Wikipedia:WikiProject Administrator/Requests for de-adminship (preliminary poll)

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Requests for de-adminship is an oft-requested but currently theoretical process to allow the community to remove adminship. Advocates for such a process argue that since the community grants the access to admin tools, the community should also have some process for revoking that access.

Outline

RfDA proposals generally consist of the elements:

Initiation when some objective criteria is reached (such as requiring X number of uninvolved editors, X number of admins, X number of arbs, or Arbcom as a whole)
A period of time in which the community provides feedback by the form of !votes (akin to RFA)
Closure by a trusted authority (such as a bureaucrat, arb, or arbcom as a whole)

Safeguards

Any RfDA process would need sufficient safeguards against disruption or abuse:

Initiating RfDa should be sufficiently difficult so as to prevent frivolous claims, retaliation against admin, unnecessary drama, and SNOWBALL-esque processes.
De-adminning should be sufficiently difficult so as to prevent the loss of good admins.

Requesting feedback

To foster greater awareness of this issue and to solicit greater participation in the proposal formation process, community feedback is requested. Please discuss on talk and/or participate in the poll. Not that this this is a straw poll, NOT a policy proposal. The outcome will not affect Wikipedia policy, although the results will guide future discussion.

Could you support the creation of an RfDA process?

Yes, provided it had truly adequate safeguards.

No, the community should not have such this sort of process, even if it had adequate safeguards.

No, a RfDa with adequate safeguards is not possible.

Other