My reasoning behind this is simple:
- Creating a featured work shows that the user is here to help build this encyclopedia, not use it as an outlet their need to feel important.
- Creating a featured work demonstrates the user has good communication skills, as getting material to featured status requires lots of coordination with other editors. This is an important quality in administrators.
- Creating a featured work proves that the user has considerable dedication to the project, and aren't likely to leave in a huff at the first sign of criticism, only to return a few days later.
- If people start getting opposed for not writing FAs, they'll go and write FAs, benifitting the project immensely.
| “ | One of the many, many reasons RfA sucks is the ideology many people have. These are editors who, instead of coming to the request to look for reasons to support, will look for reasons to oppose. This is the complete wrong way to go about things. When RfA was created, it was not so much as a poll, more of an "OK then", perhaps like rollback. If people had an objection, it was done in reluctance, and normally with a good reason (not "he forgot to sign his self nomination acceptance" or "doesn't have enough edits to WP:AIV", but more like "he's only been here a week, maybe after a month's experience"). Some people actually set out to find a reason to oppose. I find this crazy. Why the negativity? Is it some sort of power thing, where it makes people feel better by opposing someone? I can't think why people seem to feel it necessary to look for reasons to oppose someone, instead of support. This is why supports tend to be more "votey" than opposes. Supports should be automatic, and the editor should be promoted bar any significant objection. Those who mass oppose who complain when someone questions their oppose, will sometimes say "Why don't you question the supports without a rationale?" The answer is, it should be up to the opposers to show a proper argument, and not the supporters. Adminship should be given unless there's a significant opposition, and it should be up to the opposers to prove that the user is unsuitable. | ” |
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