[WikiEN-l] News agencies are not RSs

[Rjd0060]

"OTRS actions" (for lack of a better term) should always stand on their own
merits.  OTRS volunteers have no special authority to do anything that a
regular administrator doesn't have.  Thus, we do not make actions "per
OTRS".  In the final protection I did note the summary with a link to the
OTRS ticket in case people decided to ask about it.  It was for
informational purposes only.  But there was no "drama" before.  Only a few
edits and a few reverts (as well as the previous protections).

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Rjd0060
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Michel Vuijlsteke <wikipedia at zog.org>wrote:

> I don't see why they didn't indef-protect the entry with a reference to an
> OTRS ticket. That eventually happened, but only after much drama, and after
> branding a news agency "unreliable".
> Michel
>
> 2009/6/30 Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>
>
> > Can I ask what policy this was done under? While I generally approve
> > of the action here, it seems that the admins involved were not
> > entirely following the letter or really entirely the spirit of
> > Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. So how are they not
> > technically rouge admins?
> >
> > So shouldn't there, if practical to do so, a policy for this kind of
> > thing? At the very least that way the boundaries of what is and isn't
> > acceptable can be discussed.
> >
> > I'm also left wondering whether there are any other similar things
> > going on, either temporary activities, or extended ones; or whether
> > there have been in the past. If administrators do things, how is a
> > user supposed to know that they're doing it for a sensible reason,
> > rather than some less savoury purpose?
> >
> > --
> > -Ian Woollard
> >
> > "All the world's a stage... but you'll grow out of it eventually."
> >
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