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