On 1/3/06, Ben Emmel bratsche1@gmail.com wrote:
I am noticing some of the same issues: Users are slipping through RfA without much opposition, but without much community support either. They seem to be decent editors, mostly doing work in a small area of Wikipedia, and when (self)nominated for adminship, they get their "Wikifriends" to support them, and boom! admin tools. Inevitably, wheel warring (large or small) will happen from these admins, because they actually don't understand or generally support the long-standing policies that we have here.
I don't like saying this, but the scenario described eerily mirrors my own nomination. (Except for the "Wikifriends" part. I knew few of the users who voted for me.) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Wikiacc)