[WikiEN-l] Analysis of Request for Adminship

[charles matthews]

"David Alexander Russell" wrote

> Perhaps if Arbcom was more willing to
> desysop admins who annoy the community, that would solve the problem.

We are certainly willing to de-sysop those who annoy us.  Not the same thing 
of course.  But I think it would be a bad thing if admins went in fear of 
vocal minorities, who claim on occasion to speak for 'the community'.

I suspect that as time goes on a small proportion of admins will have their 
mops and buckets retired.  This currently only happens in egregious cases of 
forfeit of confidence.  The admin group is now very large.  There is 
probably 1% or so who attract attention for their _recurrent_ questionable 
use of the powers.  Mistakes are made, more widely than that, but it's part 
of the ArbCom's mission to be rather sparing in the use of its powers, and 
honest errors are part of life in a volunteer organisation.

Charles