[WikiEN-l] Worthy admins? (was "The userbox fad")

[Ray Saintonge]

Chris Jenkinson wrote:

> jayjg wrote:
>
>> Here's an example of what I mean.  I noticed that a specific 
>> administrator,
>> in the last 12 hours, managed to get into a delete wheel war with 
>> another
>> admin, get himself blocked for 3RR, and then unblocked himself.  He then
>> unblocked an obvious troll, without informing the blocking admin, and
>> blocked another editor permanently, accusing him of being a 
>> sockpuppet, with
>> no evidence that I am aware of.  My curiousity piqued, I looked at his
>> recent edits, and discovered that *none* of his past 600 edits have 
>> been to
>> an article, but do find a comment he has posted today saying that 
>> Jimbo is
>> "too busy asking for money" to deal with Wikipedia issues.  I then do an
>> editcount, and discover that of his 8700 edits, only 1800 are to 
>> articles,
>> the *exact same number* of edits he has made to his User page.  I 
>> look at
>> his User page, and discover *86* user boxes on it.
>>
>> What is going on here?
>
>
> If you think he shouldn't be an admin, I invite you to file an RFAr 
> about it, rather than complaining to the mailing list, which does 
> nothing but create ill will amongst contributors. 

I didn't see that as complaining or whining.  Since Jay dd not mention 
names, I see his comments as representing a real example of a more 
general problem.  Your suggestion to put the matter into a bureaucratic 
meatgrinder could in theory solve the problem with that user,  but it's 
not going to address the bigger problem  that keeps recurring. with the 
big egos of some sysops.

Ec