[WikiEN-l] Kils sysop status temporarily revoked

[Erik Moeller]

I have temporarily revoked Kils' sysop status on en:, someone with  
developer status on de: may want to do the same. Explanation:

In the last few days, a user named "Viking" has vandalized/downsized a  
couple of articles he considered "indecent" (especially the [[fisting]]  
article), threatened people not to question what he is doing if they  
didn't have "administrator status" and then left (there was a brief  
discussion of a possible ban). Kils subsequently deleted Viking's user and  
talk pages and explained it was an "experiment of his children".

I asked him for details, he responded and then *deleted his talk page*  
before I could read his response. I restored the talk page and there was  
the following response.

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 Eloquence: I confirm this - I do not think any had the quality of  
vandlism, otherwise I would have stepped in. We were concerned that a  
"handbook type" with direct instructions to certain practises on certain  
pages was endangering the reputation of wikipeia and of us as visible  
contributers and cooperators. A first thing many teachers and professors  
for example do, before they endorse or use a web based project in class or  
with students/parents, is to search for ugly content within. And there was  
some, and as we were supported by responses of colleagues with the right  
background it was beyond the rules of wikipedia - young vikings are often  
of very spontaneous mannors, I advised them to do things different, but  
then we are also very democratic. they plan to do it different now - we  
could have done everything anonymous, but we did not - from that you can  
deduct that we all are interested in communication and construction - we  
are all astonished how much time you spent in the wikipedia project  
(Anerkennung!) you seem to need only very little sleep - best greetings  
across the ocean (from the USA) from uwe kils - user Kils 18:50 31 May  
2003 (UTC)

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It seems quite clear that Uwe Kils shares Viking's standard of "decency"  
regarding Wikipedia articles and feels that material e.g. about specific  
sexual practices is inappropriate. In light of his actions, I do not trust  
him to be a sysop anymore.

In spite of my objections, this should normally go through discussion  
first before the status is revoked, but I am worried that Kils might  
delete more pages, and it seemed like an appropriate safety measure. I  
also wanted to allow others to take a look at his user talk page to have a  
track record, and this was not possible with him being a sysop, because  
then I could not protect the page or stop him from deleting it. If anyone  
feels that Kils must be a sysop again, please post.

Regards,

Erik