[Wikipedia-l] Admin status

Sat Jul 27 21:13:50 UTC 2002

Mav wrote:
>I see no need to block users like Zoe or Jheijmans or Enchanter etc. from
>editing the Main Page, copyediting and condensing policy pages (which is
>/badly/ needed for some of them BTW) or administratively moving articles.
>These users and many others have more than enough experience with our
>policies, naming conventions and such to be trusted to do semi-sensitive 
>work
>like that. Heck,  Zoe and Jheijmans already meet the requirements for being
>sysops; they are trusted members of the community, and they contribute to
>policy discussion (although trusted, I don't remember Enchanter 
>contributing
>to this list on a regular basis -- I may be wrong...).
You are absolutely right that I have never written to the list (though I 
have been reading your every word...).  So hi to everyone!

Personally I think the current situation where most users are blocked from 
editing the policy pages is OK.  For important policy pages like, say, NPOV 
or naming conventions, I don't think anyone (including administrators) 
should be making changes without discussing them first, either here on the 
list or the talk page.  By having only a limited number of administrators 
able to make the change, we make it more likely that policy changes and 
other changes will be discussed properly before being implemented.

If a non-administrator has a suggestion for a new or revised section on, 
say, a naming convention, they can post their suggestion on the talk page.  
When people have had time to make any comments an admin can then make the 
change in the subject page.  Where more substantial editing is needed, we 
could create a page like, say, "Proposed draft of neutral point of view" for 
people to work on before making the change to the official page.

It would be nice if the article moving feature were available to all users 
though.  I don't know much about how it currently works, but in theory it 
should be possible to implement it so that there is no danger of it deleting 
any articles or history. In that case it would be safe for anyone to use, as 
any mistakes could be reversed.

Tim (the Enchanter)

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