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encyclopedia and this is the shop floor. Do you think anyone who visits, say, St. Peter's, while admiring, say, the stonework, would think the authorities in the 12th century should have suspended the chief stone mason from work for saying something nasty, or think the person who judges between the stone mason and the guy carting away the rubble should be someone who has expressed a hostile attitude towards skilled workers?
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This isn't an attempt to build an ideal society. We are building an encyclopedia here and the reader does not give a flying duck about what goes on behind the scenes. We are constrained by the legal and social limits of 2015, but as I have often said, we are not here to sing
Kumbaya but to build an
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This shows that they understand that this is an encyclopedia. Encyclopedias are written by content creators, and the supervisors and managers should be content creators. In order to create content, especially GA/FA content, an editor will show that they:
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The candidate must have helped get at least one article up to featured article status, or at least two articles to good article status. This is intended to look at their content creation ability, not their ability to review articles and make suggestions.
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We don't ask non-pilots to supervise the Air Force, for non-police to supervise the cops, for non-businessmen to supervise businesses. We shouldn't ask non-content creators to supervise writers.
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as of July 30, 2015, I completely endorse
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The purpose of admins should be to keep the riff-raff away from the content creators.
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The purpose of admins should be to keep the riff-raff away from the content creators.
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