On 4/19/06, Elisabeth Bauer elian@djini.de wrote:
And then it is okay to revert another admin's actions without even asking before? This seems to me a problem of lack of good faith an admin should assume.
Sometimes. If they say move the main page or mess with the mediawiki names space. Exactly where you draw the line is open to deabte
This was not a misunderstanding, this was lack of good faith. Erik should have trusted danny that he has good reasons for an action which might not be selfexplaining. If he wanted to know more, he could have asked. And an admin who acts before he understands the situation can - as this incident has shown - potentially endanger the foundation.
Admins almost never work with complete information.
It is often better to play things low and not on an official level. I don't know if this was the case here.
In theory. However my experence is that on wikipedia doing thing unofficialy can often lead to more screaming in the long run.
-- geni