My personal two cents on WS:User:Birgitte Arco is that she is a
responsible and valuable member of the community generally, and in large
measure the soul of Wikisource (tortured, fragmented or otherwise). I
was disturbed to hear about questioning of her ulterior motives, and
having been involved with Checkuser issues for Wikisource myself, in my
experience she acted positively and appropriately.
From my perspective, I would hate to see damage done to
the projects
"for want of a nail." The kingdom should not be lost; we
should find a
way to either grant status on an interim basis or otherwise adjust the
guidelines. The vandals have tools, so should we. We must act to
defend ourselves - even Wikisource - and not let the primary goal of
promoting the projects fall flat in the face of rather arcane
administrative details (not that Checkuser isn't important - to the
contrary - but it shouldn't be more important than the project itself).
-BradPatrick
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When I have needed a checkuser in the past I have had
to go through third parties on IRC because no
available steward felt comfortable fulfilling my
request directly. And that makes it hard on me when
my blocks are questioned and I am accused having
ulterior motives (this was from outside the project).
I feel in my case I alerted and consulted with other
administrators and people outside of Wikisource enough
to feel confident these accusations cannot taken
seriously. However, administrators of small projects
are being put in the position of deciding between
protecting the project legally or from vandalism or
else protecting their reputations from accustions of
blocking people on unconfirmed suspicions. If I
hadn't been trusted by someone who was trusted by
stewards, I would have been put in a very nasty
postition. If things continue as they are, sooner or
later some one on some project is going to be stripped
of adminship because they did what they needed to do
to protect the project, and didn't think to cover
themselves as well as I did.
Birgitte SB
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