[WikiEN-l] Saying no to new unreferenced BLPs

[WJhonson at aol.com]

<<In a message dated 4/2/2009 5:18:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
carcharothwp at googlemail.com writes:

Will,  look at the example I provided earlier in this thread.
Established editors  and admins were blindly reverting vandalism and
leaving an article in a  state of previous vandalism. How do you begin
to address that  problem?>>
 
You don't address it by allowing any admin who got their badge knowing next  
to nothing about NOR (as many don't) do remove the right of established users  
who have been in-project ten times longer than they.  I will never, not  
ever, agree to giving admins extra powers.  They already have several  powers they 
should not have in my opinion.  The idea behind admins, imho,  was supposed 
to be that they are helpful janitors clearning up messes, not theat  they were 
thought police enforcing the boundary line with clubs.
 
If we want to create new powers, then we need perhaps new categories of  
user.  For those users who do not want to be police, but are quite willing  to 
enhance the content of the project, we should create a parallel track, not a  
subordinate one.  No matter what anyone states, if a reviewer's right can  be 
removed at the whim (yes whim) of any admin, then reviewers are subordinate  to 
admins.  They should not be.
 
Will Johnson
 
 
 
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