[WikiEN-l] Analysis of Request for Adminship

[Ray Saintonge]

Ilmari Karonen wrote:

> So you're essentially proposing that candidates should only be nominated
>
>by someone who is already an admin, and that the nominating admin would 
>be expected to carry out a background check on the nominee.
>
>That sounds like a reasonable proposal to me, for what little my opinion 
>counts.  It's not as if anyone with the proverbial snowball's chance in 
>hell of passing RfA couldn't find one _single_ admin to nominate them.
>
It sounds like the kind of reasonable proposal that most people will 
agree to and ignore.  Either by ignoring the background check, or by not 
bothering to make nominations.

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