On 4/20/06, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org>
wrote:
But Danny has explicitly said (on this list) that
he is also a normal
editor, and only his actions that are accompanied with a statement that
they are WP:OFFICE actions should be treated as such. So if he does
something and does not tag it WP:OFFICE, we should all operate on the
presumption that he is doing it in his capacity as a normal Wikipedian.
That does not excuse reversion without discussion. Even taking as an
assumption that Danny had been acting on his own behalf, Erik's
actions could easily have been the start of a wheel war, and were
inappropriate by any reasonable standard. WP:OFFICE has nothing to do
with that; wheel warring is still wheel warring.
He didn't revert Danny's edits or wheel war. Danny stubbed and
protected the page; Erik noted that he was willing to give Danny the
benefit of the doubt on stubbing, but that the protection was contrary
to the protection policy (a correct observation), so unprotected the
page but left it stubbed. It is quite acceptable and even encouraged to
unprotect pages that have been inappropriately protected.