On Jan 3, 2008 10:13 PM, doc doc.wikipedia@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.
Polls are evil, but, whatever you think of the proposal, this one feels a little like an attempt to pull a fast one.
Doc
I agree with you fully, Doc. Indeed, six days is never sufficient. How long did we run the WP:ATT poll? Several weeks, for sure - and it was advertised on watchlist banners.
I have noticed that there is a trend happening here - modifications being made to policies without putting them on CENT and having discussion...then when someone finds the modifications and reverts it, being told, "no it's been like this for a long time, so therefore it's consensus." There seems to be a real push from some (but granted, not all) people to have their preferred versions, whether policy or practice, approved without full discussion.
Risker
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