[WikiEN-l] Recent goings-on

Thu Jun 2 21:30:58 UTC 2005

BJörn Lindqvist said:
>> I don't think the RFC process is especially onerous.  Just slap
>> together a few diffs showing what has been done and the actions you
>> have taken to try to resolve the problem and how the other party has
>> reacted (or not reacted).  Get your co-complainant, who has tried and
>> failed to resolve the same problem, to certify with you, along with
>> his own evidence.  Move
>
> Easier said than done. Locating your co-complainant is the tricky
> part. You just won't find many editors on Wikipedia who's first
> experience of the community was a banning. They tend to leave pretty
> quickly.
>
>> Successful arbitration cases have been brought against administrators,
>> some of them resulting in loss of administrator powers.  Usually in
>> such cases there has been consensus amongst other administrators that
>> a particular admin has gone too far.
>
> I think I remember one case in which the ArbCom revoked administrator
> privilegies from an admin. Some admin who had a name consisting of tree
> digits and was not 172. But you are talking in pluralis meaning that
> you have seen more than one instance of this happening. It would very
> good if you could describe the events so that we can see how far an
> admin actually can go before he or she loses his or hers
> privilegies.

There's a list of five cases of desysopping:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_de-adminship

> Set a precedence, formalize the rules, so that it doesn't
> seem like admins are VIP:s with diplomatic immunity.

The Everyking RFAr proved, if it needed to be, that admins are governed by
the same standards that apply to all editors.