Wikipedia:Desysopping

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Working on this - will tag it when initial proposal is complete. Rob Church Talk 22:11, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

This is a proposed policy which, it is hoped, will change the way in which administrator permissions are revoked on the wiki.

Contents 1 Introduction & Rationale 1.1 Thoughts on administrators 1.1.1 "No big deal" 1.1.2 Wheel wars 1.1.3 Administrator abuse 2 Proposals 2.1 Proposal Alpha 2.1.1 Additional thoughts 2.1.2 Technical changes

[edit] Introduction & Rationale

[edit] Thoughts on administrators

[edit] "No big deal"

This should be no big deal. - Jimbo Wales

The process of granting adminship is largely done through community consensus, via our Wikipedia:Requests for adminship page. Upon consensus for a user's adminship arising, a bureaucrat will promote the user to an administrator, which gives them the ability to use the delete, block, protect and rollback features; and the reverse features.

• Adminship is granted on the basis of community trust
• Most people who've been around long enough are given administrator rights as a matter of course
• There are no standard criteria nor prerequisites for becoming an administrator
• It is reasonable to assume that some unsuitable users become administrators

[edit] Wheel wars

[edit] Administrator abuse

[edit] Proposals

[edit] Proposal Alpha

[edit] Additional thoughts

[edit] Technical changes