Jimmy Wales wrote:
There are *NO* "role-accounts" on Wikipedia, and anyone who is using one to masquerade as if they are carrying out some official function is doing something very un-wiki indeed.
Let me add to this for emphasis -- creating new accounts such as "TheMediator" or anything of the sort is something that I will frown on mightily as well. If there's a policy proposal, then it should be proposed and discussed. There is zero need for a special account that would mislead people into thinking that there actually is already some sort of policy of this type.
I think it is *highly* unlikely that the "Mediator role account" is something that could achieve community consensus. It's just a stupid idea proposed by a user who has proven impossible to deal with.
But in any event, there's no need of the account to already exist to pretend to fulfill a role that doesn't exist and probably won't exist.
By all means, though, let's discuss it and find the merits in the proposal.
--Jimbo