Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections January 2006/Candidate statements/Filiocht: Difference between revisions

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Above, I say ''Being an admin gives me no rights that are not also extended to non-admins'': so, what is an admin, what is abuse of admin status, and how should it be handled?

As I see it, an admin is a user who has been given access to a set of bits of wiki functionality that other users cannot use. The chief components of this toolkit are the ability to protect, delete and deleteundelete pages and to block users. The deal is that these tools are handed over with the implicit, but clear, understanding that they be used for the benefit of the community and the project, not the individual.

The toolkit also carries with it a heightened responsibility to adhere to such basic tenets as Wikilove, assuming good faith, the carrying out of policy, both written and unwritten, the need for consensus for any actions that may be debatable under policy or require policy. In short, the admin needs to model the behaviours that the community and project require from all users if they are to prosper.