From: Timwi timwi@gmx.net
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.
That's hardly the case. There currently are hundreds of admins (500?), with 2 or 3 new ones being created weekly, so its hardly impossible. And I've never seen the argument made that someone should be an admin simply because they aren't completley Wiki-addicted.
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.
I've also never seen anyone make a "minimum average number of edits per day" argument for or against adminship. As for the "minimum number of edits" argument, you have misconstrued it; people with a large number of edits are not automatically considered more suitable. In fact, I've seen more than one nomination for admin that was soundly rejected even though the editors in question had many thousands, even tens of thousands of edits. The real point is that the more you edit, the better people are able to guage whether or not they think you have a good grasp of policy and are reliable. People who are very new to Wikipedia are not likely to have a good grasp of policy, and people with very few edits are not well enough known yet; in other words, there is not yet enough evidence to show they will use admin powers responsibly.
Jay.