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(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Desysopping
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 11:01 AM
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
2009/2/11 Charlotte Webb
<charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com>om>:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Patton 123
<pattonabc(a)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_overhaul>doesn'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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