[WikiEN-l] Analysis of Request for Adminship

[nwilkins at bu.edu]

Quoting wikien-l-request at Wikipedia.org:

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> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 10:52:41 -0600
> From: "Kelly Martin" <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Analysis of Request for Adminship
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
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> On 4/1/06, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What backlogs do we have that only admins can deal with?
> 
> Indeed.  I'm not clear when the policy that a non-admin cannot
> close
> an AfD came into play, for example.  When I was first an admin, it
> was
> the case that non-admins could close AfDs, but it's my
> understanding
> now that a non-admin who attempts to close an AfD will probably get
> blocked.
> 
> Kelly
> 

I closed quite a few this January without being blocked.  Including a few
relatively controversial articles.  While I have since been informed that I
shouldn't have closed those ones, nobody said anything about them to me at the
time, much less blocked me.  

-- Jonel