MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
On 3/30/07, Jake Nelson duskwave@gmail.com wrote:
I share MGM's concerns, but do appreciate your take on the matter.
Let me put it this way. Here's my RFA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Recently_created_admins...
At the time, I had ~400 edits and had been on Wikipedia ~2 months.
Back then the project was merely two years old. We could afford to be less picky about admins back then. Some people have gone over the top in their requirements, but how can we address that without affecting the fact the entire community has a voice in the process?
That voice is only theoretical. Unless a person is able to spend a lot of time following the process it's not a meaningful voice. Suppressing the voting early doesn't help.
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