I would say that this feature should remain - they shouldn't be an admin at all if they get blocked and start using their powers irresponsibly. Because this kind of incident is rare and isolated, the steward response of dropping the sysop flag worked to stop it spreading further. IMO, this system works quite well.
On 08/08/06, Titoxd@Wikimedia titoxd.wikimedia@gmail.com wrote:
That already is true, at least one part. Admins are not allowed to protect, move, or delete pages if there's an outstanding block on the account, and they are not allowed to rollback while blocked either. However, the block/unblock feature was left to allow administrators to unblock themselves in case they found themselves on the receiving end of an AOL autoblock or something similar.
Titoxd.
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Wildrick Steele Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 3:39 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Emergency on Wiktionary
On 07/08/06, Sean Whitton sean@silentflame.com wrote:
According to IRC user Connel, there is a rogue admin loose on the English Wiktionary and several dangerous actions have been performed (main page deletion, open proxy unblocks etc.). A RfP has been up for several days and the admin has not been desysopped. I don't have any evidence of this right now and am trusting the user's words as a steward is needed *now*.
Thanks, Xy
-- -Xyrael ~ <xyr> sean@silentflame.com | xyrael.net
Evidence enough at
http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=... us&page=
With this in mind, I've been thinking whether it would be wise to have some kind of feature that disallows admins from unblocking themselves and while blocked not being able to perform admin actions.
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