Board Thread:Chat Mod and Elections/@comment-3571637-20160423211857/@comment-8161155-20160427012114

I say do away with edit requirements for admins altogether. Users already need at least 100 edits to vote in such matters. We can trust these users to nominate a qualified person. A major point of admins is to have someone with authority who can shut down problems with users, which would happen in chat and on threads. Thus, while mainspace edits are useful when nominating an admin who would presumably manage deletion and rename nominations, page creation, etc., not all admins need do this.