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

Thu Jan 5 04:11:34 UTC 2006

> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of jayjg

> It's not at all hard to be come an admin, and Wikipedia is 
> currently creating a new admin a day.  If I wanted to, I 
> could create a sockpuppet account, use it for 20 minutes a 
> day, and within 6 months have it to admin status.  I already 
> know of one banned edtior who was very close to succeeding at 
> this (he was caught via other means), and I know of another 
> problem editor who is currently preparing a sockpuppet 
> (actually his third) for an adminship he will certainly 
> receive (unless he is exposed first).

Presumably the thing to do would be to accept the good edits as a bonus and
then expose him or her if an RfA emerged.

Peter (Skyring)