[WikiEN-l] Abuse of admin powers by David Gerard and Snowspinner

Wed Jul 6 21:29:22 UTC 2005

Phil Sandifer wrote:
> I'll decline, but is "willfully misreading claims to construct straw  
> man arguments and thus have a position of alleged moral superiority"  in 
> the article? Because if not, it really should be.
> 
> As for your other complaint, Wikipedia policy pages are descriptive.  
> When we are faced with a new problem, we do not spend a month or more  
> working out a policy and then go to look if the problem is still  around 
> so we can fix it. Rather, we fix the problem, and if a  particular style 
> of solution to a particular style of problem becomes  regular, we might 
> get around to writing a policy page about it, but  we're more likely to 
> go watch TV.

I see no problem here. Someone with the username "Involved in trolling" 
made what appear to be good faith edits ( 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Involved_in_trolling 
), and was blocked without an explanation. I'm not bringing this up 
because it's against policy but because it doesn't make sense.