On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/5/21 Jay Litwyn <[email protected]>: >> Nothing is to do here. Adminships, last time I checked, are already subject >> to a time-out under admins open to recall. I do not think it matters whether >> it's three months, twelve, or fifty months. If that's the length of your >> term, then it does not matter if you go into a coma due to a bad batch of >> homebrew: You're still an admin. The subject is whether it is ever proper to >> hand over accounts. Maybe it's proper to hand an account over to your wife >> or secretary; probably common practice. I think there are some >> organizational accounts around; they're clearly identified as such. I saw >> one that had a specific scope in botanical medicine. > > The English Wikipedia has never had a policy of desysopping inactive > admins whether they are open to recall or not (which far from all > admins are). Adminship is for life unless the account is compromised, > you do something seriously wrong or you resign. I don't know if there > is a specific written policy against handing over account, but I doubt > the community would accept such an action, especially for an admin > account. It certainly isn't common practice. Role accounts are usually > banned on sight. They used to be allowed for certain things, but went > out of fashion years ago.
Not strictly true, but they are very limited in what they are used for. Mainly for contact purposes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_contact_role_accounts Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
