I can't easily thing of anything more harmful to WP. The only possible way of improving policy is to get new people in, and the way admins get their training is by participating in AfD's. Most people here think decision making in WP is much too narrowly concentrated in the first place, and for senior people to propose shutting junior people out shows an amazing unawareness of the general feeling. For senior people to think that ordinary wikipedians can't tell the contributions of anonymous POV-pushers from anonymous well-intentioned people shows an amazing unawareness of actual dynamics in discussions. It wholly confirms what I said earlier today, that there is no admin or editor (myself included), whom I trust to always have common sense. Tony & SV, don't you realize how such sentiments can be used against you?
DGG
On 6/14/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/15/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/14/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not proposing that we go down that path, but it's a very respectable position that deserves consideration.
There have been various suggestions in the past. (1) That only admins be allowed to edit policy pages, and we could extend that to BLP issues, which would include BLP AfDs; (2) same as (1) but using a minimum edit count rather than adminship; (3) that only users willing to identify themselves be allowed to be edit BLPs or decide on BLP deletions or policies. I do think it's time we started discussing these options seriously.
I do think it might help a bit. The number of editors who take part in policy discussions and process pages is relatively low in any case. In connection with another matter, I'm sending my scanned passport off to Wikimedia in a few days anyway, so it isn't as if we don't already require it for some functions.
Would it help? Well I don't know overall. But it would make accountability better.
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