User:Lyrl/RfA review

Questions

When thinking about the adminship process, what are your thoughts and opinions about the following areas:

1. Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
2. Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)

   People who are made administrators are people greatly interested in improving Wikipedia. No formal "training"/"schooling" process should be necessary: administrators should be self-starters who actively seek out information and advice in areas they are working in. Pointing new administrators toward resources such as Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list and User:Mindspillage/admin is certainly desirable, but mandatory school-type processes would be a waste of Wikipedia's resources.

1. Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)

   Administrators need to be concentrating on working on the encyclopedia, not campaigning to keep their status. Living in the U.S., I see the eternal campaigns for federal office. That is something I never want to see on Wikipedia. Because of the very low level of abusive admins, leaving the job of de-admining to the Arbitration Committee is working just fine. Many complain ArbCom is too slow, which would be a legitimate complaint if there were frequent cases of admin abuse. Should such cases become overwhelming to ArbCom, then we would need a new system. But currently, don't fix what isn't broken.

When thinking about adminship in general, what are your thoughts and opinions about the following areas:

1. How do you view the role of an administrator?

   The administrator should contribute to Wikipedia, just like all editors. They have been trusted to contribute in sensitive areas of the encyclopedia, and certainly their efforts in clearing admin backlogs are encouraged. But in general, an admin does not really hold a different role than a normal editor.

2. What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?

   Because they are trusted to work in sensitive areas, admins must show consistent good judgment (although of course no one is perfect), including in conflict situations.

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:

1. Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?

   No

2. Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?

   Yes, and my experience was fairly positive. Several voters expressed the opinion that I should not be an admin because I would not actively use admin powers on a regular basis (which has been true). I feel like the times I have used my admin buttons have benefited the encyclopedia, however, and am frustrated that low activity is viewed by some as worse than nothing at all.

3. Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?

   No

This question page was generated by {{RFAReview}} at 14:24 on 22 June 2008.