On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:49:21 -0800, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
I find this attempt to give admins even more power objectionable. There are plenty of us who have been around for a long time without having become admins. Many operate in limited non-controversial areas. The result would be a huge number of articles that will need to be edited by admins; these articles previously managed quite well without involvement of admins.
I agree. As an idea, giving content powers to admins sucks badly. I hardly get to write any content these days, for which I can only blame myself, and I am certainly no more authoritative an editor (often much less authoritative) than anyone else.
The alternative, though, is to start going down the route of editcountitis or verifiable expertise, neither of which is particularly attractive either. Or featured article style reviews (bring shrubberies) or the ludicrous pretence which is the Good Article system. All suck.
I suspect this is why stable versions has not happened yet...
Guy (JzG)