User:DoriSmith/templates/notnow

Standard "not now" RFA boilerplate, based loosely on:

• User:X!/notnow
• User:NuclearWarfare/NOTNOW
• User:Dlohcierekim/not now
• User:Dloh/n2

To use, paste

{{subst:User:DoriSmith/templates/notnow}}

under Oppose.

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1. Oppose Thank you for submitting your RFA. While I applaud enthusiasm, I'm afraid you do not yet possess sufficient knowledge and experience for the community to have confidence in your readiness to become an admin. However, that does not mean that we will never have confidence in you.

For the most part, it requires at least 5000 edits in a variety of areas to learn policy and guidelines well enough to attempt adminship. Nominees need to show the ability to contribute a number of significant edits to build the encyclopedia. If you work on vandalism patrol, most people would like a few thousand more.

The Admin tools allow the user to block and unblock other editors, delete and undelete pages, and protect and unprotect pages. Nominees should therefore have experience with areas such as AIV, RPP, AFD, and CSD.

Adminship inevitably requires one to:

1. explain clearly the reasons for one's decisions,
2. review one's decisions and change one's mind when it is reasonable to do so,
3. review one's decisions and stand firm when it is reasonable to do so, and
4. negotiate a compromise.

Admins need a familiarity with dispute resolution. The ability to communicate clearly is essential.

Article building is the raison d'être of Wikipedia. I recommend significant participation in WP:GA or WP:FA as the surest way to gain article building experience. Alternatively, one should have added a total of 30,000 bytes of content, preferably not all in one article. I find a large number of WikiGnome-type edits to be helpful.

If you have not done so already, you may find reading the following to be helpful:

• WP:Guide to requests for adminship
• WP:Administrators
• WP:Administrators' reading list
• WP:Protection policy and WP:Blocking policy (to learn when to do these things)

My suggestion would be to withdraw and try again in another 3 months and/or 3000 edits. I recommend taking part in RfA discussions to help learn from the experiences of others. Many nominees have found it helpful to obtain an Editor Review or to receive Admin coaching before submitting their RfA. Hope this helps. Good luck and happy editing. ~~</includeonly>