Recognition of content builders

Recognition of content builders

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Last edit: 11:05, 24 January 2010

Adding a parallel status of "senior editors" would give some recognition to the people who actually build content and not merely maintain it (as admins do). It makes perfect sense to request officially-recognised senior editors to mediate minor content disputes in articles they are not already involved in. If this form of dispute resolution fails for some article, there are existing dispute resolution measures to fall back on.

Speaking as a retired sysop on the English language Wikiepdia, I've seen many fellow admins get promoted for their ability to do the janitorial tasks more than editing. While blocking users and deleting trash is important and does require some level of community trust and responsibility, many sysops are far from the best volunteers Wikipedia has. For many, the very label and extra "powers" have somehow become a status symbol of sorts - it can get to their heads and some go on insane power trips.

So it seems that we are recognising these janitorial tasks and giving extra powers and titles, etc, to those doing routine fix-up jobs, but actual good editors, who often will have absolutely no interest in deleting images or dealing with vandals, are left with no official recognition. Makes perfect sense to me to recognise good editors and diminish the idea that sysops are the exemplary users.--Konstable 11:05, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Konstable11:05, 24 January 2010