On 04/01/2008, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Sergey "putnik" Leschina wrote:
This is translation of discussion about banners with Ramir at the Forum: http://ru.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?oldid=25807#.D0.9A.D0.BD.D0.BE.D0.BF.D0....
I'd already started this discussion before, but it was archived. Let me repeat that every Foundation project should by default have banners for the Foundation's and engine's websites. Removing #f-poweredbyico, #f-copyrightico{display:none} from MediaWiki:Monobook.css would be enough to restore them. --putnik
You don't need to repeat. You need to provide [us/me] with a link to Foundation's official requirements. Or I'll archive such advisors again. --Ramir
Isn't simple respect to those who host the project enough? --putnik
The hosters have lost the respect of Wikibooks' users and benefactors long ago. And they put advertisement for their [derogatory synonym for 'profit'] in big Latin letters at the top of every page; one banner is enough for them. --Ramir
Sounds like a pretty clear-cut case of abuse of sysop powers.
Which is pretty inevitable when you only have one sysop. He's effectively a god-king, and truely benevolent god-kings are hard to come by. The solution would be to create some more sysops.