[WikiEN-l] Analysis of Request for Adminship

[Philip Welch]

On Mar 31, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Kelly Martin wrote:

> Unfortunately, I don't have any better proxies for "will not abuse
> administrative privilege".  But I do think it would be a good idea to
> have admin selection be more deliberative and less of a popularity
> contest, as it is today.  But the best solutions to accomplish that
> all involve creating special "administrator selection committees" or
> similar such bodies, which will be roundly decried as anti-democratic
> and cabalistic by people who are more interested in Wikipedia as an
> social experiment.  And while this latter group is smaller than the
> group of people who are interested in Wikipedia as an encyclopedia,
> this smaller group is disproportionately represented amongst those who
> participate in community processes, thereby skewing "consensus" toward
> the "social experiment" point of view.
>
> I wish I had a solution to THAT problem.
>
> Kelly

Kelly, you seem to always ascribe bad faith to people for no reason  
other than the fact they disagree with you. I wish I had a solution  
to THAT problem.

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Philip L. Welch
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