David 'DJ' Hedley wrote:
I don't believe that it is necessary. A rollback button is useful, but I don't see why it is worth a "Requests for Rollback" to get it. If a user does RC patrol and wants the aid of rollback (ie, 'the mop'), then they probably would prefer full admin powers in order to be able to block vandals, and so on. Being an admin doesn't have many set, 'must do' responsibilities - RC patrollers can happily become admins without further hassles, if they want to keep out of Wikipolitics.
If only it was as easy to become admin as you're making it out to be!
The current situation seems to be that the people who frequent [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship]] are quite paranoid with giving out adminship status. Anyone who isn't obviously completely dedicated and who doesn't think of nothing else than Wikipedia's well-being day and night, can't possibly be a suitable admin.
I especially don't get why most people seem to think that someone with a minimum number of edits and/or a minimum average number of edits per day is automatically a more suitable admin. I would think that someone who edits frantically is much more likely to turn into a troublemaker than someone who edits only sporadically.
Timwi