On 10/8/05, Aaron Sherman ajs@ajs.com wrote:
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 11:09 +0200, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
On 10/8/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Snow wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
[...] I don't see why the authority to merge-and-redirect should be limited to administrators. I've always found the resistance to merges puzzling.
The reason is that an admin is required to end the AfD, not that an admin is required to click on the "edit" button.
Why is an admin required to end an AfD? Doesn't this contradict the statement on [[Wikipedia:Administrators]] that "Administrators are not imbued with any special *authority"?
*It used to be the case that non-admins could close any VFD with a keep result. This has been changed, though, and now we're only supposed to close "unambiguous" keep decisions. See [[Wikpedia:Deletion process]]. An admin *isn't* required to end an AfD.
Time to remove the statement about admins not having any special authority, I suppose.