[WikiEN-l] Re: Dev request re rollback (was issues)

[Anthere]

moink wrote:
>>>If admins are abusing this feature, then they should be told to knock it off
>>>and only use their sysop user rights to fight vandalism. Using those powers as
>>>a tool to use against your opponents in an edit war is not acceptable and was
>>>my main point with former-admin 168...
>>
> 
> Just to clarify then, are admins only supposed to use the rollback
> link in cases of simple vandalism?  I wasn't aware that this was
> policy, and I've used it a couple of times to revert things that were
> a little more complex than run-of-the-mill vandalism.  Of course, I've
> never gotten into a revert war (how *do* people manage that?) but I'd
> still like to make sure I'm following the rules.
> 
> moink

If you refer to what happened to 168, I would certainly recommand that 
you only use that feature against pure vandal. Though there seems to be 
no rule about it, it was perceived an abuse to use it in an edit war, 
all the more against a non sysop.

It is not a rule, but I think it is best that sysops should not use 
power they have in disagreement with other users who do not have that 
power. Yes, both can do revert, but using the rollback feature is 
perceived as a "power".