[WikiEN-l] Removal of adminship...

[Kwan Ting Chan]

> >> So you're basically saying: The community is good enough to be called upon
> >> to express their trust initially, but they can never express a change of
> >> heart regarding that trust? Sounds weird.
> >>
> >>     
> > It's not a concept without precedent.  Lots of US judicial positions
> > work that way, for instance.
> >   
> The status quo in US politics may not be the *gold standard* we'd want 
> to model Wikipedia after.

Not being able to easily fire a judge (in this example) is actually a
quite common thing. The concept is that it goes towards the whole
judicial independence thing where a judge don't have to worry about
being fired for a correct but unpopular decision with the politician
etc. i.e. Not making decision based on popular-ism, but rather whether
the decision is right or not.

One can use the same line of argument regarding adminship. Namely that
an admin shouldn't have to worry about axe-grinders when carrying out a
decision.

KTC 

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