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I've had a variation of this on my user page for a while. I could leave
it anywhere on Wikimedia or en.Wikipedia. I am really pissed to be in
an arbitration on issues that decent administratorship should have dealt
with 8-10 months ago. The repeated references to females of course will
doubtless be mocked. I just pray I can pull myself away from an
essentially time wasting and masochistic effort. I can do far more for
advancing the knowledge of the world by just rewriting articles of
interest to me and putting them on my own
carolmoorepedia.org or
something. (What a glorious concept!!)
====Is the real problem ineffective action by administrators?====
:Right now administrators refuse to stop POV editing, misuse of RS,
concerted attacks on BLPs, harassment (especially of clearly identified
females), tag-team editing, sockpuppetry that is obvious from clear
patterns of similar editing on the same articles using the same language
style/POVs, etc. etc. What good is it to have a policy on COI editing
or ''anything else'' if some administrators are terrified of editors who
threaten to try to take away their administrator rights? Or some are
too intimidated/confused by professional B.S. artists and/or those who
scream discrimination? Or if others are too nice a guy or too much of a
"good old boy" to enforce policies? Or if admins only enforce them on
editors perceived as "weak" politically but not those perceived as
"strong" politically? Where issues that should have been handled by
admins months ago have to go to Arbitration. And then you still will end
up with too many ineffective decisions that are either too wussy or too
harsh (and sometimes against the wrong individuals), all because they
were not dealt with effectively earlier by admins.
:Unless Wikipedia figures out how to have a few hundred truly
independent admins committed first and foremost to enforcing Wikipedia
policy through frequent short blocks which escalate for those who don't
get the point, the whole project is doomed. The bad editors continue to
drive out good and/or new ones, especially females who aren't willing to
enter into a field of combat.
:/''If the Foundation can't figure out how to set up some procedure and
or independent body to hire and train a few dozen (or hundred) tough and
fair administrators to do the dirty work that volunteer admins refuse to
take on, the Foundation might as well fold it's tent and hand the whole
project over to Citizenpedia. Also, make sure half or more of those paid
admins are women who won't play those good old boy games and will get
the job done.'' /