[WikiEN-l] Thoughts on the process of requesting adminship

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 7/2/05, Rebecca <misfitgirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> What purpose does this serve? It builds adminship up into some sort of
> huge thing that it isn't. If you generally behave yourself and make a
> few good edits, you become an admin. It really isn't very hard. 
[snip]

No. Doing the proposed would make adminship less of a big deal,
becuause it would cause adminship to eventually include all
trustworthy users.

Adminship stopped being about being a well behaved editor and not
abusing the tools long ago...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Uncle_G
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Eequor_%282nd%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/ScudLee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Pedant