[WikiEN-l] No RFAs in progress...

[David Gerard]

On 23/08/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Most of the whining that "it's impossible to de-admin someone" means
> > the complainant is upset that someone can't be deadminned because the
> > complainant is upset, and there's all this *tedious procedure* to go
> > through. In practice, it's easier now than it's ever been.

> Yes, but the reason we make it quite difficult to desysop someone is
> because it's rarely necessary, since we are so careful not to promote
> anyone questionable. If we relax promotions, we would need to relax
> demotions too. And if we relax demotions, we would be able to relax
> promotions. It's rather circular, but the end result is that we have
> to do both at the same time for it to work.


What criteria for deadminning are you thinking of? "Unpopular for
deleting 1000 fair-abuse images" or something that'll be usable for
that shouldn't be amongst them, for instance.


- d.