Erik Moeller wrote:
On 4/14/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
In short, I think that only editors known by a significant number of other editors should ever be given checkuser access. Hence the 25 votes. Which may be too high a value.
Yes, I think changing the phrase "25-30 editors approval" to "the approval of 10 active editors" would be a reasonable change that can be made without too much bureaucracy. While it's good to be cautious about these things, specific parameters like this are *meant* to be tuned. Be bold :-)
Erik
I would be comfortable with a policy that requires XX% of very active users (defined as 100 edits/month) as an alternative minimum, with a hard minimum of somewhere between 5-10 users. Even very small projects can usually come up with at least five people, or they really are "one-man band" type projects dominated by a single editor. For larger projects like en.wikipedia, the 30 editor minimum approval seems very reasonable or perhaps even a little bit low.