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On Saturday, 14th June, 2003, Erik Moeller wrote:
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Perhaps it's just the title ("sysop") I don't like. I would agree with something called "advanced editor" or "senior editor", though.
That would be highly misleading. Sysops are *not* editors, they are not responsible for moderating content,
Agreed. And the semantics of the word are apparent from the explanations already available on the Wikipedia; changing it because people can get confused would set a precedent for leading the Wikipedia into the ground with name changes - this is, after all, English, the language with (perhaps?) the widest vocabulary of all. Why stop with 'sysop', when we could change other words, such as 'developer' - doesn't this give connotations of people developing articles to you?
they merely deal with vandalism and carry out the requests of the users (e.g. votes for deletion).
Indeed. I think, given that they 'operate' the anti-vandalism 'system', we should concatenate the two terms, so that they should be called, err, 'system operators'. Oh, wait...
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