[WikiEN-l] RFA idea...

[Wily D]

Allowing admins to sysop other editors is an enormous centralisation
of power.  It'd probably rival the block as the biggest power admins
possess.  And make the role even more political and even less enforcer
of community decisions.

Cheers
WilyD

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Jon <scream at datascreamer.com> wrote:
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> Colleagues,
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>
> As some of you already know, I've undergone an RFA recently.  Thats ok.
>  No matter the result, I try to vote on some RFA's whenever I ask for
> the community do discuss me.
>
> On the same token, I try to vote on some AFDs (or close some) whenever I
> submit an AFD.
>
> As I read some of the RFAs ongoing, I discovered a trend.  So I looked
> into the recent historical RFA votes. (Lets not get to wrapped around
> vote=!vote, for simplicity of this proposal/idea, I'll call all
> comments, discussions... votes)
>
> I have discovered what appears to be a trend in clique mentality and
> power centralization.  Also, I have discovered some crazy oppositions,
> for example "I view self noms a prima facia evidence of power hunger."
> This is among the craziest I've seen.  Not that the editor is crazy, but
> the oppose is.
>
>
> Here is my suggested solution:
>
> Allow editors (those who have not already undergone RFA, desysopped
> under a cloud, and desysopped by Arbitration) to sysop after 2500 edits
> and 6 months on the project without any recent behavior related blocks.
>  Permit the crats or admins to grant and take away adminship.  If this
> idea has some support on the mailing list (with any suggested
> alterations) I think I might put up a policy page as I have done on
> IPBLOCKEXEMPT for discussion.
>
> The advantages of such a system would eliminate power centralization,
> clique mentality, and some of these outrageous opposes.
>
> Everyone here is an academic.  We are building en encyclopedia.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
> - --
> Best,
> Jon
>
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