On 6/15/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Yep. And if after a month as an admin, they still hadn't done it, you could raise a complaint.
And what good would that do?
? You appear to have lost faith in Wikipedia here.
- Had a web link in signature (no one had told him not to)
He didn't. And when told, he fixed it. So, we've voting no on people who don't know everything there is to know about wikipedia?
No but not useing us to produce several thousand links to whatever would be nice.
"Would be nice" -> "if he failed to do that, we vote no"? Anyway, since nofollow is now enabled for talk pages, it is unlikely to be a problem.
Anyway, I don't really understand your line of argument here. Are you saying that candidates that fail to do what "would be nice" should be rejected? Are you saying that such minor offenses that are corrected merely by asking the person to stop doing it, are still reasons to vote no? Why do we even care about such tiny things, just because they're done by RfA candidates?
Has Cyde been desysopped? No? So, evidently strong opinions on userboxes do not conflict significantly with being a decent admin.
Have you ever tried to get someone desysopped?
Nope, but it would be much better to facilitate the process for desysopping people who behave badly, than not promoting them out of fear that they "could" behave badly, because they have strong opinions on things.
Lots of users haven't done anything stupid. Should they all be admins?
Assuming they have been around long enough to establish a pattern of not doing stupid things sure.
So a user who has been around for 3 years, turning 5 pokemon articles into FAs and decorating his userpage would be a good admin - assuming that's all he's done. Surely we can do better than promoting admins on the basis of what they *haven't* done.
Go to RFA once or twice a week. Scan list. Vote on anyone you already know. Go back to dealing with other stuff onwiki.
Would you like to take this further and make an RfA guideline that people should primarily vote on people they already know, and if not, to tread warily and heavily research candidates before voting?
Steve