The 11yr old withdrew his nomination. He'd only been editing for
3months and 500 of his cout were on his own pages! He'd also, posted a
blocked on somebodies page. (Perhaps out of spite or just not an admin
yet). Most of the critism was ok, but but lad didn't know what hit
him. On his user page he says he's taken a wikibreak! awww. Sometimes
a lot of the kids act more maturely than the adults.
Michael
On 07/06/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/06/07, Joe Szilagyi
<szilagyi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> And, I wager if he hadn't said he was 11 years old, and he'd passed,
people
> would shat themselves later when seven years
from now he would be old
enough
> to run for Board of Directors. Or ArbCom,
when he got his driver's
license!
>
>
> Oh, he could run for ArbCom. If he got it, though, he'd be the
> arbitrator without checkuser or oversight ...
>
>
> - d.
We have at least a couple of 12 y/o admins, self-identified as such, right
now. For that matter, I nominated a candidate that age last month (he was
supported 27/0/0 at one point, although ultimately consensus wasn't
reached). The age issue came up in a few of the oppose comments but it was
pretty clear from the context that those editors would have opposed anyway.
I've never seen chronological age actually change the outcome of an RfA and,
despite the occasional "ageist" comment, Wiki projects are pretty much more
egalitarian age-wise than almost any other part of society I can think of.
Newyorkbrad
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