In a message dated 6/20/2004 8:13:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, fennec@gmail.com writes: Would you consider numeric standards harmful- particularly those regarding Requests for Adminship? I think we have to move away from numeric standards and start measuring quality over quantity. Hypothetically, someone who wrote 100 good articles from scratch in 100 edits is, in my opinion, a far more capable contributor and sysop than someone who has 1000 edits because they engaged in a whole lot of silly edit wars.
Danny
daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 6/20/2004 8:13:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, fennec@gmail.com writes: Would you consider numeric standards harmful- particularly those regarding Requests for Adminship? I think we have to move away from numeric standards and start measuring quality over quantity. Hypothetically, someone who wrote 100 good articles from scratch in 100 edits is, in my opinion, a far more capable contributor and sysop than someone who has 1000 edits because they engaged in a whole lot of silly edit wars.
On the other hand, 100 good articles from scratch tells us nothing about how the user will deal with duplicates, vandalism, edit wars, and all the other little joys of a sysop's life, while 1000 edits due to edit wars will have developed exactly the sort of track record that will help everybody to vote no. :-) In a way, sysophood is about everything that is not creation of genuinely new content; we're looking for janitors rather than authors.
Stan