Wikipedia:WikiSpeak/Decoding RfA

|+Use this highly useful and civil RfA decoder to know what is really meant in the oppose section:

! Oppose reason given:

! What it really means:

| no evidence of working collaboratively

| you haven't made enough friends yet to pass RfA

| not enough mainspace edits

| you're 12

| too many userboxes

| you're 12

| I can't read your signature

| you're 12

| you're 12

| I'm 12, but don't want to get opposed at my rfa later

| you've only been here 4 months, come back in three months and I'll support

| I've never heard of you. In the next three months, I'm sure you'll screw something up, and I'll use those diffs to oppose next time

| per WP:NOTNOW

| per WP:NOTEVER

| you use poor rationales in XfDs

| you voted once to delete an article 8 months ago that I voted to keep

| I think you're a great user, but

| I don't like you (also: I don't like your nominator and wish to spite him)

| per lack of maturity

| you opposed my RfA earlier

| I don't trust you with the block button

| I don't trust you with the block button

| too many concerns

| one of my friends already opposed and gave diffs. I didn't read the diffs, or look at your contribs, but hell, they gave diffs

| per answer to question 27B, part 1, follow up 3c, above.

| whew! I wasn't finding anything in your contribs, but you typed "their" when you clearly meant "there", and so I can only conclude that because of your poor grasp of English and grammar, you will be a poor admin, cuz you know, admins have to communicate clearly

| per civility issues

| You opposed my RfA earlier (also: you nommed my jibberish, unreferenced, non-notable in-universe, fictional character article for deletion) (also: You called me a dick when I was being a dick)

| Weak oppose

|I oppose, but I don't want to hurt your feelings/don't want to seem uncivil and hurt my RfA chances

| Moral support (in the oppose section)

| for way too many reasons to actually take the time to list. Besides, by the time I would finish typing out my reasons with diffs, I would end up edit-conflicting with the 'crat that snowed you under

| low edit summary usage

| I had to actually load up all those diffs to try and find misbehavior because you didn't use swear words in your edit summary. And I found nothing.

| concerns from previous RfA(s) have not been addressed

| you have addressed past concerns, but since I liked opposing you so much back then, I'm opposing again. Oh, and you have too many userboxes

| too quick to be involved in drama

| four possibilities:

1. I think you may have found my sockpuppets
2. you are too good to be easily fooled
3. you have a conscience
4. too quick to be involved in drama

| hasn't demonstrated a need for the tools

| too slow to be involved in drama.

| I want the crats to decide on this one

| I don't understand how RFA works

| many editors I respect have opposed

| my friends have spoken, and they don't like you.

| per lack of answer to my optional question

| by not answering my question, you make me feel less important.

| per above

| lots of other people have already opposed, so I'll jump on the bandwagon and oppose too. I wouldn't want to be the only supporter, it'll tank my own RfA later

| per above (may also mean:)

| you pissed me off sometime in the past, and since I don't want to say that out of fear of getting flamed (again) by you, and since I don't quite remember what it was that you did, and because I'm entirely too lazy to go digging through diffs, I'll cover my ass with this

| sorry, but...

| I'm not actually sorry, and allow me (you don't have a choice) to go into excruciating detail as to why I feel you are incompetent

|+Use this highly useful and civil decoder for the support section

| You are 12 and so am I

| You have 12,000 edits so you must be good – it's not my fault if I didn't notice that 90% of them were vandalism

| I had an argument with Kurt about something, and I've noticed he's opposing you

| I hope the nominator sees this and nominates me next

| The cabal has spoken

| I have a few "favors" to ask of you once this RfA is over

| I didn't look at your talkpage/block log/contribs/, my friends are already supporting

| I support, but I'll change if my friends vote oppose.

| I am a 13 year old boy and I think the photograph of ([http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h10/tendertrap/Prism.jpg allegedly]) yourself on your userpage looks hot

| Deletes articles based on any reason given; deletionist, just like me

| my friends have spoken, and they like you

| I read that one "Decoding RfA" page and have decided to suck up to its writers by copying and pasting the reason they clearly approve of despite the fact that I haven't actually bothered to check any of the candidate's contributions

|+And of course, some Wikipedians just simply can't make up their minds about anything...