On 04/01/2008, doc doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com wrote:
Old hands will remember the perennial proposal to grant non-admins rollback facilities. We polled on this for 6 months in 2006, 500 people voiced an opinion and we got no consensus.
Well, it's back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non_administrator_rollback
Another day, another poll. But what worries me here is that the advocates have opened a poll for 6 days in the holidays and intend that should determine the mind of the community. It ends on Sunday, and they are already declaring vicrory with only 49 supports.
Interesting indeed.
I didn't even know there *was* polling - I saw it being discussed on IRC the other day and got the impression that adopting rollback had been decided on at some point already, and I just hadn't heard about it.