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.
I didn't see that as complaining or whining. Since Jay dd not mention
names, I see his comments as representing a real example of a more
general problem. Your suggestion to put the matter into a bureaucratic
meatgrinder could in theory solve the problem with that user, but it's
not going to address the bigger problem that keeps recurring. with the
big egos of some sysops.
Ec