Recently, a user was nominated for adminship because thought " . . he needs to be rewarded for all the hard work and dedication." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Requests_fo… Though the user in question was very well qualified for adminship, I am disturbed by the trend that adminship is some sort of "reward" or "vote of confidence" in the name of the community, however, in reality adminship is a vote of confidence and reward for making a great deal of edits and behaving well in the process. I propose that the community start issuing awards of merit to users that will be voted upon by the community over a period of a week. Some of the ideas I kicked around were... the <i>Wikipedia Peace Prize</i> - for users who have worked to resolve conflict in the community. the <i>Gutenberg Award</i> - for users that have extensively improved the main-namespace content of Wikipedia As such, we will be able to stroke the egos (and hard-working motivation) of users, while seperating adminship from the equation. I hope that in such a situation, the community will finally be able to give certain users a resounding vote of confidence when adminship would be inappropriate. --H. Cheney __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail