[WikiEN-l] RfA reform

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 21:28:10 UTC 2007


On 08/04/07, Tariq Ab- Jo- Tu- <tariqabjotu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sam Blacketer wrote:

> > That is indeed what RfA should become, but the problem which needs to
> > be solved is how to set up the process so that this assessment is made
> > in a more intelligent way other than simple voting. If, for instance,
> > instead of asking the community to "Support" or "Oppose", they were
> > asked "Is <x> trustworthy? Yes/No" the result would be
> > indistinguishable from what we have now. The only change would be the
> > heading over the top of the !votes.

> Rehashing an idea I proposed awhile ago, how about a set of standards
> similar to those at [[Wikipedia:Featured article criteria]] (but
> [[Wikipedia:Administrator criteria]] instead)? If opposing comments are
> not relevant to specific points in the criteria, they can be ignored.
> Not a perfect system, but it might be better than the current system.


FAC requirements have notably raised over the past few years, both
consciously and unconsciously. I see no reason such a system for RFA
would not be susceptible to the same problem. In fact, the present
problem is pretty much requirements creep.


- d.



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