[WikiEN-l] A six-day roll-back poll?

[Andrew Gray]

On 04/01/2008, doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Old hands will remember the perennial proposal to grant non-admins
> rollback facilities. We polled on this for 6 months in 2006, 500 people
> voiced an opinion and we got no consensus.
>
> Well, it's back
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non_administrator_rollback
>
> Another day, another poll. But what worries me here is that the
> advocates have opened a poll for 6 days in the holidays and intend that
> should determine the mind of the community. It ends on Sunday, and they
> are already declaring vicrory with only 49 supports.

Interesting indeed.

I didn't even know there *was* polling - I saw it being discussed on
IRC the other day and got the impression that adopting rollback had
been decided on at some point already, and I just hadn't heard about
it.

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