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On Saturday, 14th June, 2003, Erik Moeller wrote:
Karl-
[Snip]
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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James D. Forrester
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