On 29/02/2008, Alex Sawczynec <glasscobra15(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Screamer <scream(a)datascreamer.com> wrote:
I post this to the working list, because I want
to opine, and I want to
draw some attention to what I believe is a bad trend. I've read some
RFA's and the recent RFB. I asked Riana if I could use her RFB as an
example. I'm not asking anyone to go support or oppose it, you all can
do that on your on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_bureaucratship/Riana
When I look at some of the opposes and Neutrals, primarily the ones by
Animate and FM, I get a little confused. (regarding the KM nomination)
Since when did RFA and RFB become political and not about trust and
abuse potential? It seems these discussions have evolved away from
that. After reading Jimbo's opinion on the matter, and this was made,
what a few years back, perhaps he should go semi nilly willy.
I mean what do you have to do anyway, judge RFA, renames, bots on advice
of BAG. How does kelly martins rfa nomination translate here. It does
not.
Any project can use good custodians, but damn, the bar is high.
./scream
I completely agree with you. I'm disappointed in how several of these RfBs
have turned out, but most especially Riana's and Neil's (pre-civility
incident). Riana nominating Kelly Martin has absolutely nothing to do with
how she would perform as a bureaucrat. It's not as if she would go
completely rouge and promote a candidate with KM's percentage level.
There's
a similar issue with Neil's; people are opposing him because of his stance
on re-confirmation RfAs; but do we not trust him to either vote oppose and
recuse himself from closing, or close according to consensus regardless of
his personal feelings?
- GC
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In my humble opinion, while it was pretty poor judgement to nominate someone
like Kelly Martin, it doesn't show that she'd go "Oh what the heck" and
promote anyway. On Meta-wiki, where I am a bureaucrat, I nominated Adambro
for adminship, and it didn't go well. Now, if someone like me is going to
refrain from promoting people the community think are unsuitable, I think
that assuming someone like Riana would is just poor judgement on the voters'
part, and would be a great shame if she wasn't successful. Maybe we need a
lower promotion rate for bcrats - after all, they have an easier job than
admins.
And by the way, Riana is the best candidate there (possibly along with The
Rambling Man, but I don't know him so well, but he seems to be popular). It
will be Wikipedia's loss if no one was promoted this time.
--
Alex (Majorly)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Majorly