[WikiEN-l] Analysis of Request for Adminship

[David Alexander Russell]

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The skills can indeed be 'learned on the job', but we need to find out
if people have the right ATTITUDE for adminship ie weed out potential
'screw process' (ie 'I will act outside my authority and there's nothing
you can do about it') types

Cynical

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 3/31/06, David Alexander Russell <webmaster at davidarussell.co.uk> wrote:
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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.
> 
> Then would it make sense to relax some of the requirements for future
> admins, or at least ask voters to consider relaxing them? Is adminship
> really something that cannot be "learnt on the job"?
> 
> Steve
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