Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
To be honest I am not a huge fan of self-nominations
for adminship
anyway. I turned down three nominations before accepting one, and had
to be persuaded even then. Are we sure that Tyrenuis' assessment of
his own fitness for adminship is objective? Not that I'm saying he
would not be a good admin, but it seems to me that the people who get
given admin tools are generally the ones who are seen to be likely to
use them, those who are active in countering vandalism, cleaning up,
stopping wars, finding vanity and spam articles and so on. If someone
is not doing these things, why do they need the Wikimop? If they are
doing these things, they will get noticed.
Self-nomination shouldn't be an issue if the standards for being an
admin are otherwise the same. Self-nominating is nothing more and
nothing less than letting the community know what one wants.
I think that you put undue emphasis on ferretting out the wrongdoesrs.
I would be very suspicious of a candidate who does nothing but that, and
does very little to contribute to actual articles. How can a person
understand NPOV when he has no direct NPOV edits to his credit? The
primary goal of Wikipedia is to build an encyclopedia; while it remains
important to deal with vandalism that must still remain a secondary and
incidental goal.
Ec