[Wikipedia-l] Re: Sysop nomination

[James D. Forrester]

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On Saturday, 14th June, 2003, Erik Moeller wrote:

> Karl-

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> > Perhaps it's just the title ("sysop") I don't like.  I would agree with
> > something called "advanced editor" or "senior editor", though.
> 
> That would be highly misleading. Sysops are *not* editors, they are not  
> responsible for moderating content,

Agreed. And the semantics of the word are apparent from the explanations
already available on the Wikipedia; changing it because people can get confused
would set a precedent for leading the Wikipedia into the ground with name
changes - this is, after all, English, the language with (perhaps?) the widest
vocabulary of all. Why stop with 'sysop', when we could change other words,
such as 'developer' - doesn't this give connotations of people developing
articles to you?

> they merely deal with vandalism and carry out the requests of the users
> (e.g. votes for deletion).

Indeed. I think, given that they 'operate' the anti-vandalism 'system', we
should concatenate the two terms, so that they should be called, err, 'system
operators'. Oh, wait...

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James D. Forrester
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