[WikiEN-l] Analysis of Request for Adminship

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

jayjg wrote:
> On 3/31/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam at vyznev.net> wrote:
> 
>>Steve Bennett wrote:
>>
>>>On 3/31/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam at vyznev.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>sock.  The six months or so between the two events served not only to
>>>>familiarize me with Wikipedia, but also to provide other users with some
>>>>confidence that I wasn't going to go on a vandalism spree as soon as I
>>>>got my admin buttons.
>>>
>>>The chance that anyone will go on a "vandalism spree" with admin
>>>rights is vanishingly small. And if they did, they can be  quickly
>>>desysopped before they've done any real damage (as I understand it).
>>>Is this really what the whole RfA charade is about? Protecting
>>>ourselves against users with 1500 edits who might suddenly,
>>>inexplicably turn into vandals the instant they're given admin rights?
>>>Sounds fishy to me.
>>
>>Well, no, the part about going on a vandalism spree was hyperbole.  It's
>>more about protecting ourselves against users who might use their admin
>>povers for more subtle undesirable things, such as POV pushing, or for
>>ends incompatible with the project (like the folks who think the best
>>thing about Wikipedia are the userboxes), or who might simply use them
>>carelessly or thoughtlessly, say, by rangeblocking all of Europe.
> 
> 
> 
> There are people who are working towards getting several userids up to admin
> status, doing uncontroverisal editing in areas they don't care about, so
> that they can then use that status to enforce their views in areas which are
> truly of concern to them.  This has been advertised and discussed on
> off-Wikipedia fora.
> 

Nod. Hence we don't just promote anyone who asks and fits the criteria
as set out by the letter of the policy.

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