[WikiEN-l] Policy is done by administrators without consultation!

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 1 Jun 2007 at 10:01:36 +0200, "MacGyverMagic/Mgm" 
<macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Slim Virgin wrote:
> > > > Risker, the situation was that a bunch of admins had been removing
> > > > links to attack sites for about 18 months. Not in any kind of
> > > > systematic way (i.e. not hunting them down so far as I know), but just
> > > > removing them if they noticed one. That was the de facto policy.
> > > > *That's how policy develops, by admins doing things.* It just wasn't
> > > > written down anywhere.
> 
> Not even all admins agree. That's a very small group to base a concensus
> around.

There's an obvious solution to that... impose political litmus tests 
within the RFA procedure on prospective admin candidates to make sure 
that nobody with the politically incorrect position on a sensitive 
issue ever becomes an admin.


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