[WikiEN-l] Desysoping

Sat Feb 19 10:09:43 UTC 2005

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 03:41:41 -0600, Jack Lutz <jack-lutz at comcast.net> wrote:
> How is one to call for a sysop have their privileges removed for blocking? RfC, the first step, states that "at least two people need to show that they tried to resolve a dispute with this user and have failed." I'm not sure my complaint applies. It is that sysop Ta bu shi da yu blocked user NSM88 in violation of the blocking policy. This may be called "resolved" (I'm not sure) because NSM88 has been subsequently unblocked(?). But regardless, I consider TBSDY's actions to be an abuse of the blocking policy and would like to move for his administrator privileges to be removed.
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> I see ArbCom has rejected a number of cases for not going through RfC. How am I to do this under RfC's terms?
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> Dispute resolution against sysops is currently very, very slim. It should be easier to lose administrator privileges--and these are privileges--than to gain them. I cannot find any information on the consequences of out-of-policy blocks, and Blocking_policy's coverage of ethics consists only of "users should not block those with whom they are currently engaged in conflict." Does that cover personal attacks or threats? Is a sysop permitted to declare text of a user with whom they are in conflict a threat and summarily block them? Yes, I'm talking about TBSDY and User:SS-88 in that case.
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> Originally posted to Wikipedia-l, repost here after suitability complaint.
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> [[w:User:119]]

If you and another user have a dispute over an administrator's
actions, file it at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment#Use_of_administrator_privileges.

--Slowking Man