Hello,
I have a question regarding administrator privilege abuse: What mechanism exists to prevent administrators from blocking users with whom they disagree in a content dispute? AFAIK a report should be filed on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RFC/ADMIN#Use_of_administrator_privileges but a blocked user cannot do so before his block expires and for an indefinitely blocked user, it will never be possible using regular means. I don't think it's in the interest of Wikipedia to let administrators have a final say in a content dispute by blocking disagreeing parties for disruption (vaguely defined as posing a threat to the normal functioning of Wikipedia) or vandalism (which btw. requires them to assume bad faith as per WP:VANDAL).
Thank you for your comments
Other administrators. You shouldn't block an administrator who you're in disagreement with even if there's disruption or vandalism involved. Ask someone else to do it and if you're right they will do it. If you end up being blocked and can't respond to things on the wiki, you can email to this list or send a message to any individual admin by email.
Mgm
On 5/3/06, Raphael Wegmann raphael@psi.co.at wrote:
Hello,
I have a question regarding administrator privilege abuse: What mechanism exists to prevent administrators from blocking users with whom they disagree in a content dispute? AFAIK a report should be filed on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RFC/ADMIN#Use_of_administrator_privileges but a blocked user cannot do so before his block expires and for an indefinitely blocked user, it will never be possible using regular means. I don't think it's in the interest of Wikipedia to let administrators have a final say in a content dispute by blocking disagreeing parties for disruption (vaguely defined as posing a threat to the normal functioning of Wikipedia) or vandalism (which btw. requires them to assume bad faith as per WP:VANDAL).
Thank you for your comments
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Should such a thing happen you need to follow the dispute resolution procedures. Emails to arbitrators will get you in if you are blocked.
Fred
On May 3, 2006, at 1:30 PM, Raphael Wegmann wrote:
Hello,
I have a question regarding administrator privilege abuse: What mechanism exists to prevent administrators from blocking users with whom they disagree in a content dispute? AFAIK a report should be filed on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RFC/ ADMIN#Use_of_administrator_privileges but a blocked user cannot do so before his block expires and for an indefinitely blocked user, it will never be possible using regular means. I don't think it's in the interest of Wikipedia to let administrators have a final say in a content dispute by blocking disagreeing parties for disruption (vaguely defined as posing a threat to the normal functioning of Wikipedia) or vandalism (which btw. requires them to assume bad faith as per WP:VANDAL).
Thank you for your comments
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