On 16 Sep 2006, at 13:37, geni wrote:
On 9/16/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Now, a question for you:
Q. The above looks good to geni.
[ ] Yes [ ] No [ ] Much longer and detailed answer, which geni will give below:
It's okish for editors and a really bad idea for admins. Editors actions can be undone by pretty much anyone. Admin actions cannot. An editor doing something annoying will merely result in them being reverted. Admins actions can affect far larger numbers of people. Most people accept WP:OWN applies to edits. A section of admins keeps trying to claim that it does not apply to admin actions making it even harder to revert the things. Admins are meant to serve the community. The powers were only given by the community in order to do what the community wanted. They were not given for you to do whatever seemed like a good idea at the time.
IAR is ok for content but admin actions apply to people rather than content.
Yes - this is a good point about IAR.
Rules protect people from the abuse of power. I'm not so worried about protecting content, as it can always be restored.
Once a person has gone, that's it.