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.
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