On 2/15/07, Gary Kirk gary.kirk@gmail.com wrote:
I don't agree with users who don't have sysop- or above (in the 'hierarchy') level access viewing deleted revisions.
How many users would have this permission, and how would they get it? Autoconfirm-style number of good edits + time on project = 'editor' level?
I am inclined to agree with Gary. If the bar for adminship has been raised too high, then lets do something to lower it - but having a discussion here isn't the way to do it. It needs to be among the regular RFA voters, and there needs to be some sort of broad consensus of what adminship should be. Coming up with a new status won't help - unless there is broad consensus, the same people are likely to vote in the same way they do now.
The "standards" for admins isn't something that can be changed top-down. It has developed in a bottom-up fashion in the community. The only way to change it is to change opinions in a bottom-up manner
On 2/15/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I propose that for the "editor" status (my proposal for a user right
between user and sysop), one would have the capabilities to edit
protected
articles, view deleted revisions, and generally view admin-olny things
(but
not actually perform sysop actions per se). And they might have a
toolbar
that would allow them to nominate these things...
That's a better idea. The protection bit could be done as a form of protection inbetween semi and full (and there could be a super-protection that can only be edited by people with oversight, checkuser and crats). Viewing deleted revisions would be good, but might cause some problems - some things are deleted because it's important that people don't see them (personal info, copyvios, etc), making more people able to see deleted revisions could be risky.
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