Admin Elitism (part 2)
Actually, the previous submission wasn't all I had to say; I got cut off because I had
to leave.
The last sentence, "Why shouldn't adminship be a trophy", was never answered
be me.
The answer is, "because it isn't".
Its original purpose was because somebody would use the tools. But it seems that not only
does someone need to require the tools, they *also* need to write new articles. Which has
jack to do with adminship.
That may seem to have little to do with the topic at hand, but in fact it is closely
related.
Writing good articles and doing general non-admin things should NOT be a reason for
adminship. An article-writer would have little to no use for the admin tools. And a
recent-canges patroller who is turned down because she "doesn't write
articles" would be rightly confused.
I think the root of this "adminship is a reward for writing articles etc"
attitude is that people think just that and forget the core principles of being an
administrator.
My suggestion to root all the unecessary sysops is to create two eschelons of
"elevated" users.
The "writers" and the "sysops".
A sysop would be just like an ordinary sysop; delete, protect, block, and reverse all
those.
But a writer would be more of an honorific and would not have some of the capabilities.
The only capabilities a writer would have would be to delete OR protect (haven't
decided yet).
A sysop's only responsibility should be to understand Wikipedia policies and
guidelines, and be willing to use the sysop tools. I would actually be a writer since I
don't partol RC or go to AIV.
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