[Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der Zedler-Me...

[Virgilio A. P. Machado]

Dear Mr. Will Johnson,

Three hurrays for the separations of powers, checks and balances and 
full accountability to oneself, others and the foundations of a 
civilized community.

You got my attention and my empathy.

Virgilio A. P. Machado


At 19:43 25-11-2010, you wrote:
>In a message dated 11/25/2010 10:57:11 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>jayen466 at yahoo.com writes:
>
>
> > It's a headache for the copyright team on en:WP because they have to
> > figure out which came first.
> >
>
>First there should be a presumption that established editors (I've been
>in-project for seven years), do not do copyvios.
>
>Second there should be absolutely NO grant made to *admins* to police
>copyvio content issues.  None.  Zero.  Admins have no position from 
>which to make
>a call that is any different from an established editor or reviewer.  The
>creeping rights of admins are just ridiculous.  Admins have dozens of
>"rights" that established editors do not, over content, and they shouldn't.
>
>It's an old drum that I keep beating.  Admins keep granting each other more
>rights, and soon all that we will have in-project will be admins.  No
>editors at all.
>
>All content issue rights, should be removed from admins.  That's my
>position.  All of them.  Every content issue right period.
>
>W