On 10/6/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Some adminship requests get opposed because the user aren't familiar in a specific field of administrator work. If we could specifically give people the tools they have the knowledge for, more requests would succeed. Perhaps it's time to run that plan to give people separate admin tools.
I think it's somewhat ridiculous to oppose an admin candidate for not showing obvious familiarity with some aspect of admin work that s/he may not even be interested in. (Opposing for showing that someone has repeatedly gone about it all wrong is a different matter.) I expect that anyone who has acted reasonably and responsibly in whatever they have done to that point will not suddenly go crazy when approaching a new task, and whatever beginners' mistakes may be made by someone who is generally acting like a reasonable person are probably easy to fix. No one should *have* to know everything before becoming an admin, just show themselves willing and able to find out how to do something before doing it.
-Kat who would be content to have adminship only for deleting and viewing deleted pages, really