[WikiEN-l] Rollback, and now here comes instruction creep

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James Farrar wrote:
> On 10/01/2008, Majorly <axel9891 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/01/2008, doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>> I said that giving admins the right to grant rollback would inevitably
>>> lead to process and instruction creep. Well, I didn't believe it would
>>> start this early.
>>>
>>> I was determined that if we were going to have this, it would not turn
>>> into another RfA, so I started granting requests made on the new
>>> "Rollback requests" page, using a very low threshhold: "unless you are
>>> evidently trouble, you get it - we can remove it, if you turn out to be"
>>>
>>> I am now being called a troll because I didn't make the request with
>>> {{done}}, which is apparently what I "need to do" so that a bot can
>>> archive the requests. Which is necessary for some unspecified reason.
>>> (Yes, I've asked "why?") So now we are going to have an archive and very
>>> precise rules as how to grant rollback (down to the last tick). It is
>>> already being said that we should not grant it through "backchannels"
>>> like e-mail. Unless people say "NO", we are soon going to have another
>>> RfA.
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_rollback#Archive
>>>
>> Where were you called a troll then?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_rollback&diff=183450062&oldid=183449865
> very clearly implies "we don't want your sort round here". It was not
> a helpful contribution.
> 

I probably got annoyed by that, and by an IRC badgering for not toeing 
the line.
Then there was this: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Doc_glasgow#Wikipedia:Requests_for_rollback

Sorry, I may have slightly overreacted. No-one called me a troll, 
exactly. But there are certainly WP:OWN issues here, and it matters 
because if this isn't resisted NOW, then it will settle in as a set of 
rules, and you will be told (as I already have) that you must conform or 
show consensus to do otherwise.

Again sorry for implying a personal attack where there was none. But I 
do feel that there is badgering to toe the line.