[WikiEN-l] Rollback, and now here comes instruction creep

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Jan 11, 2008 5:29 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> So throw up another poll about extending it to autoconfirmed - you are
> right as far as I can tell that it enjoys some support, but I doubt
> that the folks invested in the original poll or involved in the RfR
> granting process at this point will support it.
[snip]

A poll was thrown up at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_rollback/Vote
which covered this exactly.  Then someone replaced it with a similar
poll (wiping out about 200 votes in the process) which arguably
corrected some of the bias of the original poll. There were also
people editing comments on the page and other shenanigans. After it
got up to a dozen or so people it too was edit warred, and putting my
own vote in was a challenge due to edit conflicts.  It too was nuked
out after a while.. the replaced with a poll about polling.
Fortunately the page was protected before someone introduced a poll
about polls for polls.

> I think this whole thing could have been avoided if the common sense
> notion that polls over the holidays are a bad idea had occurred to the
> folks involved in setting it up. Two or three guys rushed it, and here
> we are. Still, I think the bureaucracy concerns can be largely allayed
> by either making it an autoconfirm right or allowing admins to just
> grant it - with no more process than a block, which is certainly a
> bigger deal.

Agreed. Although "admins to just grant it" has already resulted in
wheel wars. :(