I renamed [[Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship]] to [[Wikipedia:Requests for review of admin actions]].
I hope that this will lessen the general tension between "old hands" who have sysop rights and "newbies" who don't.
The idea is to focus on the action itself, not the actor. And the remedy if any would be to reconsider the decision, which is very easy and non-threatening.
Thanks to Caroline (MySecretLondon) for sparking this idea.
Kindly ol' Uncle Ed
Wasn't that the purpose of [[Wikipedia:Possible misuses of admin privileges]]? This page was created to handle requests for deadminship which weren't related to admin actions. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_review_of_...
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I renamed [[Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship]] to [[Wikipedia:Requests for review of admin actions]].
I hope that this will lessen the general tension between "old hands" who have sysop rights and "newbies" who don't.
The idea is to focus on the action itself, not the actor. And the remedy if any would be to reconsider the decision, which is very easy and non-threatening.
Thanks to Caroline (MySecretLondon) for sparking this idea.
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