I'm fairly sympathetic to the idea of separating out features to be doled out on a finer grain level, but many oppose it because it is creating different shades, and thereby different classes, of users, which is something Wikipedia has never been about. As mentioned in other threads, this leads to "collecting privileges" like medals or awards, when the spirit of Wikipedia has been to treat adminship as even "no big deal."
A reminder - the primary reason for admin status was because of page deletion, and that's where the "trusted user" idea came from.
On 6/30/05, Michael Turley michael.turley@gmail.com wrote:
Rollback is *ideally suited* for reverting vandalism. Perhaps it is equally suited for edit warring, but if it were *more* suited for edit warring than its intended purpose, I'm pretty sure it would have been written out of the software by now.
Um, but because rollback is given only to trusted users right now, this is not a problem.
Even for admins, they are discouraged from using rollback for issues related to legitimate content issues. Rollback should be used for fighting vandalism and trolling, and not as a standard part of an editor's toolbox.
-User:Fuzheado