[Foundation-l] Renaming "Flagged Protections"

[Andrew Garrett]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 2:25 AM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> No, it really isn't a legitimate concern. It wasn't a legitimate concern
> when the "AbuseFilter" was enabled and every user had a public "abuse log".
> And with that feature came the ability to tag edits. We now mark edits with
> generally inflammatory remarks that are impossible to have removed. Naming
> wasn't a concern when file description pages were all prefixed with
> "Image:". It wasn't a concern when RevDelete was enabled (first for
> oversighters, then for everyone else). RevDelete doesn't apply to just
> revisions, and the user rights associated with it could not have been more
> confusingly named if someone had tried deliberately.

Contradiction aside, I think that what you've proven here is that
under no circumstances should any engineer be permitted to name
anything. We should institute this as a rule in Wikimedia development
in general.

-- 
Andrew Garrett
http://werdn.us/