[WikiEN-l] Recent goings-on

[JAY JG]

>From: BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com>

> > 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.

I've seen it in a number of cases; sometimes the admins lost their powers 
temporarly, sometimes permanently, sometimes they had other sanctions not 
involving admin powers.

>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.

Bu the rules *are* formalized, and the precedents *have* been set, and it 
doesn't seem like admins are "VIPs with diplomatic immunity" except to a 
small number of editors who are typically trolls or cranks.

Jay.