User:WarFox/RfA review

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Questions[edit]

When thinking about the adminship process, what are your thoughts and opinions about the following areas:

Candidate selection (inviting someone to stand as a candidate)
... Before inviting someone as the candidate for Adminship, it should made clear about his past activities. Whether his articles were fraud or not. A panel must be made for the selection. The selected candidates must be trustworthy.

Also inviting someone can rise their confidence level and increase the feeling of responsibility in them. Volunteers are always ready to help. :) Candidate selection by invitation should be done carefully. Administrators should be aware of rules of Wikipedia.

Administrator coaching (either formally or informally)
... There is no need of coaching required. But coaching can be give on request.
Nomination, co-nomination and self-nomination (introducing the candidate)
... Candidates may be nominated by trustful users. Their contributions must be considered before blindly relying on nominations.
Advertising and canvassing
... I don't know upto what extend advertising and canvasing can help on this.
Debate (Presenting questions to the candidate)
... Presenting questions to candidate can help to evaluate their potential. The questions should be selected by an expert panel. Questions should not be quick to answer.
Election (including providing reasons for support/oppose)
... I don't think an election is practical here. All users may not know the other users.
Withdrawal (the candidate withdrawing from the process)
... Withdrawal may be done at the candidates will. It is candidates will to stay or leave.
Declaration (the bureaucrat closing the application. Also includes WP:NOTNOW closes)
... Did not understand the question.
Training (use of New Admin School, other post-election training)
... That is nice.
Recall (the Administrators Open to Recall process)
... I don't know what a recall process is.

When thinking about adminship in general, what are your thoughts and opinions about the following areas:

How do you view the role of an administrator?
... The administrator has got a big role. Being an administrator, one should check all the articles in Wikipedia for credibility.
What attributes do you feel an administrator should possess?
... Patience, reasoning capacity, punctuality.

Finally, when thinking about Requests for Adminship:

Have you ever voted in a request for Adminship? If so what was your experience?
... I haven't.
Have you ever stood as a candidate under the Request for Adminship process? If so what was your experience?
... No.
Do you have any further thoughts or opinions on the Request for Adminship process?
... :)

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This question page was generated by {{RFAReview}} at 13:40 on 29 June 2008.