On 10/09/06, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Admins are not controlled on the Dutch Wikipedia. At best there is room for censuring them. Control means that the community enforces behaviour of admins. When people insist that people do things in a certain way, they have to appreciate that admins are volunteers. When this urge of control becomes too much people can and do decide not to be an admin anymore and consequently all the control the community thought it had is lost.
For comparison, on en:wp -
On en:wp, there was a perception for a long time that admins were impossible to remove even if they were widely thought to have gone off the rails. Then in early 2006 a bunch of admins got de-adminned by the Arbitration Committee after Jimbo asked the AC to look into the matter in question:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Pedophilia_u...
So on en:wp, you can get de-adminned if the Arbitration Committee considers you have gone off the rails in a way that will be damaging to the encyclopedia project (encyclopedia or community).
The most recent case was someone who'd been in lots of trouble but had kept their sysop bit because they'd never abused their admin powers as such; but when they said elsewhere they would, their admin status was taken away immediately. So upsetting people and being a [[m:dick]] won't get your sysop powers taken away; abusing the powers is the only likely cause.
This may change later if it needs to. But it seems workable for now.
- d.