On 03/11/06, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
[[WP:RFA]], which, like notability, lacks any consensus anymore on what the overall standards should be, and has thus degenerated into utter madness.
Seconded, of course, because it leads to some over-keen individuals creating loony things like [[Wikipedia:Admin school]]. I had the displeasure to just discover this prime example of instruction creep, which begins:
"Prerequisites and required reading... 1000 edits on Wikipedia encyclopedia articles and/or lists 1000 edits in the Wikipedia and/or Help namespace Familiarity with Help:Contents, 2-levels deep Familiarity with Wikipedia:Contents, 3-levels deep Familiarity with Wikipedia:Department directory, 2-levels deep."
(I'd never even heard of [[Wikipedia:Contents]] before, let alone [[Wikipedia:Department directory]].)
RfA seems to have assumed a near-cult-like status with a certain group of people, and has developed a toxic culture that is spreading outwards to choke other areas, much like kudzu. It needs to be killed at the root.