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Message: 8 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 10:52:41 -0600 From: "Kelly Martin" kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Analysis of Request for Adminship To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: bd4c411e0604020952s623ec6fr7b607a60bbe1e77f@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On 4/1/06, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
What backlogs do we have that only admins can deal with?
Indeed. I'm not clear when the policy that a non-admin cannot close an AfD came into play, for example. When I was first an admin, it was the case that non-admins could close AfDs, but it's my understanding now that a non-admin who attempts to close an AfD will probably get blocked.
Kelly
I closed quite a few this January without being blocked. Including a few relatively controversial articles. While I have since been informed that I shouldn't have closed those ones, nobody said anything about them to me at the time, much less blocked me.
-- Jonel