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::::::Please note that this is still a relatively small(but growing) website compared to Wikipedia.  Jimbo may not step in anymore, but is it possible that, when Wikipedia was small site, he did?  --[[User:David R|<<-David R->>]] 20:48, 9 March 2007 (EST)

::::::Please note that this is still a relatively small(but growing) website compared to Wikipedia.  Jimbo may not step in anymore, but is it possible that, when Wikipedia was small site, he did?  --[[User:David R|<<-David R->>]] 20:48, 9 March 2007 (EST)

::::: 1) Anybody can nominate an admin. In fact, anyone can nominate ''themselves'' as an admin. There is then a discussion in which people express support/oppose/neutral. The decision-making process is: "At the end of that period, a bureaucrat will review the discussion to see whether there is a consensus for promotion. The numbers of people supporting, opposing, or expressing another opinion on a candidacy are a significant factor in determining consensus (few RfAs succeed with less than 75% support), but a request for adminship is not a ballot."

::::::: 1) Anybody can nominate an admin. In fact, anyone can nominate ''themselves'' as an admin. There is then a discussion in which people express support/oppose/neutral. The decision-making process is: "At the end of that period, a bureaucrat will review the discussion to see whether there is a consensus for promotion. The numbers of people supporting, opposing, or expressing another opinion on a candidacy are a significant factor in determining consensus (few RfAs succeed with less than 75% support), but a request for adminship is not a ballot."

::::: 2) It is difficult to describe Jimbo's role. It would be silly to suggest he doesn't have one. He is enormously respected by the community and even casual suggestions of his carry great weight. If he truly believed there was a problem with political bias in Wikipedia he would try to do something about it. But he has an ''extremely'' light touch. I don't know how it was before 2003, but that was certainly true in 2003. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 21:04, 9 March 2007 (EST)

::::::: 2) It is difficult to describe Jimbo's role. It would be silly to suggest he doesn't have one. He is enormously respected by the community and even casual suggestions of his carry great weight. If he truly believed there was a problem with political bias in Wikipedia he would try to do something about it. But he has an ''extremely'' light touch. I don't know how it was before 2003, but that was certainly true in 2003.

 

::::::: 3) I don't know how much is wisdom and how much is luck, but Jimbo has a good sense for solutions that "scale." Conservapedia is probably already at the size where Aschlafly can't personally read every change to every article, not if he has other work to do. Call it "mob rule" if you like, Wikipedia has to work (or not work) with random people coming in who have not received any formal training or course of instruction, and are pure volunteers. They have some kind of experience that consists of interacting with other people, who may or may not mention policy pages, which they may or may not read, and which (like all other pages) can be changed at any time... by anyone. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 21:10, 9 March 2007 (EST)