[WikiEN-l] Requirements for Adminship

[Ray Saintonge]

Jossi Fresco wrote:

>>On Feb 19, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Rich Holton wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>>Are we editing the same Wikipedia? I have not seen such "swaggering"
>>>>and "abuse of power" but in exceptional cases.
>>>>
>>>>-- Jossi
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Without necessarily agreeing with you, I still have to ask: "And your
>>>point is...?"
>>>      
>>>
>From [[WP:LA]]
>
>There are 1,122 (as of February 19 2007) users with sysop rights  
>(active and otherwise), 814 of them active (as of January 18, 2007).
>
>How many of these admins, in your opinion, would fit in the category  
>of "power abusers", "hostile to editors", etc?
>
There is little benefit in turniong this into a numbers game.  It is 
enough to say that such admins do exist, and if they really are the 
exceptional cases their influence is out of all proportion to what it 
should be.

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