User talk:Pedro/Recall

Open to recall?

Being "open to recall" is an informal and voluntary undertaking where nobody but you gets to decide your recall conditions, so nobody gets to tell you to remove yourself from Category:Wikipedia administrators open to recall. However. If you will give up the tools because some of the named users on a short list ask you to, that's a personal matter between you and them; it has very little to do with recall by the community. I'm sure many, or indeed most, admins would give up the tools if several of their friends simultaneously asked them to; it just hasn't, AFAIK, occurred to the rest of them to refer to that as being "open to recall". I civilly advise you to either change your criteria to something more inclusive, or remove yourself from the category. Words should mean something, don't you agree? "Recall" in the wikipedia sense of the word may be elastic, but it's not a mere empty husk that can be filled with any old meaning. Bishonen | talk 16:46, 4 December 2011 (UTC).

Pedro, your standards look fine to me. It's quite reasonable for admins working in contentious areas to protect themselves from frivolous recall requests. My only concern about a list like this is that it can become outdated in time. Most editors come to the project, stick around for a year or two, and then move on to other things. So you might want to think forward to a few years down the line (assuming that you are still around yourself), and consider some mechanism of recall that could be initiated, even if many of the editors on the list were no longer active on the project. Of course, you could also just make a commitment to update the list from time to time, too. Up to you! --Elonka 17:18, 4 December 2011 (UTC)