I'm fairly sympathetic to the idea of separating out features to be
doled out on a finer grain level, but many oppose it because it is
creating different shades, and thereby different classes, of users,
which is something Wikipedia has never been about. As mentioned in
other threads, this leads to "collecting privileges" like medals or
awards, when the spirit of Wikipedia has been to treat adminship as
even "no big deal."
A reminder - the primary reason for admin status was because of page
deletion, and that's where the "trusted user" idea came from.
On 6/30/05, Michael Turley <michael.turley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Rollback is *ideally suited* for reverting vandalism. Perhaps it is
equally suited for edit warring, but if it were *more* suited for edit
warring than its intended purpose, I'm pretty sure it would have been
written out of the software by now.
Um, but because rollback is given only to trusted users right now,
this is not a problem.
Even for admins, they are discouraged from using rollback for issues
related to legitimate content issues. Rollback should be used for
fighting vandalism and trolling, and not as a standard part of an
editor's toolbox.
-User:Fuzheado