[WikiEN-l] BADSITES vs RFA

[Slim Virgin]

On 5/30/07, Gallagher Mark George <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
> The most important thing for a Wikipedia
> administrator to understand is the Spirit of Wikipedia.  You don't get
> that cleaning up vandalism (or, as CVU fans describe it, "whacking
> vandals").  You get that cleaning up vandalism and copyediting and
> writing articles and discussing protection and discussing deletion
> and co-ordinating article cleanup efforts and ... there's all sorts of
> avenues to becoming a good contributor, but you need to have
> walked more than one of them to be a good admin.  At the moment,
> though, it's trivial to pass RfA even without anything remotely
> resembling Clue, and this not only provides us with poor admins,
> it also makes it possible for malicious users --- Trojan admins --- to
> gain access they shouldn't have.
>
The other reason the alleged Trojan admins like building up edits
fighting vandals is that it involves minimal talk-page interaction,
which means they leave less of a distinctive "voice," making it harder
to identify them.