requests For Bureaucratship/Danny

I would like to help out whenever and wherever I can, and this seems like a good opportunity. I generally support sysophood for people, since I believe that having more sysops demystifies the idea of having sysops at all.

Support

1. Originally I boycotted voting on this new status because I was opposed to an additional level of hierarchy within Wikipedia, but since it is now established I might as give my support to the people I respect. -- Viajero 08:31, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
2. Secretlondon 08:43, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
3. David Gerard 09:41, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
4. Fredrik | talk 09:55, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
5. Johnleemk | Talk 09:58, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
6. --Woggly 12:19, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
7. Mais oui, d'accord! BCorr|Брайен 12:43, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
8. Tεxτurε 14:37, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
9. Of course. —No-One Jones 18:08, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
10. 172 18:59, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
11. blankfaze | •ï¿½• 19:09, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
12. Lst27 20:30, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
13. "I generally support sysophood for people, since I believe that having more sysops demystifies the idea of having sysops at all." I very strongly agree with this statement. --"DICK" CHENEY 20:36, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
14. john k 22:37, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
15. Merovingian✍Talk 23:10, Jun 21, 2004 (UTC)
16. Cecropia | Talk 00:22, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC) Support, based on Danny's clarification.
17. Angela. 00:33, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
18. older≠wiser 00:42, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
19. Warofdreams 13:24, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
20. Jwrosenzweig 15:49, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
21. Michael Snow 00:11, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
22. Kingturtle 01:55, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
23. Guanaco 01:56, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
24. James F. (talk) 03:37, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
25. KIZU 10:11, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Impolite. Sam [Spade] 18:11, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
2. VV 09:58, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC) More than impolite, downright abusive.

Comments

• Danny, I know you're a very long-time and active member of the community, and I agree with your general sentiment on more sysops are better than fewer. As a bureaucrat, would you tend to use guidelines more or less the way I outlined below, or what would be your policy? Thanks! -- Cecropia | Talk 14:28, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Cecropia, I would use the guidelines to a great degree as you outlined below. If someone had 80 percent of the vote, I would not hesitate to make that person a sysop. If, however, we were in a grey area (say 70-80 percent), I would discuss it with other bureaucrats first and hope that we could make a joint decision. In fact, that is one of the reasons that I would want to see more bureaucrats--to expand the discussion. At the same time, I am convinced that the role of the bureaucrat (and sysop) is nothing more than that of a servant of the community, committed to acting solely on its behalf. Danny 23:46, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)