User:Rudget/admin candidates
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Last updated: 15:18, 3 June 2008 (UTC) |
What I look for
I look for many qualities in prospective candidates now-a-days, and they've somewhat restricted over the past couple of months. The main are:
- Trustworthiness
- Explanation
- Reliablity
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- Dedication
- Explanation
- Communication Skills
- Explanation
- Determination (at least to some extent)
- Explanation
- A need for the "tools"
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- Open to suggestions or directives from the community
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- Relative to Wikipedia
- Clean or a mistake block, block log
- No edit wars, unnecessary revisions
- A user who assumes good faith
- Un-bite-y
- 7+ months time on Wikipedia
- Over 6000 edits (some exceptions permitted)
- Familiar with policy
- Refrains from personal attack
Past candidates
I've been nominating (mostly co-nomating to be truthful) editors for the administrative buttons for quite some time now, originally starting back in April 2007 with Brylcreem2 (talk · contribs) (who now appears to have departed) and then taking a long break before starting up again November/December of the same year with Rigadoun (talk · contribs). I've not stopped, really, since that point and I am continually finding new talent that is perfect material for an administrator candidate. I've now nominated 11 users to RFA, 8 successful and 3 unsuccessful. I sometimes complete administrator coaching with the user prior to the transclusion of the RFA, but this is ultimately left to the decision of the user in question. I have had two other user who I have wished to nominate at RFA, but they either received other nominations or it was during my short retirement period, and so I was unable to write up a nomination, those being: Dlohcierekim (talk · contribs) and Ultraexactzz (talk · contribs). Other users that I have discussed nominations with, are:
