[WikiEN-l] Fleshlight

[Sam Korn]

On 10/10/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> That principle would be flawed on a number of levels. You can undo the
> fact that someone has been blocked. Most editors can't undo deletions.
> Screwing up certain things in the mediawiki namespace is bad. The
> amount of damage an editor can do is the for the most part minimal.
> The amount of damage an admin can do both to wikipedia and other
> editors is rather more significant.

It is not a contradiction to say that you should always be careful in
being bold.  Such care should be in direct proportion to a) how
important the action is and b) how irreversible it is.

Of course admins have to be bold in their actions.  They don't have to
be reckless (they don't even have to ignore *any* rules).  But admins
absolutely do have to be bold, they have always had to be bold and it
is necessary that they are bold so that the project does not get
entrenched.

Wikipedia would not work if its admins were not bold.

-- 
Sam