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:I will pose another RfC (reworded) either sometime this week or this coming weekend (whenever I get the time needed) as it has been a bit over 7 years since the last one and some clarity on some cases would probably be beneficial. In the meantime, I won't touch anymore cases. Does that sound OK, GMG? --[[User:TheSandDoctor|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">The</span><span style="color:#009933; font-weight:bold;">SandDoctor</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:TheSandDoctor|<span style="color:#009933;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 15:12, 10 September 2019 (UTC) |
:I will pose another RfC (reworded) either sometime this week or this coming weekend (whenever I get the time needed) as it has been a bit over 7 years since the last one and some clarity on some cases would probably be beneficial. In the meantime, I won't touch anymore cases. Does that sound OK, GMG? --[[User:TheSandDoctor|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">The</span><span style="color:#009933; font-weight:bold;">SandDoctor</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:TheSandDoctor|<span style="color:#009933;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 15:12, 10 September 2019 (UTC) |
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::What you post the RFC let me know so I can oppose it, as I consider what you're doing actively damaging, with no obvious benefit. Since these editors are blocked, removing permissions has no actual impact in terms of their ability to edit Wikipedia. What it {{em|does}} do is generate an automatic email to the user whose rights you're removing, which at best is annoying to the blocked editor and makes them feel "I left, but they're still hassling me!", and at worst agitates someone to the extent that they go back to disrupting Wikipedia. ‑ [[User:Iridescent|Iridescent]] 15:39, 10 September 2019 (UTC) |
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Removal of rollback
Hello SandDoctor, I'm posting here because you're listed in Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to grant rollback requests and were active recently. I originally accepted rollback permissions because I thought they would be useful. However, it turns out I haven't been using them very much at all, so there is no reason for me to have them. Would you mind removing them? – Teratix ₵ 23:55, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
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Done. If you ever feel you would have a use for it in the future, you can request them on my talk page or at WP:PERM/RB. --TheSandDoctor Talk 00:35, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
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Was there a consensus I missed somewhere regarding changes to WP:INDEFRIGHTS? I don't presume to understand the detailed rationale for why we made that policy to begin with, but surely there is one by someone who has dedicated more thought to the subject than I have. GMGtalk 13:00, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
- Hello GreenMeansGo, thank you for reaching out. WP:INDEFRIGHTS was not something I was aware of off-hand and is not a policy nor a guideline. The majority I modified were either socks (or masters), locked, and/or banned. Rights don’t make much sense there/in those cases, considering that those instances signify a loss of community trust, which is mostly in line with what was said at the RfC. It is also worth noting that a good chunk have been blocked for years as a result of the above conditions. To a much lesser degree, these also bloat statistics of how many users have a specific user right (which I think would logically infer "who can use it & has the position of trust to actively use it").
- I will pose another RfC (reworded) either sometime this week or this coming weekend (whenever I get the time needed) as it has been a bit over 7 years since the last one and some clarity on some cases would probably be beneficial. In the meantime, I won't touch anymore cases. Does that sound OK, GMG? --TheSandDoctor Talk 15:12, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
- What you post the RFC let me know so I can oppose it, as I consider what you're doing actively damaging, with no obvious benefit. Since these editors are blocked, removing permissions has no actual impact in terms of their ability to edit Wikipedia. What it does do is generate an automatic email to the user whose rights you're removing, which at best is annoying to the blocked editor and makes them feel "I left, but they're still hassling me!", and at worst agitates someone to the extent that they go back to disrupting Wikipedia. ‑ Iridescent 15:39, 10 September 2019 (UTC)