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User:Josh Parris/RfA criteria

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My criteria for RfAs

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I thought I ought to enumerate these for my own reference; be warned that they're evolving.

I want to see both a breadth and depth of experience in the areas a candidate will be operating with the tools. Unless a candidate declares they will only be operating in one area of administrative responsibility, I have to evaluate on the assumption that they will operate in all areas.

If you have participated in RfA in the past, I will hold you to your own standards as well as my own.

What I'm voting for

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I'm trying to stop Bad Things from happening:

  • Articles being deleted outside of criteria - this happens with almost no oversight
  • An uncivil editing environment (biting, warring, drama) on the assumption sysops police our norms
  • A hard life (I don't want to clean up after the janitorial staff, getting their incorrect actions reversed; I don't want to inspect their every action)

Criteria indicative of failure

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Criteria indicative of success

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  • High edit count, spread over many pages and namespaces
    Note that inflated edit counts don't... count. If you can rack up a big edit count and not find yourself tripping any of the Criteria indicative of failure, you're doing something right.
  • Content creation
    That's why we're here. Doing it helps you understand the value of it.
  • Admin practice
    If you've been running around doing things in the admin space: xfD, thoughtful RfA contributions, helping out newbies experiencing shock and awe, and nobody has yelled at you, then that shows you're likely to be good at this stuff in the future.
  • Long history of service
    You're still here? That's dedication. Wikibreaks not a problem, but at least six months since your last.
  • A good CSD ratio
    The ratio of edits found by surviving delete requests compared to logged requests of 1:20 or lower is a dead giveaway that you know what you're doing (only look at recent edits, since Twinkle became the tools of choice for this; when dinosaurs roamed the Earth people had to do it by hand).