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:Ill reiterate some stuff thats probably been said already, adminship is no big deal period. If maintenance starts lapsing though more admins will be let in naturally, or more likely, greater automation will simply evolve to make decisions easier (cutting that red tape so to be in a way). I personally feel so much of the fixes today are automated anyway today versus 5 years ago (even vandal aiv reports are so stream lined....) and thus i beleive more active admins back then were probably needed than today (just my feeling). Though i do find automation has created a cold bleak gap that chases away new editors anyway. But thats just my biased look at wikis future, probably something will change to be more optomistic. Meh just some rants [[User:Ottawa4ever|Ottawa4ever]] ([[User talk:Ottawa4ever|talk]]) 18:35, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

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:: Ironically it's career malcontents like Malleus who ''make'' adminship a big deal by playing up the idea of a divide between the haves and have-nots. The vast majority of admins are regular editors with a few bits, who occasionally even do The Real Work Of Regular Editors™, but I suppose if one hung around ANI all day (or, God forbid, Wikipedia Review) then it'd be extremely easy to get the impression that Wikipedia resembled pre-Revolutionary France. In reality the meta-commentary and court drama which gets picked over all day by our resident rabble-rousers actually has very little impact on how the project runs, and even RfA itself is far less full of intrigue than it was a few years ago. [[user:thumperward|Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward)]] - [[user talk:thumperward|talk]] 11:58, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

:::Disagree with the unnecessary pejoratives; agree strongly with the idea most of the stuff we get up in arms about doesn't matter both as a matter of philosophy and pedestrian fact. I like tooling around the margins as much as anyone else, but try to keep it in perspective.--[[User:Tznkai|Tznkai]] ([[User talk:Tznkai|talk]]) 14:39, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

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:::::::::You may continue to display your ignorance of basic logic for as long as you wish Geni, and by doing so appear to defend an administrator who has admitted several times that she was at fault, but it just won't wash. [[User:Malleus Fatuorum|Malleus]] [[User_talk:Malleus_Fatuorum|Fatuorum]] 16:38, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

:: Can we guys close this section, it's getting off-topic and unhelpful. [[User:Secret|Secret]] ^{[[User talk:Secret|account]]} 18:50, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

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