[WikiEN-l] CheckUser access requests? Huh?

[NSLE (Wikipedia)]

Uhm, is it just me, or is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Checkuser_requestsa
very, very bad idea? I think it's fairly obvious why it probably
wasn't so
bright to make that an open, free-for-all page. Especially if the
community's not going to have any say and it'll just be the Arbs appointing
Checkusers, then what exactly is the use of that page? The arbs could have
easily just approached people and announce it. This will probably degenerate
into a farce - I already see at least one name on there who hasn't even been
contributing very long to this project, and isn't an admin.

NSLE