[WikiEN-l] Analysis of Request for Adminship

[David Alexander Russell]

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There is no upper limit to the number of admins Wikipedia needs - even
now with 800 admins there is a backlog on WP:COPYVIO and WP:PROD which
needs work. There will always be vandals who could be blocked quicker,
nonsense pages (created by the aforementioned vandals) which need
deleting. The more admins we have, the quicker these things get done,
and therefore the smoother Wikipedia works.

Cynical

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 3/31/06, charles matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> How many admins do we want? We have 800. Do we want 2000? Or do we want 200?
> 
> I suspect that until we can answer that question, most of our
> discussion on how hard it should be to become an admin is actually
> fairly pointless. Why? Because ultimately, if adminship is not to be a
> "reward for hard work", then it should be bestowed upon the top X% of
> the population, rather than every editor who has done good. And we
> don't know what X is.
> 
> Steve
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