[WikiEN-l] Indefinite block and desysopping by User:Danny

[Carl Fûrstenberg]

Are we ment to be afraid of danny?

On 4/19/06, Katefan0 <katefan0wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why is it problematic? It's a simple enough thing to simply ask Danny
> first
> before undoing something he's done, whether or not he's acted on behalf of
> the foundation.  I've done it before (and gotten a "yes but I'd rather
> this
> stay low profile" answer very quickly).
>
> Everybody who's an administrator knows -- or ought to know -- that any of
> Danny's actions could be undertaken on behalf of the foundation. To me,
> this
> suggests -- in fact, demands -- a lot more caution with undoing his admin
> actions than otherwise, and at the very least warrants a discreet "what's
> this about?" before taking action.
>
> k
>
> On 4/19/06, Matt R <matt_crypto at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Katefan0 <katefan0wiki at gmail.com>:
> > > I think that lately Danny has not been using the OFFICE tag because
> > people
> > > tend to raise a fuss over things protected under this specific policy,
> > and
> > > more publicity to/furor over an issue that's already very sensitive is
> a
> > > thorny thing to deal with.  My guess, anyway.
> >
> > Forgive me if I haven't understood this correctly, but: OFFICE actions
> are
> > unreversible on pain of dire consequences (e.g. desysopping and
> indefinite
> > banning), yet anything that Danny does could be an OFFICE action even
> though
> > not identified as such? This seems very problematic; is there now a
> class of
> > editor (Danny) whose actions noone can now dare risk undoing in case the
> > action turns out to be an OFFICE action? Surely not.
> >
> > -- Matt
> >
> >
> >
> >
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