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