"Thank you all very much for your input. I've thought about this a long time and I do still think its premature. I take onboard some of the points made here and elsewhere and agree that maybe a full year as an admin isn't strictly necessary - however I still believe that a few more months of experience before asking the community to extend their trust of me is a good idea. Also, the present crats have everything more than under control and there are plenty of other things for me to be doing. I certainly won't let thing go undone however and would consider running whenever backlogs started to mount again. Otherwise, perhaps this is a matter we could revisit towards then end of this year, or start of next... Thanks especially to U.S.A. for a kindly written nomination. scribe 

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