2010/1/10 Charles Matthews <[email protected]>: > geni wrote: >> Well so far everything you have described would risk getting you >> blocked from wikipedia. >> >> Probably the most important thing to do is to contact >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects >> first. >> > I don't want to pull rank on this (much), but I have been through ArbCom > discussions of "role accounts". There was some merit in what I was > suggesting, namely single account with email to someone responsible. If > you want, I can run some wording for the User page past ArbCom members, > and see if any suggested "protocols" are sensible. I would have thought > admins would have better things to do than close down such an account > for technical infractions - bad behaviour would be another matter.
Arbcom don't make policy. Role accounts just look wrong to people who watch such things and a series of same name plus number accounts have been known to make admins paranoid. This is not an area I feel our general run of admins are very good at dealing with. For one example of things going wrong see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive574#University_of_Texas_at_Dallas_assignment > The supposed forum is [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classroom > coordination]], which doesn't appear that active. I think you should > take notice that projects involving minors (which covers most students > in secondary schools) are not necessarily in the same position as those > generally listed at [[Wikipedia:School and university projects]], which > seem almost entirely to be at college level. > > Charles > Wikipedia:School and university projects is active and at least means there is a fair chance projects can be given a once over and supported by people who understand wikipedia and such projects to at least some degree. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
