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Wikipedia:RfA reform 2012/Problems/Snow and NOTNOW candidates

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One of the most basic problems in RfA is the high prevalence of SNOW and NOTNOW Candidates

Statistics

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% of unsuccessful candidates who are NOTNOW or SNOW
Month\Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
January 31 53 45 57 33
February 40 38 38 57 67
March 51 46 54 67 80
April 3 37 30 75 72 44
May 11 51 33 67 27 14
June 20 48 63 61 57
July 8 27 52 54 40
August 33 32 48 57 50
September 26 20 45 25 100
October 41 30 37 31 80
November 46 58 55 11 20
December 33 52 50 42 50

Steps being taken to solve the problem

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Options

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A special protection at RFA such that editors with <1500 edits and/or less than 6 months tenure can't transclude nominations. That wouldn't prevent nominators making exceptions, but it would stop self noms who will snow fail - by the time someone has 1500 edits they have probably learned enough to know not to run till they are ready). ϢereSpielChequers 11:09, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]