[WikiEN-l] Major dysfunction in RfA Culture

[David Gerard]

On 18/04/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, this is why my proposal was to put up a statement in big red letters
> along the lines of "The only criterion for adminship is whether the
> candidate can be trusted to handle the tool well". RfA is not a referendum
> on how good or brilliant a user is. It's a referendum on whether he/she has
> the clue to handle the tools well. The onus is on opposers to show why "more
> involvement in the deletion process" or "more edits" will make a significant
> enough change for them to trust the candidate with the tools.


Note that the querulous opposers are now trying to attack prospective
bureaucrats in this way.

A collective statement from the bureaucrats may be appropriate at this point.


- d.