Personally I could agree that the power to "remove reviewer right" could
be restricted to some special class of user, but only if the power to
"grant reviewer right" is subject to even more scrutiny.
If reviewer right is wrongly removed - we'll have the internal problem
of an upset editor (big deal? not - get over it!), however if it is
granted to someone who misuses it then it breaches our quality control
and can damage living people.
I really have little sympathy for those more concerned about internal
power structures or egalitarian principles in wikiland, that how what we
do impacts on the reader, and more importantly the bio subject who is
the victim of our structural carelessness.
WJhonson(a)aol.com wrote:
<<In a message dated 4/2/2009 5:18:23 A.M.
Pacific Daylight Time,
carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com writes:
Will, look at the example I provided earlier in this thread.
Established editors and admins were blindly reverting vandalism and
leaving an article in a state of previous vandalism. How do you begin
to address that problem?>>
You don't address it by allowing any admin who got their badge knowing next
to nothing about NOR (as many don't) do remove the right of established users
who have been in-project ten times longer than they. I will never, not
ever, agree to giving admins extra powers. They already have several powers they
should not have in my opinion. The idea behind admins, imho, was supposed
to be that they are helpful janitors clearning up messes, not theat they were
thought police enforcing the boundary line with clubs.
If we want to create new powers, then we need perhaps new categories of
user. For those users who do not want to be police, but are quite willing to
enhance the content of the project, we should create a parallel track, not a
subordinate one. No matter what anyone states, if a reviewer's right can be
removed at the whim (yes whim) of any admin, then reviewers are subordinate to
admins. They should not be.
Will Johnson
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