- The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful request for adminship. Please do not modify it.
Statement by closing bureaucrat
As this was a moderately close (by the numbers) RfA, I felt I'd be doing the community a disservice if I didn't provide my rationale for why I felt there was sufficient consensus to promote Tadakuni to administrator.
The opposes, on the whole, do outline areas where the candidate could make improvements. Some of the specific areas outlined are a lack of edits in the project namespace, which suggests an ignorance of Wikipedia policy and guideline. However, as other editors have pointed out, there is not necessarily a correlation between the two; I don't want to say that the arguments were negated, as that suggests that the editors were summarily dismissed (which they most certainly weren't), but the community is obviously of two minds on the matter. However, most all participants, most tellingly the opposers and those that were neutral, tended to be vocal about Tadakuni's positive contributions to the project.
Taking all this into consideration, I think it is fair to say there is enough support for the candidate to warrant a promotion. However, I must stress that I believe Tadakuni should find one or two seasoned administrators to use as reference points for any administrative questions he may have to allay the concerns of the opposing editors; the concern over inexperience is a real one, just not dominant enough to warrant a failed RfA. EVula // talk // ☯ // 00:28, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]