User talk:Orthogonal/Gzornenplatz's vote against Snowspinner's RfA

Gzornenplatz's vote against Snowspinner's RfA, as found here (emphasis orthogonal's): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship&oldid=4935553#User:Snowspinner_.2862.2F9.2F3.29_Ends_17:06.2C_31_July_2004

I don't think Snowspinner has enough editing experience. Yes, he has over 2,600 edits, but looking at his last 100 contributions there are only about seven edits to articles. He may only have a few hundred article edits altogether. Paradoxically, this appears to be the very reason he has received so much support as opposed to the other nominees on this page - at least I can find no other explanation (if I'm wrong, maybe some who supported Snowspinner but not the others can explain their voting) other than that he is simply better known, and this is because the average "Wikipedia:" page is more widely read than the average article (and article edits are not signed). I find it troubling, however, that this way we tend to create a class of "professional sysops" who are merely supervising the actual editors who work on the articles. And I note that Snowspinner is already running for the Arbitration Committee, which I don't see as a good sign. Everyone here should be an editor in the first place, and the administrative tasks should be shared among editors, not entrusted to a separate class who does little else but administrating. Gzornenplatz 13:54, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC)

For comparison, at the time of this message, orthogonal's last 100 edits have 19 to articles, including such dramatic changes as changing "Bible" to "Christian Bible," making a year into a Wikilink, and a reversion. Snowspinner 02:28, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I have nearly three times the edits to article namespace in my last 100 as you did when running for admin, but no, I'm not running for admin. And it wasn't me who pointed this out, it was Gzornenplatz. And minor edits and reverts to articles are still more important to writing a dictionary than proposing policies and policing user pages. -- orthogonal 06:31, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)