On 6/21/06, Selina . wikipediareview@gmail.com wrote:
None of these were appointed in any way by the community, they just seem to have been privileges handed out to friends as individuals see fit...
Now, I'm going to assume good faith in that you really *don't* know why this selection of people was chosen. Let's have a look. We have Jimbo (he gets most complaints, so fair enough), Brion (he could already do this, so fair enough), the 14 AC members (community appointed to a great degree) and Essjay (respected, bureaucrat, already has checkuser privileges).
Now, we cannot do this like an RFA election, as there is potentially sensitive information. Matching the Checkuser requirements seems logical to me. There's no reason why this couldn't potentially be expanded in the future. Let's see how the current team does first.