daniwo59(a)aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 6/20/2004 8:13:05 PM Eastern
Standard Time,
fennec(a)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