On 9/19/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
See, this is the bit you've noticeably failed to convince anyone else of the need for.
Let's try asking a different question:
What is the imminent danger to the encyclopedia or its core policies of Phil keeping his ops?
If he continues to use them we have an admin acting not as a janitor but as part of the executive. Users have can have no real idea how he well use those powers. Thus he will be disruptive. He's already deleted a load of stuff without giving a reason we could probably do without that happening again.
Process has a tendency to exist for a reason. If an admin is not prepared to find out what that reason is then they should not be ignoring the process because they are very likely to make mistakes. Wikipedia is not anarchy. and admin who isn't going to bother with process is out of control of pretty much everyone. An admin who is out of control is a problem.