Charles Matthews wrote:
My impression is that in recent times, the number of WP admins has grown roughly in line with the number of WP pages. [...] I would say a sysop per 1000 or more pages on the site is not excessive.
I'm having trouble extracting from your message whether you are advocating (a) limiting the amount of sysops, or (b) increasing them.
Both are topics that I really don't understand why people even start them. We can't artificially increase the number of sysops if there aren't any who volunteer. Similarly, we can't arbitrarily choose some people and de-sysop them solely on the grounds that we want less of them. How would you feel if your request for adminship was rejected just because "there are already enough of them"? It's simply not fair.
The number of sysops is not something that we should (or even can) regulate. It's a quantity that evolves by itself.
Timwi