[WikiEN-l] To: Jimmy Wales - Admin-driven death of Wikipedia

[Fred Bauder]

I think you will make a lot of trouble and accomplish nothing.

Fred

On May 30, 2006, at 1:39 AM, Molu wrote:

> If you are unpopular, then you are doing something wrong. Blocking  
> vandals pisses them off, but earns the support of real Wikipedians.  
> As you raise the userbox issue, if an admin is doing something that  
> the majority of the community does not support then he's doing the  
> wrong thing. If his actions are controversial within only a small  
> part of the community but actually is in accordance with policy,  
> then other wikipedians will come in to support and drown the trolls.
>
>   There should be a mechanism to impeach admins without going  
> through ArbCom. Apart from increasing accountability, the next time  
> trolls complain about admin abuse and corrupt ArbCom we can just  
> point to the mechanism and say what are you waiting for? If there  
> is some support in this list I may go ahead and start a proposal.  
> What do you think?
>
>   Molu
>
>
>     On Mon, 29 May 2006 22:11:32 +0100 (BST) Nick Boalch wrote:
>
>   <snip>
>
>> I do. One can do things without being unpleasant that nevertheless  
>> make
>> you unpopular. Look at the administrators who have been vilified
>> for attempting in all good faith to deal with the userbox problem.
>>
>
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>
>
>> N
>>
>
>
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