On 6/17/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info> wrote:
The problem is that Wikipedia, for better or worse,
has an inquisitorial system, with all the dangers such a system presents. We need to limit
our investigations to harmful activities. Harmful activities cause harm, observable
trouble. An administrator who uses open proxies but does not engage in vandalism or
sockpuppetry is not producing observable trouble.
Fred
Fred, a banned user could cause a lot of trouble if he got elected to
ArbCom using open proxies and a concocted admin account, built up
easily by doing lots of vandalism reverting. There has to be some
minimal accountability with admins, in part because they can be
elected to these positions, and in part because they can cause big
problems even without these extra powers.
The concern with CW was in part the use of proxies, in part the low
level of content contribution, and in part his/her unwillingness to
explain, even by e-mail, why s/he was using open proxies. It's this
last point that has attracted a lot of the opposition on the RfA. All
in all, it added up to a worrying picture.