As far as I know there has always been an activity requirement for Commons admins. We just made the criteria less vague. Even the first version http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators&oldid=18 has an inactivity section in it. Note that Commons adminship is generally not a big deal and that users who show interest in the community pass the RFA easily.
But you are right, we should have informed affected users. I'm sorry that we forgot.
Bryan
On 8/12/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
I just love the way that 21 users can vote to make a de-adminship policy without notifying any of the users concerned, including AFAIK on here. Nonsense like this only makes those more active on other projects tempted to only contribute to those projects and not Commons.
-Matt
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