AVID:Requests for Comment/Various changes to AVID:RFA

I'd like to propose several changes to AVID:RFA. --Blad  (talk • contribs • global) 20:24, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

1. Requirements

 * 1) The requester should not currently be disruptive to the wiki, intentionally or not.
 * 2) The user must have registered their account 1 year ago on avid.miraheze.org (we'll check on Special:CentralAuth to make sure). In addition, you must have at least 1000 or more edits (Note: This does include the old CLG Wiki).
 * 3) The requester has not previously requested for adminship within the past 3 months.
 * 4) The requester has proven knowledge of AVID and its policies. This means that they follow editing guidelines, they fix and improve pages, they upload high quality logos and follow copyright rules, etc.
 * 5) The user is active in fighting vandalism, sockpuppetry, and policy-breakers. This means that their editing history provides evidence of assisting administrators (i.e. editing talk pages of admins to alert them of destructive users), reporting users, and undoing/rollbacking poor or nonconstructive edits.

Rationale: Lots of changes, both major and minor: The rest are unchanged.
 * 1) "The requester should not currently be disruptive to the wiki, intentionally or not. " This replaces the blocking rule, alongside the English rule. 1 year is pretty long for wikis, and many users I know who have been disruptive in the past have made a comeback within less than 1 year. The English rule has been nixed, as users who repeatedly speak Engrish can be blocked, probably as W:WP:CIR.
 * 2) "The user must have registered their account 1 year ago on avid.miraheze.org (we'll check on Special:CentralAuth to make sure). In addition, you must have at least 1000 or more edits (Note: This does include edits on the old CLG Wiki)." Just a quick rewording, nothing too major.

2. Closure
After a request is published, AVID editors have, at most, 2 weeks to vote.

Rationale: 2 months is an extremely long time. Typically, in Meta RfPs, they have about one week, however given that Meta is much bigger than AVID, the voting persiod should be greater than one week. Also, having an RfP open for at least two months will make several requests drag out longer than they should. For example, let's say I run for administrator. Obviously, it would fail, but due to 2 months being a required time span, it would last way longer than needed to the obvious judgement being "No consensus."

3. AVID:RFA rename
AVID:Requests for Adminship is moved to AVID:Requests for Permissions with a redirect. AVID:RFA is moved to AVID:RFP, with a redirect.

Rationale: AVID:RFA is also for requesting the bureaucrat role, and could also be used for other permissions (ex. local Interwiki administrator).

4. User close policy
While bureaucrats generally close requests, any user without local rights may nonetheless speedily close any requests that fail to meet the criteria (listed above).

Rationale: Several RFAs are made by largely inexperienced users, and this can help to cut some of the already-invalid requests. --Blad  (talk • contribs • global) 00:16, 15 December 2022 (UTC)