Wikinews:Water cooler/policy/archives/2020/April

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Changes in policy describing admins and their privileges

A user made a change to a Wikinews policy page WN:INTRO. I think this is an important matter and should be discussed by the community.

I also highly, highly recommend that it wait until after the global pandemic when everyone's nerves aren't so fried.

Change (since reverted): [1] Discussion: [https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_talk:Introduction#Non-hierarchical}

Darkfrog24 (talk) 15:54, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That is not a policy page. It does explain some things that involve policies. The change in question doesn't alter any of the meaning that was previously in place; it just adds some things that are also true.

No doubt we should all be careful not to let whatever tensions we feel in our lives overflow onto the project. I don't think that needs to be a problem. (Btw, the global pandemic may continue for the next two years or so.) --Pi zero (talk) 16:28, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed changes to privilege expiry policy

I have made two proposals which can be found at:

--Green Giant (talk) 03:28, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]