User:Jguk/admin criterion

Jguk has only one criterion on whether he supports or opposes a request for admin status (though he will oppose if a user meeting that criterion has a recent pattern of acting disruptively - my "sense test override").

The criterion is:

The candidate must have helped get at least one article up to featured article status.

The reasons for this criterion included:

• User has demonstrated they know this is an encyclopaedia
• User must have contributed to the Wikipedia namespace
• User will have had to liaise constructively with other Wikipedians (either in preparing the article, or in dealing with oppose votes)
• To write a featured article, the user would have had to be familiar with the featured article criteria and our standards - any user will take some time to pick this up
• Sets a clear goal of how to get my support for adminship (subject to the sense test override)
• Whilst featured articles aren't the be-all-and-end-all of Wikipedia, to create one means you have to show lots of qualities that are desirable in an admin.
• We have loads of admins anyway, so we can afford to be picky.

Note:This is my personal test. Other users have other tests. I am not proposing that it becomes policy, and others are welcome to follow it or not follow it as they wish.