Carcharoth: In fact we do have quite a few mailing list admins around. These include: Pierre Abbat, Brion VIBBER, Robert Merkel, Manning Bartlett, Vicki Rosenzweig, Bryan Derksen, Taw, AxelBoldt, The Cunctator, Magnus Manske, Tim Starling, and several others I've neglected to mention. As far as I remember they do not seem to have done anything that would violate the community's trust.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Wed, 2/11/09, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote: From: Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Desysopping To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 11:01 AM
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/2/11 Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com:
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Patton 123
pattonabc@gmail.com wrote:
I know a de-admining process is proposed practically every other
day, but this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EVula/opining/RfA_overhauldoesn't appear
to have had much discussion. What do you think about it?
Personally I think
it's a good idea, the only draw back being new accounts
abusing it.
If the numbers really matter so much, the simplest and fairest approach would be to a reconfirmation poll, where anyone can raise concerns but "voting" is limited to those who participated
previously
in the user's successful RFA. Sure there may still be sockpuppets
or
meatpuppets, etc. for or against the user in the reconfirmation shin-dig, but only if they were already present during the first RFA. If we are only looking at the net change in approval rating within the same audience, they would not likely have a pivotal impact.
That doesn't work for admins that have been around a while - most of the people that contributed to their RFA will have left the project.
And that tells us what? That they were trusted at one stage and might or might not be now. Someone should bring up a list of the really old admins (in terms of RfA) and how many people commented at their RFA and how many of those people are still around. Are there any "mailing list" admins still around (in the very old days, admins were given the bit based on a mailing list discussion)? Of course, many of these old admins are themselves inactive now.
Carcharoth
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