[WikiEN-l] Your comments on wikien-l regarding adminship

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

There's a reason why adminship isn't given to everyone. If you do it the
other way around, abuse can cause a lot more damage before the person
abusing the rights get blocked which will result in a lot more housekeeping
to undo damage. It's nice in theory, but it simply doesn't work in practice.

People who get adminship should display knowledge of the rules. If any
newbie got those powers, this would be anarchapedia.

Mgm

On 2/9/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> IMHO, it should be easier to get adminship as a) it's No Big Deal(r)
> and b) all actions can now  be reversed - and users can quickly be
> dysopped. The three month tenure, however, I find silly - if someone
> was good enough and behaved well for those three months then obviously
> they should be allowed to continue. Desysopping after three months
> would turn the whole RfA process into a lottery-like game - "if it's
> no big deal, why can't I continue as an admin?".
>
> I also disagree with not allowing users to object to more than one RfA
> every three months - Wikipedia is not a democracy.
>
> On 2/9/07, Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Kelly Martin wrote:
> > >
> > > Have you seen my proposal for adminship?  It's on my blog at
> > >
> >
> http://nonbovine-ruminations.blogspot.com/2006/10/proposal-for-adminship-on-english.html
> >
> > Nice. You appear to be going in the same direction as me, but I want it
> > even more radical. :) In particular, your system still requires people
> > to _ask_ for adminship (which, again, would be analogous to requiring
> > them to apply for editing privileges instead of just letting people
> > register freely), and I find one month a bit excessive. Other than that,
> > I think you hit the nail on the head :)
> >
> >
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