"Thomas Dalton" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > 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.
If I had known that when I saw it...there *was* an org-named account in a category about wikipedians interested in herbalism, and either it's gone or out of the category, so I couldn't tell you if there was actually only one person behind it. There was another one dedicated to a search engine that had some peer-to-peer capability that I did not understand -- didn't find it, because I don't remember the name of it. I don't remember where to look, either. (Maybe I will after I volume-level my tracks for CJSR). Contacts were being made on the talk page, so for all I know it is out of commission under "Wikipedia is not a social networking site" (I am sure you could fool a lot of people on that one, and not, as it happens, me). _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
