Angela (beesley@gmail.com) [050626 09:45]:
Desysoppings usually appear in the bureaucrat log on meta, since this is where the steward interface is, and only stewards, not bureaucrats, can desysop users. This is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/rights However, in Ævar's case, he was desysopped by a developer, not a steward, presumably because it was an emergency and no stewards were on IRC at the time.
Yep. What happened was, Aevar's deletions were noticed, and the pattern was really weird, so someone popped onto #wikimedia-tech, and Tim deopped him pending finding out what was going on. Aevar showed up again a coupla days later, somewhat bemused at everyone's worry. Ops back. No ongoing problem.
- d.