Re: [WikiEN-l] declining numbers of EN wiki admins Matt Jacobs

2010-05-30 Thread Charles Matthews
Michael Peel wrote: We block our precious new users at the drop of a hat, but an admin has to do something pretty damned horrific to even consider removing their status, and even then it takes months. This depends on what you define as 'pretty damned horrific. I'd say that it's

Re: [WikiEN-l] declining numbers of EN wiki admins Matt Jacobs

2010-05-29 Thread c h
IMHO, etc... The fundamental problem is the difficulty in *removing* SysOp, which *makes* it a big deal. If it really was no big deal, RfA wouldn't need to be such an ordeal; if a user is competent, reasonably experienced and no DRAMA, we should +SysOp them (AGF). If they fuck up, remove

Re: [WikiEN-l] declining numbers of EN wiki admins Matt Jacobs

2010-05-29 Thread AGK
On 28 May 2010, at 18:13, c h c...@live.co.uk wrote: Imagine if it worked more like blocking - if an admin fucks up, remove their SysOp and have a chat about it. Hi, I noticed that you speedy-deleted some files that do not appear to meet the CSD criteria; your SysOp staus has been