On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
2009/5/21 Jay Litwyn
<brewhaha(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>ca>:
Nothing is to do here. Adminships, last time I
checked, are already
subject
to a time-out under admins open to recall. I do not think it matters
whether
it's three months, twelve, or fifty months. If that's the length of
your
term, then it does not matter if you go into a coma due to a bad batch
of
homebrew: You're still an admin. The subject is whether it is ever
proper to
hand over accounts. Maybe it's proper to hand an account over to your
wife
or secretary; probably common practice. I think there are some
organizational accounts around; they're clearly identified as such. I
saw
one that had a specific scope in botanical medicine.
The English Wikipedia has never had a policy of desysopping inactive
admins whether they are open to recall or not (which far from all
admins are). Adminship is for life unless the account is compromised,
you do something seriously wrong or you resign. I don't know if there
is a specific written policy against handing over account, but I doubt
the community would accept such an action, especially for an admin
account. It certainly isn't common practice. Role accounts are usually
banned on sight. They used to be allowed for certain things, but went
out of fashion years ago.
Not strictly true, but they are very limited in what they are used
for. Mainly for contact purposes.