"Steve Bennett" wrote
And the worst is "come back later, might support you then". Not because the candidate is in any way actually deficient as an admin, but they simply haven't served an unwritten waiting period.
I can't see what's wrong with that. There isn't the slightest entitlement to become an admin. Anyone who has more than 15000 edits or so is likely to get asked whether they want to be nominated. That's about the size of it.
Charles