Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-22479560-20131217114600/@comment-3076045-20131222125134

In reply to some of the earlier comments regarding why noone thought of this before, I must say my piece here.

I agree, it is probably a good idea.

From a wiki philosophy POV though, I am a bit cautious here.

Ideally, we want issues to be solved by the community itself as much as possible.

Based on the idea you were saying, it is basically to make it easier for folks to have somewhere to go with problems/issues that they have.

I am in support of this.

I am dubious, though, about why it would need to be restricted to just Admins though.

As one of the admins whose talk page gets edited a lot for requests, a lot of the time it is simple requests. (I.e. references are out of whack, someone has put the wrong template, or someone is unsure how to do something, to give random actual examples).

Ideally, there is no reason why anyone couldn't answer these ones. (Provided they had a little bit of experience using the wiki, that is, in cases of templates or how to reference).

As i said earlier, my objections are largely philosophical ones - because I believe that ultimately, the only real difference between an admin (such as myself) and any other editor is that if there is a need to temporarily ban someone, I have the power to do so. Other than that, its because I am Grandpa Timeoin that I am often able to help.

So my comment would be why it would necessarily be only admins that can deal with these requests.

That said - possibly there are ones that require someone with a particular level of template coding experience - i.e. creation of new or complete templates. I'm not going to lie, if its css coding I'm way out of my depth there.