On 6/28/06, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
The case is that if someone is 'trusted' it's likely he will be an admin.
In theory. In practice, there are a lot of people who are trustworthy enough to get rollback, Special:Patrol rights, the right to edit some extra pages (i.e., add a third possible level of protection), and similar tweaks, but who wouldn't necessarily be trusted to have the effectively permanent right to, e.g., block people indefinitely. An intermediate group would be especially valuable on enwiki, where admins have to step really grossly out of line to be accountable for their actions (some wikis have a reconfirmation scheme that makes admins more accountable to the general populace of the wiki, for good or for bad).