[WikiEN-l] Requests for adminship reform

Sat Jun 25 07:10:35 UTC 2005

Yes, we had admins face disciplinary action before, but there's also a
large number of accusations that never even reach a stage of serious
discussion, because they ask for de-sysoping on a knee-jerk reaction -
merely for the admin disagreeing with them or for moving a page (which
anyone can do).

Arbitration should suffice.

--Mgm

On 6/25/05, Rebecca <misfitgirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/25/05, Chris Jenkinson <talrias at gmail.com> wrote:
> > An obvious flaw, so far, with this system, is that a potential
> > malicious user can go through the adminee period, get nominated
> > without a hitch, and then cause trouble. This is why a deadminship
> > procedure would need to be created - abuses of power should /not/ be
> > tolerated. Currently there are irrevocable actions admins can take -
> > these must either be fixed in code, or more appropriately, it made
> > absolutely clear that anyone who takes malicious actions as an admin
> > will face severe disciplinary action.
> 
> This is the case now. We've had three admins face disciplinary action
> over admin abuses before, all leading to de-sysopping, and more
> recently, one that was emergency de-sysopped after going on a deleting
> rampage. This sort of thing is specifically what the arbitration
> committee is for. There is no need to create an additional lynch mob
> so that a handful of users can settle scores with people who - they
> freely admit - have done nothing wrong, but they just don't like.
> 
> -- ambi
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