On 3/29/07, NSLE (Wikipedia) nsle.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Checkuser_reque...
First, let's fix this link... http://tinyurl.com/yq72lb
What I want to know is why they don't just open up checkuser to more admins? Anybody who is trusted with tools that allow him to make pages go away (including the main page) and keep anybody they want from editing would not be trusted with checkuser. Or is it a matter of the technical knowledge needed to properly interpret checkuser results?
Then again, admins have, or should have, enough knowledge about networking to know what IP ranges to block to get rid of a troublesome troll+socks but minimize the effect on innocent editors.