[WikiEN-l] You're magically made an admin. What do you do?

[Ken Arromdee]

On Sat, 12 May 2007, David Gerard wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Tony_Sidaway
> 
> "This adminstrator has subverted the intent of VfD on numerous
> occasions." i.e., he didn't just count votes.

While administrators are not supposed to count votes, neither are they
supposed to discount them unnecessarily.  It's possible that the correct
result should be to keep the article even though counting the votes suggests 
otherwise.  After all, it isn't supposed to be a vote count; sometimes the 
correct result doesn't match the vote count.  But it's much less plausible 
when it's constantly being done by the same admin.  While not following a 
vote count is expected some of the time, someone who *consistently* fails to 
follow a vote count is doing something wrong.  And some of the examples seem 
rather egregious even as single examples;
[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of names for the human penis]] had
14 votes, only one of which was "keep".  He closed it as "no consensus".
The only way in which that had no consensus was that people wanted to get rid
of it and couldn't reach consensus on exactly what way to get rid of it.