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"What if person A had 10% of his/her edits as article creation/expansion and more as minor (but not just spelling stuff) but didn't work on FACs, but perhaps rather more obsure articles...Oh well, guess that just another Oppose. What if person B almost always makes formating edits/spelling and vandal patrol, but out of his of large articles (say 1%) edits included 3 to a FAC that was promoted...that makes a lot of sense...right..." --Voice-of-All

Any Featured Article or *FA is a new standard that digital_me will be using as a standard for voting at Requests for Adminship. First started by Tawker and Voice-of-All, it states that Any featured articles that the candidate has helped to write are simply a bonus to their contributions.

Rationale

• Supporting a candidate simply because they have a single featured article under their belt gives support to users who may not necessarily deserve it, and denies support to candidates who may deserve adminship.
• While knowledge of article writing is essential to being an admin, one must consider that writing featured article is not the only way to contribute to Wikipedia.
• Voting on the basis of whether or not a candidate has a featured article discriminates against users who prefer to contribute by expanding more obscure articles that have little chance of being featured.
• Of course, WP involvement, decent edit summary use, tasks involvement, level-headedness, and general policy knowledge are considered. However, this voting criteria emphasis whether a user would make a good admin or not; not a top 10 editor, not a F.A. creator, and not a good editor of high-profile pages. This criteria seeks to elimitate arbitrary or unfair requirements based on things that have nothing to do with adminship.