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Well Doug, I've just looked closer at your User Page and see that you're an admin. I will suggest that it would be an improvement to Wikipedia if admins are more clearly identified. An obvious way to do that would be with something like 'Admin:Dougweller' instead of 'User:Dougweller'. Or when an admin posts in their admin function, they simply state that they are admins. Consider how chaotic our society would be if police went up to people's doorsteps without letting them know that they are police. And then when the cop decides to slap handcuffs on the citizen, the standard reaction is, ""you could have told me you were a cop"". Actually it is my understanding that cops are required to identify themselves as such, when performing official actions.  "