[WikiEN-l] Another admin burnout

[Marc Riddell]

on 12/19/07 7:49 PM, Steve Bennett at stevagewp at gmail.com wrote:

> On 12/20/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Psyschim62 is blowing up.
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Physchim
>> 62/Proposed_decision#Request_for_clarification_.28before_case_closure.29
>> 
>> I think in retrospect there were signs earlier, but it's becoming more clear.
> 
on 12/19/07 7:49 PM, Steve Bennett at stevagewp at gmail.com wrote:

> Do you have a pointer to the actual issue? Maybe I'm not familiar
> enough with RfA's but even this
> 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Physchi
m6> 2
> doesn't seem to explain what the issue itself was.
> 
> Other than that, this looks like a fairly normal admin life cycle. He
> apparently joined the project in late 2004, became an admin some time
> after that, and leaves 3 years later claiming the project has been
> overtaken by trolls and has strayed from its original purpose. Is this
> unusual for anyone's involvement with virtually any internet project?

If you see Wikipedia as "any internet project" you will be blind to its
individual needs.
> 
> If there's a broader issue we should be discussing here, please tell
> us what it is.
> 
Perhaps the reasons really are that it has been "overtaken by trolls and has
strayed from its original purpose".

Marc Riddell