[WikiEN-l] Recent goings-on

[geni]

On 6/2/05, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think the RFC process is especially onerous.  Just slap together a
> > few diffs showing what has been done and the actions you have taken to try
> > to resolve the problem and how the other party has reacted (or not
> > reacted).  Get your co-complainant, who has tried and failed to resolve
> > the same problem, to certify with you, along with his own evidence.  Move
> 
> Easier said than done. Locating your co-complainant is the tricky
> part. You just won't find many editors on Wikipedia who's first
> experience of the community was a banning. They tend to leave pretty
> quickly.
> 
> > Successful arbitration cases have been brought against administrators,
> > some of them resulting in loss of administrator powers.  Usually in such
> > cases there has been consensus amongst other administrators that a
> > particular admin has gone too far.
> 
> I think I remember one case in which the ArbCom revoked administrator
> privilegies from an admin. Some admin who had a name consisting of
> tree digits and was not 172. But you are talking in pluralis meaning
> that you have seen more than one instance of this happening. It would
> very good if you could describe the events so that we can see how far
> an admin actually can go before he or she loses his or hers
> privilegies. Set a precedence, formalize the rules, so that it doesn't
> seem like admins are VIP:s with diplomatic immunity.
> 
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172 and Guanaco have both lost their adminship due to arbcom cases. a
full ist of admins who have lost thier adminship (for a number of
reasons) may be found at
[[Wikipedia:List_of_administrators#Former_Administrators]]

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geni