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Revision as of 16:13, 28 February 2010
I share the frustration at the relatively low admin promotion rate in recent years, and although I do believe that standards for admins have gotten higher (itd be pretty hard to argue not), I think that a large part of the problem is that there are fewer new users who have the desire and the ability to become admins. To keep pace with 2005-2007, we would have to triple the rate at which we're promoting admins. Do you really think that for every candidate who passes RfA, there are two more that "should have" but either werent interested or were denied for spurious reasons? I'm sure there are some ... I can think of some candidates who I'd think would be good admins but ran and just barely missed the critical percentage ... but I really dont think there are hundreds of them. Perhaps it is simply that most of the people who would make good Wikipedia admins heard about Wikipedia and signed up early on, whereas those who are signing up now are mostly people who just aren't that interested. (I stress mostly because I know of plenty of counter-examples — people who would have been great in the early years too but were just too busy with other things to register an account.) —Soap— 16:13, 28 February 2010 (UTC)