[WikiEN-l] Checkuser fiasco

[Kelly Martin]

On 10/19/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Look, I'm happy with the board appointing trusted people to use
> checkuser.  I don't  mind if this is delegated to arbcom.
>
> But I'm not happy at all about having a RFA-style beauty contest for
> people to use checkuser.  Nope.   This isn't how we do things
> associated with privacy.

The notion that consensus *alone* can determine who is entitled to
checkuser rights is laughable.  The effectiveness of RFA in culling
inappropriate candidates from admin rights lately has been quite poor;
I dread to think what the results would be of letting checkuser get
handed out this way

No, sorry, this simply won't do.

Kelly