[WikiEN-l] Query admin powers

[David Gerard]

Skyring (skyring at gmail.com) [050104 00:21]:
> On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 05:43:26 -0700, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:

> > I would just wait for him to return from vacation. While seniority does not
> > exist on Wikipedia officially, in practice it does and certain editors such
> > as Adam Carr have a degree of favor. Other mechanisms for solving the
> > problem such as negotiating with him or mediating will also require his
> > presence.
 
> Adam may be on holiday, but he has made several changes to the article
> and the discussion page, where he states that he "can't check his
> references" at the moment. One might ask why he feels he is able to
> revert my edits, which I have backed up by some authoritative and
> readily available texts on the matter, if he is without access to
> reference material.
> In any case, he is flat out wrong on several points. No appeal to
> seniority or rankism can justify a stubborn insistence on untruths.


I would say this is absolutely not what page protection is for. I went to
unprotect it myself but someone else got there first.

I'm sure when Adam gets back differences can be sorted out on the Talk
page, though.


- d.