[WikiEN-l] Admins who abuse their powers

Mon Feb 14 02:23:56 UTC 2005

David, that wasn't the case here. The admin looking after the vote
explained that a "delete and redirect" or "merge" vote would count as
keep. The subsequent vote to delete was clear, as were the comments.
Only two editors voted to redirect. Most felt that no matter what
anyone tried to do with this title, it would always be a target for
anti-Semitic content, particularly as the expression is used largely
by neo-Nazi followers of a psychologist with some odd ideas about
Jews; hence the Stormfront interest in it. In addition, the vote
closed only a few days ago. This was an admin simply trying to ignore
community consensus, and misusing his admin powers to do it; yet there
is no way of censoring him short of RfC, mediation, arbitration.

Sarah

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:49:09 +1100, David Gerard
<fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> In practice, you'll see a lot of deletion votes that say "there could be a
> good article about this but this isn't it and can't be made into it." So
> in practice, an article may well be deleted and new text with the same name
> created there.