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Require formal RfA/RfB for applications
Yes, I'm aware of the fact that this website is controlled by the developers, but I think some formal record of why the user was given adminship should be needed. Just saying "trusted user" is quite generic. This problem cropped up when a MediaWiki sysop was attempting to become a steward - upon some digging, it turned out that the user never submitted an RfA and was just, quoting a user, "handled out by trust by a crat". In my opinion, this does not speak well for this site. Hence my proposal is simple: require that every user, developer or not, formally request adminship here. This is the case for every other Wikimedia site, and I am not convinced that this site needs to follow differently (even if it's not a "content site").

This does not mean that consensus should be obtained; unlike other sites I can see it reasonable for the developers to accept an application with no support votes, but I feel that record needs to be there. Leaderboard (talk) 10:37, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I just don't see this being all that big of a deal. Per the box at the top of the page, all new requests for +sysop should come here unless the user is already a well-established developer. In practice, very few recent flags to +sysop have happened without an associated subpage here, so the change you're requesting is already de facto in effect (last one I can find was in April 2020). I'm not opposed to requiring it for everyone, but I feel that mountains are being made of molehills here. -- Skiz zerz  17:55, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I likewise don't see the point of this. * Pppery * it has begun 18:45, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
 * All that adminship requires is trust, and if someone is already trusted I don't see the point of extra bureaucracy. Having a wiki page is really no extra benefit than a log entry, it's just more work. And to be honest, I don't like dealing with spam and vandalism, but there are people who do enjoy cleaning that stuff up, and I am happy to do whatever it takes to empower them so I can get back to doing the stuff I enjoy. I'm also getting really tired of the trope that "mediawiki.org is not a content wiki" - please, there's a ton of content on this wiki. We too are equal partners in the movement for free knowledge. Legoktm (talk) 22:34, 13 February 2021 (UTC)