[WikiEN-l] Thoughts on the process of requesting adminship

Sun Jul 3 09:51:33 UTC 2005

>From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>
>
>No. Doing the proposed would make adminship less of a big deal,
>becuause it would cause adminship to eventually include all
>trustworthy users.
>
>Adminship stopped being about being a well behaved editor and not
>abusing the tools long ago...
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Uncle_G
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Eequor_%282nd%29
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/ScudLee
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Pedant

Obviously there was no consensus that these editors were trustworthy; 
someone is not "trustworthy" simply because you believe them to be so.  And 
consensus is still an important part of the Wikipedia process.

Jay.