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

Tue Jan 3 19:51:51 UTC 2006

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
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An RFAr would cause just as much or more ill will. I think it's fine to use
specific examples when talking about larger Wikipedia issues.