On 10/10/06, geni geniice@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.