Steve-
Responsibility breeds self-esteem, standards of
conduct and trust between
parties.
This is your theory. Regardless of your theory, it is inevitable that a
nomination of RK will raise many opposing voices (including my own),
especially now that you have announced your plans to so many parties. A
sysop nomination, like a deletion, must have near unanimous support to be
successful. I see no reason to go into a process that is unlikely to have
any outcome other than bickering over several days or weeks and finally
the removal of the nomination text because no consensus has been reached.
This is not about your "rights" to nominate other persons. This kind of
insistence is also what characterized Lir's behavior. Like Lir, you insist
on embarking on a mission that will only plant the seeds of alienation and
accomplish nothing productive whatsoever.
If you think RK needs to be a sysop to learn responsibility, then ask him
on his talk page if he *wants* to be a sysop and inform him of the process
of requesting sysop access. Feel free to tell him that you would support
that request. But it is silly and pointless for you to extensively
campaign on behalf of someone else who never asked you to do so.
Regards,
Erik