In terms of egregious violations, sure, it's fine to act swiftly and doesn't necessarily require consultation. But people do this even with garden variety actions, which just isn't necessary.
I always make it a point to express my reservations and give the original administrator the courtesy of reversing his or her decision as a result, rather than me doing it for them. Obviously everybody thinks they're doing the right thing, but in this instance I think more administrators would do well to adopt this model. Having an article protected an extra 5 hours while the protecting administrator, for instance, evaluates your objections, isn't going to bring Wikipedia crashing down. It is, however, a much better way to treat our peers.
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On 4/23/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Katefan0 wrote:
Ugh, when do we get to the part where I have to figure out whether a car loaded with apples going north can beat a train loaded with figs going in the same direction?
Elementary! Since apples have smoother skins than figs there will be less friction and that train will go faster. :-) The problem where there are pears instead of figs is more difficult because the skins are similar. We would need to study the relative aerodynamics of the two forms.
The basic problem is one of ego. For a place that prides itself on collegiality among editors, and particularly among administrators, we
simply
step on one another's toes too often. I don't see why we need to have all this parsing and ABC'ing when what we really need is to tug on a few ears and remind each other that it's rarely polite to undermine someone
without
so much as a word.
Sure. If the original administrator to take action feels undermined by a single reversal it is a matter of putting his ego ahead of the good of the community. The reverter should explain what he is doing, but at this stage an explanatory note with the revert will suffice.
Ec
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