On 4/20/06, slimvirgin@gmail.com slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/20/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
Is it the right of every administrator to second-guess the administrative actions of any other administrator, and instantly revert them if they feel justified?
The culture of feeling entitled to instantly revert, though, is quite damaging.
Exactly right. Some admins have adopted a definition of "wheel warring" that excludes the first revert of an admin action -- so that if X blocks, and Y unblocks, Y is not wheel warring. But if X restores the block, X has started the wheel war. This is nonsense. The first person to undo the original admin action has started the wheel war, and it's that first undoing that shouldn't be happening as a rule.
I concur entirely with Sarah's definition of when a wheel war begins. This culture of "free whacks at the post" has to go. NOBODY is entitled to revert without discussion. 3RR says we're willing to tolerate it for regular editors. Admins are expected to be above this. Any admin who doesn't want to play by this rule is invited to visit [[m:Requests for permissions]].
Kelly