[WikiEN-l] Worthy admins? (was "The userbox fad")

Wed Jan 4 23:24:55 UTC 2006

Steve Bennett wrote:

>What's strange to me is that it seems that WP is one of the few places
>where you could really provide a comprehensive CV of all the good you've
>done and why you should be admin.  Why not ask candidates to provide X
>diffs demonstrating their dispute resolution skills, and invite
>nay-sayers to provide diffs of bad judgement? Simple statistics should
>mandatorily be collected which would show roughly what sort of Wikipedia
>member they are: How many different talk pages have they left comments
>on? How many user talk pages have they left 2 or more comments on? 
>
Were those comments polite?

Ec