>> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:07:03 -0600 (MDT) >> From: "Fred Bauder" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] VIP Treatment >> >>> why should they >>> bother >>> politely pointing someone to OTRS, much less spend time and effort trying >>> to be diplomatic themselves? >>> >>> Sxeptomaniac >> >> Because they are decent capable people, take pride in doing a good job, >> and are concerned about the accuracy and reputation of Wikipedia. >> >> Fred >> on 9/12/12 2:58 PM, Matthew Jacobs at [email protected] wrote: >> > Oh really? So why do we have to desysop admins? Were they "misusing their > tools" in a "decent capable" way? Was it part of "doing a good job"? Were > they desysopped for being "concerned about the accuracy and reputation of > Wikipedia"? > > I can understand if you think I'm overstating the problem, but I find it > ridiculous that you would deny the obvious: some people are drawn to > adminship for the wrong reasons, and some maybe even for the right reasons, > but choose to act on them in a short-sighted way. No RFA process, no matter > how good, will ever be able to fully weed out people who really shouldn't > be admins. The problem is, WP has no mechanism for dealing with those who > turn out to not exemplify what an administrator should be, but stop short > of actually breaking rules. > > Sxeptomaniac
Agreed. But how could such a mechanism be created given the existing structure of the Project? marc Riddell _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
