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

[Michael Turley]

On 7/4/05, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are many axis to consider harm.
> For example, after making 2000+ edits, failing to abuse procedure, no
> vandalism, etc.. A user goes up for adminship and is denied. We have
> 500 admins, why not one more?
> *Most* people would feel hurt by that.
> 
> I'd call that harm.
> 
> Obviously we can't just make everyone admins because their feelings
> would be hurt otherwise... but I think that in cases where a user is
> likely to abuse the tools after they've been around long enough for 2k
> edits that it is abundantly clear. In these cases we see unanimous or
> near unanimous opposition.
> 
> In other cases, I think we should give the user a chance to prove
> themselves as an admin. That the risk of a vandal becoming an admin is
> infinitesimal at that point, and the the risk of bruising a valuable
> editors ego is more important.

If an editor's ego is bruised by failing their first RfA, then I'd say
that either their ego is too fragile for them to be a good admin, or
they bring too much ego to the project in the first place.

Reaction to a failed admin bid is probably the best indicator of who's
likely to be a good or bad admin.  Too bad we can't see that reaction
before selecting admins. ;-)

-- 
Michael Turley
User:Unfocused