with this I don’t think
Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
I think that users can have their own opinions on whatever issue is brought up. Although there almost always is someone at an RfA that smacks a big fat oppose supplying the reason of “it’s a self-nom” or “I don’t like them”.
Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
I see no problem with the process now. You can withdraw if you don’t want it to carry on but if it’s going to snow I suggest pulling out would be a better option.
Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
Im not very familiar with this process but Ill give it a try. If it’s a obvious pile on then sure go ahead, but otherwise I would suggest let it run. Also leave it to the bearucrats to sort these things out and to strike through sock votes and block the sock.
Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
Very useful, helps out with new admins a lot.
Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
Recall is not very useful as there are other ways of desysoping, but it gives voters a sense of… Im not sure how to describe it but its like a peace of mind. That you know that the admin will happily give up the buttons if the community decides to desysop him/her.

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?
More responsibility required as more tools are given out. The community looks up to admins as a source of help so admins need to be friendly, fair and helpful.
What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?
Calm, cool-headed, easy to talk to, helpful

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:

Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?
Yes, most have been supports, but sometimes theres just far too much drama involved it hard to decide who’s wrong and who’s right
Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?
No I haven’t yet.
Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
I think it’s fine really, well organised.

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