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| A Review of the Requests for Adminship Process |
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The Request for Adminship or RfA process is the mechanism whereby the Wikipedia Community develops consensus on nominated candidates becoming administrators. Wikipedia administrators have access to a number of tools that can aid in maintenance. Potential candidates pass through a series of mandatory and optional stages before becoming an administrator.
Over time, the RfA process has been criticised in a number of different ways. The criticism has become a perennial topic of discussion for many years but has not resulted in any significant changes to the process. As such, a process review has been arranged so that the current process can either be validated or so that clear recommendations for improvement can be made.
The review will consist of multiple phases and is currently at Collate: Recommendations from editors are now being reviewed and analyzed, with the goal of generating specific policy proposals.