Okay, I'll weigh in on this. It took me three hours to look through everything, but what the hey. I left Wikipedia because none of you would do jack shit about real abusive administrators and real abusive POV-pushing groups who twist and stretch policy in order to hurt others, but even I think this is over the top.
Did MONGO misuse his admin tools? I have to say yes. Did he do so in a way that was necessarily malicious? I don't necessarily think so. What I think MONGO screwed up on is in relation to conflict of interest.
I'd be much happier if Arbcom had given MONGO some simple terms - say, a requirement that he not use his admin powers in relation to any page he has edited in a certain time frame.
But then again, yesterday I saw a normal user try to report another editor for trolling (that is to say, making false edit summaries during an edit conflict) and immediately get piled upon by the other editor's friends, and now that they have been blocked for more than 3 days and had their talkpage locked by admins who turned out to be the other editor's friends, because when the admin friends started in their harassment campaign, the user flailed about in a fashion very similar to how MONGO did.
Parker
On 12/12/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/12/06, Puppy puppy@killerchihuahua.com wrote:
Is desysopping the answer? Is it appropriate to desysop, generally reserved for abuses of /admin/ functions, for incivility, which is an /editor/ action, and usually is addressed with either a caution or probation?
Guy suggests a month long enforced break, which seems reasonable to me.
I do think it's reasonable and expected to hold admins to a higher civility standard. This used to be consensus, has that changed? I hope not...
But in any case, the arbcom found that MONGO did abuse his admin functions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Seabhcan/Pro...
I'm completely ignorant to the case other than what I've read on the page, but it would seem to me that some of the support emails here are operating in an even greater information vacuum.
After reviewing the material there, I really do believe we're doing MONGO a favor although it might be too late in any case... There have been many "Sole defenders of the Wiki" who completely burned out when they realized that the community, in fact, would not let them get away with anything, such as RickK. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l