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Xenocidic

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Xenocidic (talk · contribs) - This is one of the hardest RfA's that I've ever written, not because Xenocidic isn't deserving, but rather because I am being very hypocritical for writing it. You see, Xenocidic has not been actively editing for six months which is normally my criteria, but he's only a few weeks away from that magical six month mark. I thought about asking him to wait 2 weeks to run, that way I could say that he'd been active for six months, but I'm not sure what he might learn in two weeks that he doesn't already know. And it's not fair to him to force him to wait when he's ready now.

I even thought about serving as his admin coach---a program that I believe in---to get him past that six month mark. But to do so would be even more hypocritical than nominating him a few weeks early. Admin coaching, IMHO is not a means to polish one's resume, but rather a means to help somebody who needs some guidance. I've said elsewhere that I'd rather have a candidate that needs a lot of help, than the one who is all but ready to run. To me, coaching is a means to help guide a person to learn more about Misplaced Pages. It should not be something somebody does to get a check by their name---in fact, for some candidates coaching is, IMHO, a detriment. Xenocidic is one of those candidates.

I was going to coach Xenocidic because he approached me a few weeks ago about the possibility of coaching him. At the time I told him I was too busy, but I decided to take a look at his edits and comment on his editor review. My initial impression was very positive. This impression was heightened by others who echoed my sentiment. Several RfA regulars (Useight and Rudget) commented on his editor review that they thought he was about ready for adminship. I agree. As an Admin Coach, I honestly don't know what I could have him do that would be meaningful that he hasn't already done! I could run him through some busy work, but that isn’t fair to him or the process.

Xenocidic has been active on Misplaced Pages for about five and a half months. He is active in a number of "adminly" areas wherein he has participated in not only the wikispace, but also the wiki talk space. He participates in discussions on not only user talk, but also article talk. In short, this is one of the more well rounded candidates I've seen (well, if you exclude the fact that he only writes about video games!) I've spent about 12 hours scrutinizing this candidates edits trying to find some reason to justify forcing him to wait even two weeks, and I can't. 12 hours.... that's 3 times longer than any of my past candidates! I keep coming back to one thing, he's ready now.Balloonman (talk) 23:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

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