User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/This Month at Fandom - September 2019/@comment-38306054-20191008031710/@comment-1807002-20191008223801

"MisterWoodhouse wrote: Kevin is partially right. We use a mixture of staff observation, user nominations, and analytics to find great editors to honor."

I am glad to hear there are multiple facets to the "editor of the month" picks.