[WikiEN-l] We need a policy against vote-stacking

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> On 5/9/06, Steve Block <steve.block at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>> The only thing that isn't undoable as an admin is image deletion.  The
>> rest has become pretty much fixable.  Yes there are wheel warring
>> dangers and the like, but once you take an eventualist approach, it all
>> settles down a lot.
> 
> Err, not quite.  There are a number of other things that are
> "undoable" -- in the sense that once an admin does them, they can't be
> directly reversed -- leaking deleted revisions chief among them. 
> Whether this is a real problem is up for debate, of course; but it's
> worth pointing out that the question of admin trust is a bit more
> complicated than merely "will he go on an image deletion spree?"
> 

Indeed. If that was the only criteria that people looked at for RFA, I'd
have been made an admin on en: long ago - after all, I haven't deleted
everything on Commons yet.

The unfortunate thing is, we don't have a trust model. Short of people
writing down lists of people that they consider "problem users", it's
roughly "Do they sound like a nice person? Do I like their userpage? Do
I like their answers to the questions? Do I like their signature? Do
they agree with my idea of what Wikipedia is?"

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