2009/5/21 Carcharoth <[email protected]>: > 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
I did say "usually". Also, not that that page says all those accounts should be indefinitely blocked. You aren't allowed to actually *use* a role account, but they are allowed to exist to make contacting a group easier in some cases. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
