[WikiEN-l] Rename admins to janitors

[George Herbert]

On 3/6/07, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But change it to something like "janitor". Or at least
> > something less formidable than "administrator", like "trusted user."
>
> Trusted user is the wrong term. Many people are trusted but not admins
> on a specific project. (Not to mention some admins can't be trusted).

Truster user is how a lot of people interpret it.  If you look at en
WP:ANI, for example, a lot of the stuff coming to that venue doesn't
really need an admin's power to deal with - any trusted and reasonable
user can handle a lot of the situations just by intervening politely
and talking to people.  And a fair number of non-admins do participate
there.


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-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com