WP:IAR is - at least in my opinion - an emergency action. If there's time to collaborate and get other opinions, then IAR needs to be invoked carefully. Deleting the main page (to see if it can be done!) was a horribly hasty action to take. Shouldna' happened. Discipline of some type is in order.
I'm not sure if I could advocate a "forever" de-sysop for it, but I'm sure thinking long and hard about it.
Who in their right mind thinks "hey! I wonder if I can delete the main page?" and then TRIES it without asking around a bit?
Even with the very best of intentions, this is the type of ill-reasoned action that scares the hell out of me.
Philippe
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Tim Starling" tstarling@wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 11:31 PM To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] [Fwd: Re: Deletion of large pages]
NavouWiki wrote:
Garbage.
Desysop east for improving the encyclopedia by technically precluding the deletion of the main page? The proposal is garbage.
Desysop East718 for out-of-process deletion of the main page and destruction of the page history.
-- Tim Starling
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