[WikiEN-l] Admins without validated e-mail addresses (was: RfAs)

[Ilmari Karonen]

Pete Bartlett wrote:
>>Arwel wrote:
> 
>>I agree that all admins /should/ to have a valid email 
>>contact address, and really ought to be de-adminned if they don't 
>>provide one.
> 
> Once again assumes that the set of all admins is equal to the 
> set of admins who get involved in contentious actions.
> 
> We really must stamp out this false assumption.
> 
> There are many many admins who never do something sufficiently contentious 
> to warrant the use of email. I personally have made admin actions numbering 
> in the hundreds and have _never_ been emailled about them.

We currently instruct blocked users to contact the blocking admin by 
e-mail if they wish to dispute the block or find themselves blocked as 
"collateral damage".  For such people, finding that the admin who 
blocked them refuses to accept e-mail is adding insult to injury.

I agree that, for admins who never block users and never perform any 
even potentially controversial admin actions, an e-mail address is not 
absolutely necessary.  I do believe that's a rather small minority.

-- 
Ilmari Karonen