On 3/5/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
You're leaving because I dared use my l33t admin powers to delete in process an odious pretense at a dispute resolution page under the rules regarding the colour it assumed in its claim for legitimacy, *despite* a lynch mob feeling otherwise. How dare I!
You would not close and AFD you had been involved in. While I don't belive the issue has come up with RFC before it is not an unreasonable position that the same ruleset applies.
It was a lynch mob page.
Nyet. "lynch mob"s would generaly not be in favor of someone keeping their adminship.
It was only made an RFC to give it colour of legitimacy.
Nyet. It ended up at RFC because a few people thought that was where it should be rather than filling up most of [[WP:CN]].
Unfortunately, it failed even those rules and should have been killed yesterday. The wacky move of moving it to Essjay's userspace doesn't change that - uncertified RFCs are only kept in userspace at the subject's explicit request. If it's an RFC, it lives or dies like one.
It isn't an RFC though since it wasn't create as an RFC. The alturnative position gives people the option of people moveing stuff they don't like to an RFC subpage and then deleteing it after 2 days if no one notices the move.
Of course there is the third option of trying to define what is and is not an RFC through ways other than the process of it's creation but that brings up other issues.
Generaly if you wish to nomic your way out of a problem on wikipedia I would recomend copyright since it tends to have fewer side effects.
Of course, that's nothing compared to people denied a hanging party, as you say.
Again will point out that that straw poll did not support de-adminship.
Anyway essjay left and people had for most part lost interest. Letting the page rot (maybe locking it down first) woud have worked as well.