Wiki How:RfA reform 2011/Question profiles

(Please remember that these are suggestions only, and because they are ideas some of them may even be contradictory. They are here mainly to stimulate discussion. )

• Three standard mandatory template questions.
• User questions are definitely optional.
• No oppose vote can be made for not answering. Neutral vote can be made for not answering.
• Questions from voters only, and possibly only from experienced editors.
• Maximum of one question per user. (addressed in RfA reform Dec 2015. Fixed at 2)
• No compound questions. (addressed in RfA reform Dec 2015. Multiple questions masquerading as one are disallowed))
• No follow-on questions.
• No discussion threads in the question section except one answer from the candidate.
• Relevant questions only (see User:Kudpung/RfA criteria#The questions they ask)
• No trick questions deliberately contrived to lead the candidate to err on the side of negativity.
• A maximum number of user questions.

Questioners edit

• Assog is an indef blocked sock.
• Dusti retired following his 3rd RfA.
• The maximum number of questions asked at an RfA in this time period was 29. (This does not count 'compound' questions).
• The average number of questions per RfA was 7.95.
• 234 users posed questions.
• 91 are admins.
• 98 users posed one question only
• 39 admins posed one question only

Editing history edit

• Of the top 22 (10+ questions), 5 had less than 4,000 edits
• The second most prolific questioner (39 questions) had 1,604 edits
• Of the 8 highest edit counts (100,000+), the average number of questions was 2.60.
• Of the 8 highest edit counts (100,000+), 5 are admins.
• Of the 8 highest edit counts (100,000+), all registered in 2006 or earlier.
• 12 users had less than 1,000 edits
• 19 users had less than 2,000 edits
• 50 users had less than 5,000 edits
• 48 users had 5,000 - 10,000 edits
• 102 users had 10,000 - 50,000 edits

Question history edit

• 98 users posed 1 question
• 31 users posed 2 questions
• 26 users posed 3 questions
• 18 users posed 4 question
• 16 users posed 5 questions
• 5 users posed 6 questions
• 4 users posed 8 questions
• 11 users posed 10 - 15 questions
• 5 users posed 11 - 20 questions
• 6 users posed 21+ questions:

• Keepscases 23 questions, 1,583 edits
• Doc Quintana 24 questions, 5,659 edits
• HJ Mitchell 24 questions, 48,994 edits. Admin
• Wifione 37 questions, 10,261 edits. Admin
• Groomtech 39 questions, 1,604 edits
• Fetchcomms 45 questions, 38,083 edits. Admin

Registration edit

• 4 users registered since 01 Jan 2011
• 30 users registered in 2010
• 35 users registered in 2009
• 29 users registered in 2008
• 34 users registered in 2005
• 13 users registered before 31 Dec 2004

(Research courtesy of Scottywong)

This is a list of editors who posed additional questions at RfA's between April 2010 to April 2011. Note that this sortable table was compiled by a bot, and contains errors and omissions due to the wide variety of ways different editors format their questions. This page was generated on 00:17, 9 April 2011 (UTC).