User:Davodd/sandbox

My collection of re-usable codes:

August 2, 2005

Abuse of Admin powers
Hello. After having read your posts on the Watercooler, may I suggest a few things?
 * Admin abuse is a serious offense. If you believe that an admin is abusing his or her powers, it may be more effective to address this issue on the Administrators page, since more admins read changes to that page more often than they read the Watercooler. There you can:
 * under the Admin action required portion, ask for an admin action to be reverted by another admin.
 * start a Requests for de-adminship vote to remove the person's admin status.


 * Disputes with admins. Being human, Wikinews admins will make mistakes. It may be more fruitful if you use their User talk:Xxxxx page to address an issue before going to the community for resolution. This may:
 * allow an admin to justify his or her actions, citing wikiproject policy.
 * additionally it may provide a more speedy resolution to your problem, and/or;
 * avoid hurting feelings/causing unneeded animosity in the community, and/or;
 * show the community that you took a constructive or collaborative approach to resolve an issue before resulting to a more drastic action. It may improve your credibility among folks who don't know know you well by helping you not appear to be rash in your actions if and when you ask the community for disciplinary action.

Other than that, thanks for volunteering to make sure all administrators do follow the rules and do not abuse their powers. -- Davodd | Talk 15:56, 23 July 2005 (UTC)