On 8/31/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I found the following Arbitration Committee finding earlier this year most heartening (and not just because I was involved):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Pedophilia_u...
Admins who got deadminned for doing jawdroppingly dumb things, despite having arguably followed written process all the way. Process is important - the right amount does keep us all from killing each other
- but not so important as to be an excuse for stupid.
The conter to that is that if people had followed policy (in this case done nothing but talk) we wouldn't have been in that mess in the first place. On the pluss side with luck it provides a solid case for not haveing a "never revert another admins actions" rule.