On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:34 -0500, Kelly Martin wrote:
On 10/27/05, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
I am slightly concerned about the RfA for Acetic Acid. This is a user whose only attempt to create an article is [[vitaminwater]] which is really bad. He does however have overwhelming support (even from a couple of people I know) and clearly has a huge fanclub, and he hasnt done anything blatently wrong (apart from a perhaps unnecessary RfC).
I was wondering about suggesting a mentoring program in how to write an article perhaps, which would be something I would be interested in creating anyway.
I am sure he wont do any harm as an admin, but it all seems a bit odd.
Justinc
A substantial fraction of our admins are largely worthless at writing articles. In fact, there's a good argument for the position that people who can write articles should not be admins: we need them writing articles, not running around breaking up fights.
Thats a very reasonable argument. But someone on new articles watch really ought to know how to wikify an article I would have thought.
The mentoring process idea wasnt necessarily to encourage people to write lots of articles, but at least if you have done it once you might learn a bit about how to do research, how to recognise a good article, how to make an article better and so on.
Justinc