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Andrew Gray wrote:
A solution with a major pitfall. Danny handles a lot of work that needs doing - dealing with complaints, mainly, and tidying up related problems, many of which require admin rights. We've only just surmounted a several-month backlog of these issues thanks to remarkable volunteer effort*; we don't have the available manpower to take the only person paid to do it consistently away.
There has to be something wrong. It's not as if the complaints hotline has suddenly appeared - complaints have been getting handled successfully for months without so much as a talkpage complaint. However in this case, it was either an error of judgement on Danny's part (hey, I'm trying to AGF here), in which case he should acknowledge his mistake and list the article on Afd, or a contempt for the Wikipedia community (remember those three Keep Afds?) which is much more worrying.
Given what you've said it would obviously be better for Danny to still perform admin actions, but if it's a choice between an OTRS backlog and Danny thinking he can do what he wants and to hell with everyone else, I'm sorry but OTRS doesn't win.
Cynical