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.
Ec