On 6/28/06, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The case is that if someone is 'trusted'
it's likely he will be an admin.
In theory. In practice, there are a lot of people who are trustworthy
enough to get rollback, Special:Patrol rights, the right to edit some
extra pages (i.e., add a third possible level of protection), and
similar tweaks, but who wouldn't necessarily be trusted to have the
effectively permanent right to, e.g., block people indefinitely. An
intermediate group would be especially valuable on enwiki, where
admins have to step really grossly out of line to be accountable for
their actions (some wikis have a reconfirmation scheme that makes
admins more accountable to the general populace of the wiki, for good
or for bad).