[WikiEN-l] RfA concern

Thu Oct 27 14:48:31 UTC 2005

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:34 -0500, Kelly Martin wrote:
> On 10/27/05, Justin Cormack <justin at specialbusservice.com> wrote:
> > I am slightly concerned about the RfA for Acetic Acid. This is a user
> > whose only attempt to create an article is [[vitaminwater]] which is
> > really bad. He does however have overwhelming support (even from a
> > couple of people I know) and clearly has a huge fanclub, and he hasnt
> > done anything blatently wrong (apart from a perhaps unnecessary RfC).
> >
> > I was wondering about suggesting a mentoring program in how to write an
> > article perhaps, which would be something I would be interested in
> > creating anyway.
> >
> > I am sure he wont do any harm as an admin, but it all seems a bit odd.
> >
> > Justinc
> 
> A substantial fraction of our admins are largely worthless at writing
> articles.  In fact, there's a good argument for the position that
> people who can write articles should not be admins: we need them
> writing articles, not running around breaking up fights.

Thats a very reasonable argument. But someone on new articles watch
really ought to know how to wikify an article I would have thought.

The mentoring process idea wasnt necessarily to encourage people to
write lots of articles, but at least if you have done it once you might
learn a bit about how to do research, how to recognise a good article,
how to make an article better and so on.

Justinc