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- From the technical aspect, we do not require admins to know
everything an admin could ever have use for. There are many admins
who wouldn't go within 50 feet of a range-block, but may be experts
at copyright violation deletions or mediawiki modifications.
en: xaosflux
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From: "Ron Ritzman" <ritzman(a)gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] CheckUser access requests? Huh?
What I want to know is why they don't just open up
checkuser to
more admins? Anybody who is trusted with tools that allow him to
make pages go away (including the main page) and keep anybody they
want from
editing would not be trusted with checkuser. Or is it a matter of
the technical knowledge needed to properly interpret checkuser
results?
Then again, admins have, or should have, enough knowledge about
networking to know what IP ranges to block to get rid of a
troublesome troll+socks but minimize the effect on innocent
editors.
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