[WikiEN-l] re: An observation

Tue Jul 1 11:59:52 UTC 2003

Martin wrote in part:

> Thirdly, I should note that my sysop powers were the result of a fairly
informal
> decision by Ed Poor, rather than the general acclamation that has greeted
recent
> sysops. As such I feel somewhat lacking in democratic accountability! :)
While I wish
> to retain my deletion and undeletion powers solely for the purpose of
merging page
> histories or moving page titles, I would like to announce here that I will
no longer
> take any other sysop-restricted actions, until further notice. I hope you
can all trust
> me to keep my word on this matter.

I would say that the only reason there were not lots of messages seconding
your sysophood was because it was unnecesarry.

So for the record:

I strongly and enthusiastically support Martin as a sysop.  I fully trust
him to use all and any of his sysop abilities for the good of Wikipedia and
the Wikipedia community.

Regards

sannse