[WikiEN-l] You're magically made an admin. What do you do?

[Andrew Gray]

On 11/05/07, Gallagher Mark George
<m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:

> Towards the end of my adminship, I was removing improperly-placed tags
> at least as often as I was speedying articles.  Admins tend to know what
> they're doing, but get very lazy and instead rely on the judgment of users
> who *don't* know what they're doing but think they do because these
> chappies on the anti-vandalism IRC channel gave them the good oil.
>
> I remember one article about an American high school that was tagged
> for deletion on notability grounds.

My personal favourite is currently [[Edward the Elder]] - a
tenth-century King of Wessex, succeeded Alfred the Great. Someone
replaced the page with particularly nasty vandalism, defamatory claims
about someone entirely unrelated - a guy in the US called Jeremy, in
fact.

Somone promptly tagged it for deletion, and another person rolled in
and deleted it; all gone in ten minutes, without either of them
looking at the history or wondering why the page had such an
irrelevant title...

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk