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Minor wording issue

Please may I suggest a minor word change for the remedy that states Alkiver is desysopped. I'm of personal belief that the words "stripped of his administrative privileges" is possibly a little heavy handed. How about something a little more neutral like "is to have his administrator privileges revoked". Just something for you to consider. Ryan Postlethwaite 15:25, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm not seeing even a smidgen of a difference in meaning between those two. Picaroon (t) 16:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Maybe it's just a UK thing then, being stripped of something here is quite an abrupt term, I wouldn't exactly say incivil, just not the politest way to put something across. If you say that his tools are revoked, it sounds a little more official and a nicer way to convey it. There's no change in the actual meaning, just the way it is said. Ryan Postlethwaite 16:13, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

"Stripped" doesn't have a negative connotation in the US... for example, it's actually the preferred term when an athlete loses a championship outside of the playing field. east.718 at 19:33, 10/25/2007

There are a couple of wordings used in prior ArbCom decisions that mean basically the same thing. Decisions before this year used to read "X is desysopped," which is still used in the heading, but arbitrator UninvitedCompany introduced use of the alternative wording "X's administrator privileges are revoked". (UninvitedCompany also uses the wording "Y's editing privileges are suspended for 1 year" instead of "Y is banned from Misplaced Pages for 1 year", but that has not caught on.) I doubt that Kirill was consciously suggesting in this decision that the wording be changed again. Personally, I don't care for "stripped," not so much because it is harsh but because it is incongruous in context. If a doctor is no longer allowed to practice medicine, the newspaper might report that he was "stripped of his license," but the regulatory decision certainly wouldn't put it that way.

We won't even get into the question of whether the wording should say "administrative privileges" or "administrator privileges." Newyorkbrad 20:25, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Yep, no deep meaning intended here; it was just the first wording to occur to me. Please feel free to reword it using better terminology. Kirill 22:45, 25 October 2007 (UTC)