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 | This page in a nutshell: Admins don't need to be be able turn 32 painted cans of soup into a work of art. But they do need to know not to stuff it in the trash when they see it. |
You do not have to be an artist to work at an art museum. In fact, few artists work at museums displaying art. What you need is to know what is art and what's not, so your first day at the new job does not start with you stuffing a picture of a lot of soup cans into the trash because you think someone tried to plaster the walls of the museum with advertising. The same applies to editing Wikipedia.
When judging the viability of a candidate at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, many !voters will consider content work a key aspect and correctly so. Unfortunately, some !voters equate content work with content creation or getting a sizeable number of articles to GA/FA/DYK status. They often do not consider that not everyone is capable of doing such feats and/or will not accept this when pointed out to them.