Thread:Drew1200/@comment-5510093-20141027180638/@comment-1693968-20141027182533

The requirements are there in order to ensure that the candidates for administrator have adequate experience, which can both filter out requests that would not pass, and ensure that questionable requests do not pass.

Although I don't really feel as if the requirements are "hard to meet". Two months of moderator experience is completely reasonable, and 300 mainspace edits is hardly anything. The requirement of having joined the wiki 6 months ago is, if anything, short, and any user who's an active member of the community with enough experience that people would actually support his request is bound to have more than just 1,000 edits.

Loney, if I were to be perfectly honest, I would support you if requested administrator rights. However, administrator is not an easy job, so obtaining those rights shouldn't be easy, either. It is concerning to me if a candidate has trouble putting effort into meeting the requirements, because it makes me wonder if there may be a lack of effort for the more difficult administrator tasks that every admin will eventually have to do. Obviously, someone like you may never reach the status of #1 editor, but that doesn't mean you'd be incapable of making a couple hundred edits in order to better understand the wiki, and more importantly to meet the RfA requirements.

I'm not saying that I've changed my mind or anything, that's simply a concern that I didn't want to hide from you.