"Steve Bennett" wrote
Because ultimately, if adminship is not to be a
"reward for hard work", then it should be bestowed upon the top X% of
the population, rather than every editor who has done good. And we
don't know what X is.
We do know you can be a good editor, without being a suitable person for
adminship (no names, no packdrill).
It is sadly the case that we are short of ways to recognise people's
contributions. Leaving aside long-dead notions such as wiki-money, there
appear to be just these, really:
- barnstars (but these are wholly debased as a coinage)
- WP:1000, which is not really great as a measure
- admin status granted
- getting 'your' article featured (no ownership, naturally, but this is
effective in areas where it works).
We could do with a fresh idea here. I didn't much like past article
competitions, BTW.
Charles