[WikiEN-l] Requirements for Adminship

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Feb 19 23:10:09 UTC 2007


Jossi Fresco wrote:

>On Feb 19, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Rich Holton wrote:
>  
>
>>If an experienced admin is "swaggering" and abusing power, then that
>>admin is causing an asymmetric amount of damage to the project; not  
>>the
>>kind of damage a vandal can cause, but damage none-the-less. We  
>>need to
>>have effective and efficient ways to curtail that kind of damage, just
>>like we need effective and efficient ways to curtail the damage a  
>>vandal
>>causes.
>>    
>>
>Are we editing the same Wikipedia? I have not seen such "swaggering"  
>and "abuse of power" but in exceptional cases.
>
If that's the case why are the exceptional cases dominating the 
conversation?  Are the admins so powerless that they can't control their 
renegades?

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