[WikiEN-l] More Seigenthaler fallout

Thu Dec 15 08:16:59 UTC 2005

geni wrote:

>On 12/14/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 12/14/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>On 12/14/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>There are way too many admins who shouldn't be, then.
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>>>It isn't as if we have the luxery to say that.
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>>Just what do you mean by that?  There's no reason why we need to
>>continue to grant admin privileges to people who abuse them.
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>>Kelly
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>We don't have enough active admins. Roveing the ones we do have on any
>reasonable scale is not an option.
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>geni
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No big deal, remember? Deopping should be as easy as opping, IMO. 
Anyway, I think a lot of admins (including myself) have misused rollback 
at one time or another, or just misclicked (due to impulse?). I support 
hitting people who misuse rollback on the head with a cluestick, but 
unless the admin refuses to heed the advice, I'm not sure deopping would 
be the right thing. (Though it's always up to the community.) This is 
also why I think removing rolled back edits from the page history is a 
*bad thing*. Just because it's no longer in the article doesn't make a 
particular edit bad. In addition, as others have noted, we'll lose 
history of vandalism and disputes. (Although it would be funny to see a 
user talk littered with {{test5}}s but nothing in 
[[Special:Contributions]].)

John Lee
([[User:Johnleemk]])