User:Martijn Hoekstra/Recall

I believe that there should be a uniform way in which the admin tools can be revoked. Currently, there is no such procedure. Any administrator is free to choose any way they see fit, including no way at all. That's broken. Keeping the WP:RECALL category will slow down the process to better accountability, and any admin in the category will make abandoning this way of dealing with recall more difficult. Therefore, for now I will not be in the category until its conditions change significantly. I will be open to recall though. The conditions are set out below.

My recall process

When five people who have written at least one FA or two GA's request I step down, I will. If you think I should step down, please first try to talk to me first, and see if we can work things out together. Just start a section on my talk page or AN. When five requests for my recall from people who meet those criteria remain in place for two weeks, it is my explicit request that a bureaucrat flips the admin bit on this account, even if by that time I start making objections. Others can obviously weigh in at such a discussion, but don't count towards the five. You don't have to meet the criteria to initiate the whole thing.

The irony that I would not qualify as a person who could request my own recall doesn't escape me.