This page is an index of archives. Please do not initiate new discussions here. Direct any additional comments to the current talk page.
For discussions from June 2003 till just before what's in this page, see below. RFA discussions before June 2003 took place on a mailing list. RFA-related discussions may also be found at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and at Template talk:RfA.
2003
Early archives: the first 13 archives are very short (often a single topic); these 13 archives are consolidated here (June 2003 – March 2004)
Archive 12: Discussion on 19–25 February 2004 about who can vote and how bureaucrats should be appointed
Archive 13: Discussion of what consensus is needed for a request (February–March 2004)
Archive 14: Polls on making all admins bureaucrats, and on possible minimum requirements for adminship (February–March 2004)
Archive 15: Discussion of nominators, self-nominations, and nominating procedures (March 2004)
Archive 16: Possible minimum requirements for voting, discussion and poll about bureaucrats exercising individual judgment in determining consensus (March–April 2004)
Archive 17: TOC tallies, relative merits of a firm 80% threshold compared to "bureaucrat" judgement, creeping upwards of requirements for support of adminship, possible periodic renewal of adminship, issues regarding specific nominations (March 4 – May 20 2004. No discussion May 20 – June 1)
Archive 18: Questions about adminship, Lst27, JediMaster16, this page needs an image...
Archive 19: Discussion and poll about early removal of nominations, possible timelags between re-nominations (July 2004)
Archive 20: Sockpuppets and qualifications for voting (August 2004)
Archive 21: Edit counting, subpages, boilerplate questions and more (September 2004)
Archive 22: Promotions to bureaucrat (October 2004)
Archive 27: late June–July 2005 – Weyes, Seth Ilys's revalidatation, bureaucracy reform + poll, rfa reform, removing blank votes, 500th admin, Uncle G + suspension proposal, DrZoidberg, Boothy443, WP:TRI, new template proposal, sockpuppets, vandalism of MarkSweep
Archive 28: August 2005 – Boothy443, Lucky 6.9, a proposal for bureaucrat reform, doing away with the self-nomination section, an illustration for this page, Boothy443 again, non-admins with high edit counts, inconsistencies in the procedure, premature removal of nominations, changes to the self-nomination guidelines, editcountitis, admins and valid e-mail addresses
Archive 35: longer answers to questions, delisting and closing of Private Butcher RfA, nominees' desire for doing admin chores, archive archive list, wording of /nominate subpage, delist when questions unanswered, Stevertigo RfA, tainted votes, guide to RfA, how many admins are needed
Archive 44: Various proposals on RfA reform, edit summary usage as a criteria, discussion on problem admins & query on standards, Wikipedia riots
Archive 45: Poll on b-crat noms, new edit history tool, suffrage, b-crat closings, concerns about votes from one user, snowball clause debate, new RfA reform idea
Archive 46: Requests for input on RfA reform, admin accountability poll, other ideas about RfA reform, standards for admins, a debated non-promotion, a symmetrical thread about CSCWEM
Archive 47: More RfA reform ideas, RfA vandalism, Publicizing an RfA, disputed RfA, RfA suspension and debate, some desysoppings
Archive 48: Revert of addition, Deleting aborted RFA attempts
Archive 53: RfA statistical trends, too many optional questions?
Archive 54: HolyRomanEmperor's 3rd RfA, poll on semiprotecting RfA.
Archive 55: Multiple nominators, pre-acceptance votes, various RfA reform ideas
Archive 56: reasons for pileons, RfA candidate's song, where to announce invited votes, votes after deadline
Archive 57: Apprentice/journeyman admins proposal, admin renewal, RfA analysis tool, working with comments, consensus discussion, removing sockpuppets after close, IP votes.
Archive 58: Various ideas on administrator review, some irregularities on current RfAs, voting icons, early closal guideline proposal, rfa closing templates, duplicate voter reporting bot.
Archive 59: Publicizing RfAs, minor changes in process, failing RfAs.
Archive 60: Formatting of RfAs, whether RfA is a vote, "how to become an admin ASAP" essay, RfA standards dropping?, rearranging / expanding question area of nominations, self noms.
Archive 61: More issues regarding the RfA process, changes to the nomination page, HolyRomanEmperor's mysterious disappearance and alleged death (late June 2006 – early July 2006).
Archive 68: 1000 admins, Carnildo RfA result lengthy discussion, August 2006 RfA in review, multiple ideas for RfA reform, suggestion for page on other language RfA standards.
Archive 69: A number of discussions related to RfA reform. Some charts.
Archive 70: Sept./Oct. 2006 – Several discussions on alternative formats for RfA: how to better format RfA as a vote, AzaToth experimental RfA format, listing RfAs on a subpage. Discussion of point when only 2 RfAs were active.
Archive 71: More discussion on RfA reform. Anonymous voting.
Archive 72: straw poll on need for reform, RfA as RfC, other reform ideas
Archive 73: A number of takes on admin reform, increasing vandalism, questions asked in RfA, change in RfA procedure.
Archive 80: Poll to have two bureaucrats on controversial decisions, consensus discussions, need for admins, have 70% be threshold for promotion (27 January 2007 – 3 February 2007)
Archive 81: Provisional adminship, basis of votes, analysis of admin activity, need for more admins, finding qualified candidates, help needed in other areas (2 February 2007 – 13 February 2007)
Archive 82: Arguments to avoid, RfA in other Wikipedias, adminship and editing, 2006 year in review, why nothing gets done on RfA reform, adminship survey, various records (9 February 2007 – 22 February 2007)
Archive 83: Policy on non-transcluded RfAs, numbering subsequent RfAs, early removal of RfAs and WP:SNOW, how to be an admin (21 February 2007 – 26 February 2007)
Archive 84: Discussions on bureaucrats (26 February 2007 – 9 March 2007)
Archive 85: Deadminship proposal, German RFA solution (10 March – 14 March)
Archive 86: RFA-related questions and April Fools' Day (16 March – 2 April). RFA-related errors and proposals
Archive 87: Various proposals and ideas, reform discussions, Danny's RfA discussions and others
Archive 88: Moralis RfA format, removal of vote tally, removal of support/oppose tags themselves, power of bureaucrats increased by ignoring tallies (2007-04-12 – 2007-04-17)
Archive 89: MattBritt RfA format, criteria complaints, new issues raised just before a close, discounting weak/undefended opposes (2007-04-16 – 2007-04-20)
Archive 90: format-based opposes to MattBritt RfA, Robdurbar desysopped, Moralis RfA in retrospect, whether experiments should continue, factors survey (2007-04-18 – 2007-04-23)
Archive 91: WikiProject endorsements, suggestion to 'crat all admins, edit war on the RfA template, Carcharoth's RfA jury proposal, altering RfA formats after transclusion (2007-04-22 – 2007-04-24)
Archive 92: more WikiProject endorsements, PRODlike proposed adminship, spike in nominations, trial adminship, Krimpet promoted (2007-04-24 – 2007-04-29)
Archive 96: semi-serious thread about whether current admins would pass RfA, opposing self-noms on principle, mandating closing rationales, CharlotteWebb's RfA, time between RfAs (2007-06-07 – 2007-07-04)
Archive 97: Self-noms, clerking, tally bot, large number of bureaucrat nominations, flood of RFB voting and possible conflict of interest with Ral315's crat nom (2007-07-02 – 2007-07-06)
Archive 98: Adjective+!votes, adminship factions, Deskana's bureaucrat promotion, discussion about discussion before discussion, bullets versus numbers (2007-07-04 – 2007-07-21)
Archive 100: reinstatement of admin tools after exercising right to vanish, Amarkov's desysopping proposal, more on Oldwindybear, striking WP:POINT votes (2007-07-25 – 2007-08-02)
Archive 101: Mike Godwin's promotion to admin, SNOW closes, Elonka's second RfA, prerequisites for voting, recall, and general standards for adminship (2007-07-30 – 2007-08-07)
Archive 102: Curriculum vitae required?, a bit of thankspam, non-crat closures, neutral (!)votes, messy formatting on Successful Adminship Candidacies, RfA trolls, disruption at RfA, desysopping, archiving, "sysop review", lack of RfAs (2007-08-04 – 2007-08-26)
Archive 103: Lack of admins?, an RfA page with no requests, the guide to RfA, SNOW closes, reform (again), nom questions, canvassing, (!)vote counter, deleted RfA (2007-08-22 – 2007-09-11)
Archive 104: Model of edit-count inflation, creation of the New Admin School, talk about a proposal to block users for canvassing, discussion of the addition of a "fail encourage" RFA outcome, too lenient standards for adminship, essay on adminship, proposal to reform adminship, "not a vote" status, pressure put on opposition, too many SNOW requests (2007-09-09 – 2007-09-22)
Archive 105: Remove cratship as a special status, deadminship system, the 1337th admin, remove wannabe kate link from RFA, binding admin recall, shortcut redirects to individual RFAs, impact of not answering a question, inline debates (2007-09-19 – 2007-10-12)
Archive 106: RfC discussion, administrator recall process, voting icons, dead and newbie RfAs, RfA statistics and an idea for a summary of a failed RfA. (2007-10-04 – 2007-10-11)
Archive 113: voting before transclusion, TOC manipulation, admin list, page rename, RfBs at top of page, fake/joke opposes, regional noticeboard RfA listing, incomplete nomination, too many optional questions, discounting votes per community consensus, RfA close rationales to be provided by bureaucrats and RFC close. (2007-12-19 to 2007-12-31)
2008
Archive 114: Expressing opinions, RFC closed, new proposal, ending date mixup, departing after promotion, declined nominations, RFAs of inexperienced users, admins and the right to vanish, numbering problems, transclusion vs. simple link, troll RfA, SNOW closures, alleged canvassing, nomination request, lolcat RfA, consensus for closure, RfA report at top of talk page and Question numbering. (2007-12-31 to 2008-01-15)
Archive 115: gender is a state of mind, advice on an early RfA, numbering questions, early closure, orphaned RfA, transcluding full text or not, sending thanks/no thanks, limiting the current number of RfAs, increasingly high standards, smaller tally, a nominee was blocked, !!vote (not-not-vote), Lorem ipsum dolor, changing shirts, prohibiting/allowing canvassing,
Archive 116: "This dog feels your pain", YouTube links, archiving RfA talk with MiszaBot, now archiving at 7 days, snow and being gentle when RfA is sure to fail, placement of tally, RfA evaluation tool, predicting desysopping, not a big deal or is a big deal, more tally location, testing civility, binding recall, inclusionist bias, probationary admins
Archive 117: joke oppose, recusing oneself, RfA to remove, participating during one's RfA
Archive 118: RfA Thanking discussions, humorous essays, and article building criteria, Kurt, cliche, 'crat call, speed, RfB reports.
Archive 119: More RfA's than B's, Pun Cheerups, <ax number of questions+MontyPython, Staffwaterboy RFA.
Archive 120: RfBs, SQL report, re-confirmation of bureaucrats, number and nature of questions at RfA
Archive 121: malformed/curious RfAs, RfA standards, RfA tallies with vote count, suggestion for no tally, nominee reading list, ban/block and cool down question
Archive 123: Alternate RfA processes, should cool-down blocks be a question, RfA cheatsheet, YA proposal, RfAs by new editors, requirements for candidates, rollback and flagged revisions, a suggested question
Archive 124: One person's RfA votes, numbering RfAs, suggested question, CSD tagging, or user space, more speedy delete, provisional adminship
Archive 125: Number of admins, editor assistance, WP:EAR, optional questions, stupid questions, where are the candidates, gentler and constructive opposes, one person's viewpoint, WP:IAR, an essay, a survey, protecting this page and RfAs
Archive 195: Community de-adminship, term limits, committed identities for administrators (January 12, 2010 (2010-01-12) – February 8, 2010 (2010-02-08))
Archive 196: Automated edits, "RfA drought", editcount, purpose of questions, new boilerplates, deletionism/inclusionism and voting (February 10, 2010 (2010-02-10) – March 19, 2010 (2010-03-19))
Archive 197: March 18, 2010 (2010-03-18) – April 5, 2010 (2010-04-05)
Archive 198: April 4, 2010 (2010-04-04) – June 3, 2010 (2010-06-03)
Archive 199: May 26, 2010 (2010-05-26) – August 10, 2010 (2010-08-10)
Archive 200: August 9, 2010 (2010-08-09) – August 11, 2010 (2010-08-11)
Archive 201: August 11, 2010 (2010-08-11) – August 14, 2010 (2010-08-14)
Archive 202: August 13, 2010 (2010-08-13) – August 26, 2010 (2010-08-26)
Archive 203: August 31, 2010 (2010-08-31) – September 24, 2010 (2010-09-24)
Archive 204: September 25, 2010 (2010-09-25) – November 4, 2010 (2010-11-04)
Archive 205: November 5, 2010 (2010-11-05) – December 19, 2010 (2010-12-19)
Archive 206: December 21, 2010 (2010-12-21) – January 12, 2011 (2011-01-12)
Archive 250: Problems with opposes, how adminship has changed (no big deal?), time-limited adminship (June 11, 2018 (2018-06-11) – July 31, 2018 (2018-07-31))
Archive 251: Vote rationale word limit, statute of limitations, admin activity, doxing, partial blocking, success trends (August 3, 2018 (2018-08-03) – November 2, 2018 (2018-11-02))
Archive 253: Is RfX a vote or a consensus? Lazy admins, recruiting new admins, bureaucrat discretion. (April 14, 2019 (2019-04-14) – June 30, 2019 (2019-06-30))
Archive 254: Changes to RfA, stats on desysops, showing usernames in watchlist notices, editing for pay, more changes to RfA, and various trivia discussions. (May 20, 2019 (2019-05-20) – October 2, 2019 (2019-10-02))
Archive 255: Stupid questions, paid editing disclosure, rising success rate, questions again, right to pause, separate discussion from polling, complexity of RfAs. (October 6, 2019 (2019-10-06) – February 28, 2020 (2020-02-28))
2020
Archive 256: Watchlist RFA notice for only XCP and above, gap in RfAs, the future of RfA, proposal for admin elections. (February 28, 2020 (2020-02-28) – August 7, 2020 (2020-08-07))
Archive 257: Lots of questions, brand new accounts asking questions, workgroup to investigate candidates, female admins. (July 25, 2020 (2020-07-25) – October 1, 2020 (2020-10-01))
Archive 258: Untranscluded TOOSOONs, racial and gender imbalance, optional question heading, nobody wanting to run, size of potential admin pool, gaming the inactivity requirements. (September 22, 2020 (2020-09-22) – May 20, 2021 (2021-05-20))
2021
Archive 259: Edits to tables, binding recall, treshold of "recent", Less Unless' personal experience, dry spell, trial by fire, limited adminship. (February 18, 2021 (2021-02-18) – June 9, 2021 (2021-06-09))
Archive 260: Time before second successful RfA, debriefings, RfA reforms. (June 8, 2021 (2021-06-08) – December 23, 2021 (2021-12-23))
Archive 261: RfX report, lots of different statistics, lack of content contributions. (December 24, 2021 (2021-12-24) – June 11, 2022 (2022-06-11))
2022
Archive 262: Courtesy blanking of faild RFAs, "No need for the tools", nominators. (April 30, 2022 (2022-04-30) – September 26, 2022 (2022-09-26))
Archive 263: Accusing someone of being a sock, followed by a long discussion about trust, toxicity and content creation stats. RfA stats, 3 RfAs at the same time, automatically closing RfAs after a week. (September 14, 2022 (2022-09-14) – October 9, 2022 (2022-10-09))
Archive 264: RfC on putting RfAs on hold automatically, technical implementation of that, watchlist notices, reason for opposition, unfiled RfAs, using SecurePoll, review of 2022 RfAs, discretionary range or crat chat range, responding to opposes. (October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07) – April 1, 2023 (2023-04-01))
2023
Archive 265: Differences in voting patterns between admins and non-admins, April Fools, ... (March 28, 2023 (2023-03-28) – October 24, 2023 (2023-10-24))
