Though I'm not found at every request for adminship, I occasionally do comment there. As such, I think it's high time I form an RfA criteria.
- At least 5 months of active editing - I believe that it takes at least 5 months for a possible candidate to garner the experience required for an administrator. By "active," I mean at least 50 edits per month. I will, however, make exceptions for users who I believe to be of exceptionally high quality – for instance, I nominated Vicenarian (talk · contribs) after he had only been active for three months.
- At least 3,000 edits - Yes, I do myself find 3,000 a low number, but I recall a candidate fairly recently being promoted with under 4,000 edits at the time.
- No recent blocks - Generally I will consider supporting if the candidate has not been blocked in the past year, though the longer the block log, the more likely I'll oppose instead of supporting.
- No recent talk page issues - I will consider opposing if the candidate has had noteworthy issues raised to him/her on his/her talk page within the last six months.
Notes
edit- I will generally be found in the "support" section – I offer "moral support" votes to users who are not problematic and act in good faith, however do not quite meet all of my criteria just yet.