Dear Mr. Will Johnson, Three hurrays for the separations of powers, checks and balances and full accountability to oneself, others and the foundations of a civilized community.
You got my attention and my empathy. Virgilio A. P. Machado At 19:43 25-11-2010, you wrote: >In a message dated 11/25/2010 10:57:11 AM Pacific Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: > > > > It's a headache for the copyright team on en:WP because they have to > > figure out which came first. > > > >First there should be a presumption that established editors (I've been >in-project for seven years), do not do copyvios. > >Second there should be absolutely NO grant made to *admins* to police >copyvio content issues. None. Zero. Admins have no position from >which to make >a call that is any different from an established editor or reviewer. The >creeping rights of admins are just ridiculous. Admins have dozens of >"rights" that established editors do not, over content, and they shouldn't. > >It's an old drum that I keep beating. Admins keep granting each other more >rights, and soon all that we will have in-project will be admins. No >editors at all. > >All content issue rights, should be removed from admins. That's my >position. All of them. Every content issue right period. > >W _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
