[WikiEN-l] someone after non-active admin accounts

[Carcharoth]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/5/21 Jay Litwyn <brewhaha at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>:
>> Nothing is to do here. Adminships, last time I checked, are already subject
>> to a time-out under admins open to recall. I do not think it matters whether
>> it's three months, twelve, or fifty months. If that's the length of your
>> term, then it does not matter if you go into a coma due to a bad batch of
>> homebrew: You're still an admin. The subject is whether it is ever proper to
>> hand over accounts. Maybe it's proper to hand an account over to your wife
>> or secretary; probably common practice. I think there are some
>> organizational accounts around; they're clearly identified as such. I saw
>> one that had a specific scope in botanical medicine.
>
> The English Wikipedia has never had a policy of desysopping inactive
> admins whether they are open to recall or not (which far from all
> admins are). Adminship is for life unless the account is compromised,
> you do something seriously wrong or you resign. I don't know if there
> is a specific written policy against handing over account, but I doubt
> the community would accept such an action, especially for an admin
> account. It certainly isn't common practice. Role accounts are usually
> banned on sight. They used to be allowed for certain things, but went
> out of fashion years ago.

Not strictly true, but they are very limited in what they are used
for. Mainly for contact purposes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_contact_role_accounts

Carcharoth