Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-01-31/Dispatches

Inline queries
This is a very good start: I left some inline queries to be resolved. Once a sample is added (including a free image), it looks almost ready to go. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 23:18, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I have tried to link and reword. You may want to see what I did (or attempted to do).  Spencer T♦C 01:31, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Excellent. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 02:33, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Wording

 * "There is no head ITN administrator, and lack of administrative help has sometimes been an issue at ITN."

I'm uncomfortable with the choice of words in this sentence: it implies that this activity is in need of someone with the Admin bit to run it. Not having an Admin bit does not mean one is unqualified to be a leader on Wikipedia. Perhaps this should be reworded to say:


 * "There is no organized group managing ITN, and lack of a coordinator has sometimes been an issue at ITN."

(Or maybe "no formal group managing".) -- llywrch (talk) 18:38, 6 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Hm...before I was an admin, there were not really issues...we had articles ready with a consensus that were just sitting at WP:ITN/C and there were errors on the template that weren't being fixed. In your suggestion, if the coordinator was a non-admin, that wouldn't really help any of the above situations if there aren't any admins around to make the changes. At one point, I recall users having to post at WP:AN for help requests.  Spencer T♦C 22:09, 6 February 2009 (UTC)