User:Tannin and User:Kosebamse left, in large part because of Wik's extremely aggressive behavior (continued reverts on many pages: he now has a list of pages he reverts daily to be in compliance with the arbitration ruling of not reverting the same page more than three times a day; he also calls many users "morons" on his user page in clear violation of Wikiquette).
Tannin and Kosebamse were both great and highly productive users. I don't want to compare them against Wik, and I have nothing against Wik personally, but if he can't learn to cooperate and keeps driving valued contributors away, he has to go, period. In fact I suspect that he is *trying* to get himself banned to play the victim.
Wik is currently in arbitration again. I urge the AC to speed up their negotiations on this matter as every single day increases the risk of losing more people. The least severe punishment I would find acceptable is to forbid Wik from reverting edits entirely for a substantial amount of time. If he has to revert something, he can try to convince someone else to do it. At this point I would not rule out a temporary ban, however.
My gut feeling is that the arbitrators will be too lenient again. I have to say that if they cannot solve this problem, I must consider the arbitration process broken, and will strive for a complete reform. I respect all of the arbitrators, of course, but I believe so far this process has been far too slow and ineffective. Even Jimbo was faster and less lenient.
Regardless of any AC reforms, I definitely think that we need an acting body which can say things like - "Wik, take these insults down or you will be banned" - "Wik, justify your edits on the discussion page X before you revert again, or you will be banned" - "Wik, because of your behavior, you may not edit article Y for the next week" *quickly*. Such decisions can be the result of a poll among sysops, a committee, individual appointed users, I don't care. But we definitely need something that *works* before we lose more people and reputation. I know we have quite a few hardcore anarchists, but as [[Wikipedia is not]] states, we are not a vehicle for testing anarchism. We are an encyclopedia and a community, and we need to develop realistic and effective ways of dealing with problem users.
Regards,
Erik