[WikiEN-l] Requirements for Adminship

[Timwi]

Hi,

sorry for jumping into this thread without reading the other responses 
first, but here's mine... :-)

Keitei wrote:
> Admins must:
> 	be neutral, above all else.

This is already wrong. An admin who does not do any blocking, protecting 
or deleting, is by definition harmless, but they need not be neutral (in 
what they secretly believe would deserve deletion or protection). You 
would be denying adminship to such a person even though it would not 
cause any harm, therefore you are turning adminship into the "big deal" 
again that we are trying hard not to make it.

> Therefore, admin candidates must:
> 	demonstrate they can [...]

This is clearly wrong. What you are saying is that someone who cannot 
demonstrate that they would be a good admin before they're actually an 
admin, can't become admin. Catch-22!

You are also reiterating this false belief that someone who does not fit 
your criteria must not ever be admin even for a minute, i.e. you are 
acting as if adminship could never be removed again.

So, my corrected version of your assessment would look something like this:

- Admins must, *on the whole*,
	be neutral (in deleting, protecting, blocking)

- Therefore, an admin who deletes, protects or blocks something/someone
   unfairly, must be de-adminned. Everyone else can, by definition, be
   admin without causing harm.

Timwi