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

[Chris Picone]

(A bit off topic) That also reminds me of someone claiming an
11th-century King was nn because it only had 20000 Google hits.

On 5/10/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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