Wikipedia talk:2015 administrator election reform

Some questions

I have two questions:

• The second phase will attempt to find a solution to the problems identified by the community. This will arguably be the most difficult and prolonged phase:

• What changed: the 2nd phase has been scheduled to end "before the end of December"? This is only about a month during a time when many editors are offline.

• The final phase, Phase III, will be implementation of the solutions decided upon by the community

• I have not been following these discussions but wonder how many editors have actively participated in these discussions (I am not criticizing -- actually I am impressed with the dedication of the initiator, I am just playing devil's advocate). Ottawahitech (talk) 02:03, 9 December 2015 (UTC)please ping me

The "advertising" of RfAs will probably backfire

The only likely effect this is going to have is to draw commentary from people with grudges about things that happened way-back-when who have otherwise not been paying much mind to the candidate.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  14:31, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

The community supported the change by a very wide margin, and to overturn anything decided in these RfCs, you would have to advertise the new RfC just as widely as the old one. (The consensus of a few can't supersede the consensus of many.) But in the interest of complete fairness, I think it's better that RfA results be representative of more community members rather than less. Hawkeye's RfA has been a rather rough ride, but since he was desysopped and has a generally controversial history I think that was to be expected, with or without advertising. Biblio (talk) 00:10, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

It's been my experience that people with grudges manage to end up at RfA no matter what. The watchlist notice, which is the one most likely to be seen, simply says that there are RfAs running without specifying who's running. I doubt that grudgeholders who haven't been paying close attention to the activities of their targets would be checking RfA constantly for an opportunity to bring up old issues. clpo13_(talk) 00:16, 31 January 2016 (UTC)