[Wikipedia-l] references, admin request

[Axel Boldt]

--- tarquin <tarquin at planetunreal.com> wrote:
> Matt M. wrote:

> >Would someone also please explain what responsibilities come with
> >this?

> delete junk pages, keep the flow of Votes For Deletion in check
> (that's a pain in the ****, I don't do that much), keep an eye on 
> vandals (be suspicious of IPs and new names, basically, and diff 
> their edits. sad way to phrase it, but true. On the plus side, I 
> get *very* pleasant surprises when I see all the great material 
> people add). 

I'd prefer if we kept the function of "sysop" separate from the above
described function of "vandalism protection". While vandalism
protection clearly requires sysop privileges,  not every sysop is
required to engage in vandalism protection. Otherwise, we can't
complain if many people don't want to be sysops. 

> mediate edit wars if you've the stomach for it

Edit war mediation seems to be unrelated to sysop status.

In my mind, the only responsibilities that come with sysophood are to
follow the policies related to deleting and protecting pages and
blocking users, especially not to use those features in content fights.
And don't use the direct SQL database search if you don't know what
you're doing.

Axel

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