On 8/14/07, Adrian aldebaer@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...