[WikiEN-l] Worthy admins? (was "The userbox fad")

Tue Jan 3 19:50:34 UTC 2006

On 1/3/06, Chris Jenkinson <chris at starglade.org> wrote:
>
> jayjg wrote:
> > Here's an example of what I mean.  I noticed that a specific
> administrator,
> > in the last 12 hours, managed to get into a delete wheel war with
> another
> > admin, get himself blocked for 3RR, and then unblocked himself.  He then
> > unblocked an obvious troll, without informing the blocking admin, and
> > blocked another editor permanently, accusing him of being a sockpuppet,
> with
> > no evidence that I am aware of.  My curiousity piqued, I looked at his
> > recent edits, and discovered that *none* of his past 600 edits have been
> to
> > an article, but do find a comment he has posted today saying that Jimbo
> is
> > "too busy asking for money" to deal with Wikipedia issues.  I then do an
> > editcount, and discover that of his 8700 edits, only 1800 are to
> articles,
> > the *exact same number* of edits he has made to his User page.  I look
> at
> > his User page, and discover *86* user boxes on it.
> >
> > What is going on here?
>
> If you think he shouldn't be an admin, I invite you to file an RFAr
> about it, rather than complaining to the mailing list, which does
> nothing but create ill will amongst contributors.

Chris, the list *is* the place to raise discuss these issues; characterizing
this as "complaining" or "whining" is far more likely to engender ill-will
than raising the issues in the first place.

Jay.