Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll

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This optional polling page is for experienced editors who intend to request administrative privileges (RfA) in the near future and wish to receive feedback on their chances of succeeding in their request.

This page is not intended to provide general reviews of editors. To seek feedback on what you can do to improve your contributions to Wikipedia, ask a friendly, experienced editor on the editor's talk page for help.

Disclaimer: Before proceeding, please read advice pages such as Advice for RfA candidates. The result of a poll may differ greatly from an actual RfA, so before proceeding, you should evaluate your contributions based on this advice as well as recent successful and failed requests. Look at past polls in the archives and consider the risk of having a similar list of shortcomings about yourself to which anyone can refer. You may want to consider asking an editor experienced at RfA, such as those listed at Wikipedia:Request an RfA nomination, their thoughts privately.

Instructions

Potential candidates

To request an evaluation of your chances of passing a request for adminship in the next 3 to 6 months, add your name below and wait for feedback. Please read Wikipedia:Not now before adding your name to this list.

Responders

Responders, please provide feedback on the potential candidate's likelihood of passing an RfA at this time. Please be understanding of those who volunteer without fully appreciating what is expected of an administrator, and always phrase your comments in an encouraging manner. You can optionally express the probability of passing as a score from 0 to 10; a helper script is available to let you give a one-click rating. For more detailed or strongly critical feedback, please consider contacting the editor directly.

Closure

Potential candidates may opt to close or withdraw their ORCP assessment request at any time. Polls are normally closed without any closing statement after seven days (and are archived seven days after being closed). They may be closed earlier if there is unanimous agreement that the candidate has no chance at being granted administrative privileges.

Sample entry

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*5/10 - Edit count seems okay, but there will be opposers saying you need more AfD participation. ~~~~

Suntooooth: July 12, 2024

Suntooooth (talk · contribs · logs · block log · page moves · count · edit summaries · non-automated edits · articles created · BLP edits · AfD votes · XfD votes · admin score (beta) · CSD log · PROD log · no prior RfA)

I'm aware my edit count would likely need to be higher to be taken seriously at RfA, and that can factor into responses, but I'd also like feedback on other areas - not just edit count. The main areas I'd help out in as an admin would be WP:PERM, CSDs, and possibly managing DYK queues. Thanks very much in advance! Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 22:29, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

• As per the instructions, this poll is intended to evaluate one's current record of activity. For feedback on what you can do to work towards a request for administrative privileges, it would be better to find a friendly, experienced editor for their advice. Looking at some of the frequent nominators at the request for adminship page is one place to start. isaacl (talk) 22:37, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

  I appreciate the response, but I'm aware of all that - I would like to know what my chances are at this moment, I just don't want all of the responses to be "get a higher edit count" when I'm aware of that already. Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 22:53, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

  Yes, but the poll is also for those intending to make a request shortly. If you're aware that there are shortcomings that would prevent a successful request, then you're requesting that multiple people evaluate your chances when you know the answer already. isaacl (talk) 00:05, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

• With regards to promoting to queue at DYK, you would potentially get a good amount of support from DYK regulars as more admins would be valuable to have. However, you don't seem to have much experience with DYK. I can see that you've contributed to two discussions and appear to have nine nominations. Ideally, you start building prep sets and once you've done that for a while, you know what's important to look out for when it comes to promoting to queue. With your current level of experience, I think you'd struggle to attract much support. Schwede66 23:38, 12 July 2024 (UTC)