"Steve Bennett" wrote
Because ultimately, if adminship is not to be a "reward for hard work", then it should be bestowed upon the top X% of the population, rather than every editor who has done good. And we don't know what X is.
We do know you can be a good editor, without being a suitable person for adminship (no names, no packdrill).
It is sadly the case that we are short of ways to recognise people's contributions. Leaving aside long-dead notions such as wiki-money, there appear to be just these, really:
- barnstars (but these are wholly debased as a coinage) - WP:1000, which is not really great as a measure - admin status granted - getting 'your' article featured (no ownership, naturally, but this is effective in areas where it works).
We could do with a fresh idea here. I didn't much like past article competitions, BTW.
Charles