[WikiEN-l] Indefinite ban problem

[Daniel R. Tobias]

People want examples of how "none of the thousand or so admins wants 
to unblock them" doesn't adequately describe the "community" ban 
process?  How about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/I
ncidents/Blu_Aardvark_and_Mistress_Selina_Kyle

Synopsis:  Linuxbeak unblocks Blu Aardvark and Mistress Selina Kyle.  
A whole page of drama-queen histrionics and hissy-fits erupts, with 
some prominent admins loudly storming away from Wikipedia in a huff 
(they were soon back), and people demanding that Linuxbeak apologize, 
admit to a grave error of judgment, and possibly be desysopped or 
debureaucratted.  The fact that Jimbo apparently supported 
Linuxbeak's action was dismissed as irrelevant.  Anybody who in any 
way supports the unblocking of these individuals is deemed a 
supporter of stalking, harrassing, anti-semitism, and other rotten 
stuff.  They're quickly reblocked.


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