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User:Xenon54/RfA Criteria

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This page is designed to help me determine whether to support or oppose an RfA candidate. It's set up similar to the Are You a Wikiholic? test, with differing amounts of points yielding different !votes. Concerns, comments, questions? Please tell me.

Criteria

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Experience

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Has the user been active on Wikipedia for...

  • less than one month? (-4)
  • one to three months? (0)
  • three to six months? (3)
  • six months to a year? (5)
  • a year or longer? (6)

Prior Actions

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Has the user...

  • been blocked before? (-10)
  • had civility and/or vandalism issues within the past year? (-4)
  • run for adminship before? (.5 each time)
  • been in a dispute that went beyond talkpage discussion to ANI, MedCab, etc.? (-2 if they were the instigator, 1 if they tried to resolve the dispute, 0 otherwise)
  • made less than 25 edits a month for at least two consecutive months? (-.5)

Community Involvement

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Is the user...

  • involved in WikiProjects? (.5 for each one)
  • involved in non-article-building work, such as the Help and Reference desks? (1)
  • regularly involved in processes such as AfD? (2)
  • not regularly involved in processes such as AfD but states that they want to work there? (-2)

Does the user...

  • patrol for new articles or images and tag inappropriate pages or images for speedy deletion? (2)
  • apply the speedy deletion criteria appropriately? (1 if yes, -2 if no)
  • take appropriate action if an article is not a valid speedy deletion candidate? (1 if yes, -1 if no)
  • show an inclination to discuss problems rather than revert war? (2 if yes, -2 if no)

Contributions

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Has the user...

  • made no more than 10% of their total contributions to their userspace? (4)
  • made a substantial amount of edits (about 30% of total) to project space? (3)
  • If the user has stated that they want to work with images, have at least 75 of their contributions gone into the image and image talk namespace? (1)
  • Has the user made at least 30% of their total contributions to the mainspace? (4)
  • Has the user brought an article to Good status? (1 for each)
  • Has the user had a Did you know? (1 for each)
  • Featured status? (3 for each)
  • If the user has stated that they want to fight vandalism, are they active at AIV, RFPP, and other vandalism-related places? (3)
  • If the user has stated that they want to be active in something else, are they currently active there? (1)

Miscellaneous

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  • Has the user left any questions unanswered? (Automatic neutral)
  • Does it seem like one of the answers is not entirely sincere or is a "template" response (e.g. Q1: I want to fight vandalism and work at AfD because I want to help the community)? (-2)
  • Have they self-nomed? (2)
  • Have they had co-noms? (1 each)

Results

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  • The highest possible point total is 46.25.
  • 46.25-25: Support
  • 24.99-15: Support or Neutral with some minor concerns or Oppose with major concerns
  • 14.99-0: Neutral or Oppose

Changelog

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  • version 1.0: initial version, 00:02, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
  • version 1.0.1: Changes to dispute & misc criteria, max 46.65, 00:04, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
  • version 1.1: Changes to several criteria, simplified results, max 46.25 23:43, 5 March 2008 (UTC)