[WikiEN-l] Ugly RFA developing

[George Herbert]

On 8/14/07, Adrian <aldebaer at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Phil Sandifer schrieb:
> > On Aug 14, 2007, at 6:26 AM, George Herbert wrote:
> >> (apparently) A google search finds skeletons in RFA candidate's
> >> closet.  Deleted as BLP (probably mistaken application of BLP, but
> >> perhaps legit NPA or privacy issue), restored, cleaned up, still there
> >> right now.
> >>
> >> [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Crockspot]]
> >>
> >> I don't know which side is more disturbing at the moment.
> >
> > I'm torn here. On the one hand, this is symptomatic of much larger
> > problems in RFA - the obsessiveness needed to Googlestalk an RFA
> > candidate is simply too far off the deep end. On the other hand,
> > Crockspot is a querrelous nutter who shouldn't be given adminship,
> > and plenty of !voters recognized that without needing to read his
> > racist trash. So while I think this is over the line, I also think it
> > makes a crappy test case because Crockspot was never going to make
> > admin.
> >
> > -Phil
> >
> Well, he has 70+ supports which surely didn't come out of nowhere. And
> since his '''on-wiki''' behaviour appears to be acceptable, there's no
> obvious '''on-wiki''' reason this RfA couldn't --or shouldn't, for that
> matter-- have passed - or why another RfA in several months wouldn't.
>
> Adrian

Yeah.  It looked to me like he would pass, prior to that question being posted.

It's true that bad cases make bad precedent, but...


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-george william herbert
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