G'day Peter,
On 5/19/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG
<guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
[[WP:NPA]], that's heading for a month now.
It's great being a rouge
admin :-D
At risk of involving myself in this matter, I have to ask what the
difference between rouge and rogue is. Is this simply the difference
between an Australian and another spelling. Because I think its
perfectly sensible to have a sentence that says "its great being a
rogue admin", but I dont see how rouge, which is in my view a colour
of makeup, relates to this sentence.
Heh! It's a long-standing Wikipedia in-joke.
Basically:
* A rouge admin is a good admin who is hated by trolls and
ne'er-do-wells. Being "rouge" is a Good Thing, although there are
policy wonks who tell us it's better to treat trolls and
ne'er-do-wells according to process, no matter what, and that
rougeness is therefore not to be encouraged.
* A rogue admin is a bad admin who uses their admin powers to
deliberately harm the project.
We have few rogues, fortunately, (only one that I know of in our entire
history, although there may be a second we haven't identified) but very
many rouges.
--
Mark Gallagher
"What? I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!"
- Danger Mouse
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