G'day Peter,
On 5/19/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
[[WP:NPA]], that's heading for a month now. It's great being a rouge admin :-D
At risk of involving myself in this matter, I have to ask what the difference between rouge and rogue is. Is this simply the difference between an Australian and another spelling. Because I think its perfectly sensible to have a sentence that says "its great being a rogue admin", but I dont see how rouge, which is in my view a colour of makeup, relates to this sentence.
Heh! It's a long-standing Wikipedia in-joke.
Basically: * A rouge admin is a good admin who is hated by trolls and ne'er-do-wells. Being "rouge" is a Good Thing, although there are policy wonks who tell us it's better to treat trolls and ne'er-do-wells according to process, no matter what, and that rougeness is therefore not to be encouraged.
* A rogue admin is a bad admin who uses their admin powers to deliberately harm the project.
We have few rogues, fortunately, (only one that I know of in our entire history, although there may be a second we haven't identified) but very many rouges.