[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] Desysopping procedure against waerth

Tue Jan 17 17:34:59 UTC 2006

I did make some mistakes but they were to finally get the process about 
sensible rules and guidelines on nl: going. They backfired. I requested 
to be desysopped:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions#User:Waerth

Waerth/Walter

>This is truly sad. I think we need Jimbo to declare that NL will have an arbcom to get things
>going. I would recommend that he appoint you as its first member. De-sysop indeed. Things must be
>very bad on nl if somebody I trust as much as I trust you gets desysoped there. 
>
>Maybe you should tell them that I and the board trust you so much that you have read access to the
>foundation PayPal account and can edit the foundation wiki. You have never abused those rights and
>are still very much so trusted. 
>
>Everybody on every wiki needs to know that rules *only* exist to serve our goal of creating and
>distributing the best encyclopedia in the world. They should *never* be used as weapons against
>people you happen to not like for whatever reason and they certainly do *not* exist for their own
>sake. That is in fact what the ignore all rules policy is all about. 
>
>-- mav
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>--- Walter van Kalken <walter at vankalken.net> wrote:
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>>A desysopping procedure against me has started on nl:
>>
>>A brilliant timing btw my sysopstatus will be taken away on my birthday. 
>>As I have said before. If I get desysopped something breaks in me. As I 
>>have always done a lot for the community. It is ironic that on nl: the 
>>trolls can stay, as they do not even get blocked! And the one who is 
>>constantly trying to keep things going looses his modstatus.
>>
>>I have tried after a year of discussing to finally get a blockpolicy 
>>going on nl: that allows blocks for more than 24 hours. 7 proposals have 
>>been made by 7 users. But no what do they want on nl: they want to 
>>discuss things further. Meanwhile trolls feast on nl: and multiple users 
>>have left already. Also an arbcom has been discussed for over a year. 
>>And everytime someone has a proposal they discuss further and further 
>>and further. NL: has become a discussionforum in which proposals are 
>>discussed, but never ever implemented. I tried to further it by warning 
>>people on their userpages that wikipedia is not a discussionforum. They 
>>responded with a desysoppingprocedure here: 
>>http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Afzetting_moderators
>>
>>This is the worst birthday gift after over 2 years of hard work. I 
>>defended nl.wikipedia a number of times over the radio as a 
>>presscontact. everyone said I had done a good job. I now feel stupid 
>>sorry for doing  such a good job. This community doesn't deserve people 
>>who are willing to work hard.
>>
>>Waerth/Walter
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