User:Stevenfruitsmaak/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)
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Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
Good thing it exists.
Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)
Should all be allowed.
Advertising and canvassing
To some degree are necessary to attract attention of fellow wikipedians.
Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)
Can be useful but often exaggerated and too difficult, so as to prove the candidate doesn't know all policy details.
Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
Adminship is too much regarded as a big thing by voters.
Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
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Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
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Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
Good thing it exists.
Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
Good thing it exists.

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?
A janitor who performs routine tasks and should not be higher regarded as an experienced editor.
What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?
Serenity, wisdom, communication skills, spare time.

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:

Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?
Yes, I had the chance to support some of the editors I came to know, and most of them were successful in their requests.
Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?
Not here in WP, I am an admin on Wikinews. RfA is made a fuss here, we're more laid back about it on Wikinews.
Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
Maybe we should have a clearer listing of our current human resources, i.e. length of different types of admin backlogs and workload for vandal fighters, so voters can judge if there is a need for admins wanting to perform a certain task.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 15:36, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

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