(Doesn't LittleDan state that his parents know about
his >work on Wikipedia?)
Yes, but an initial requirement for parental permission/knowledge might have detered me. Besides, restricting minors, even if for legal reasons, detracts from the whole wiki-ness of Wikipedia. The whole anon/username/sysop/developer/Jimbo hierarchy makes proponents of usemod-style wikis say that WikiPediaIsNotTypical (see MeatballWiki article of that title) or even that it is not a wiki in the traditional sense. If we gave children a seperate level of hierarchy, we'd have twice as many ranks (actually, we wouldn't have child Jimbos). This is very undesiarable.
I'm getting on a tangent, but I think we should just have only the ranks of users, developer-rank people, and Jimbo. Recently, as you all know, a previously developer-only feature of Wikipedia was just given to all sysops. I don't see why sysops shouldn't have database access, and that is the only difference. I also don't think that anons should be treated differently than other non-sysop users, this is just discriminating against them. LDan
__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com