[WikiEN-l] Light entertainment

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Tue Apr 3 11:12:09 UTC 2007


MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:

>On 3/30/07, Jake Nelson <duskwave at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I share MGM's concerns, but do appreciate your take on the matter.
>>
>>Let me put it this way. Here's my RFA:
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Recently_created_admins&oldid=1819982#Jakenelson
>>
>>At the time, I had ~400 edits and had been on Wikipedia ~2 months.
>>    
>>
>Back then the project was merely two years old. We could afford to be less
>picky about admins back then.
>Some people have gone over the top in their requirements, but how can we
>address that without affecting the fact the entire community has a voice in
>the process?
>
That voice is only theoretical.  Unless a person is able to spend a lot 
of time following the process it's not a meaningful voice.  Suppressing 
the voting early doesn't help.

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