Since we start off with overkill, wouldn't it be easier to appoint admins based on resumes, personal interviews and obstacle course performance instead? And bureaucrats, having passed basic admin training, are selected for bureaucrat candidacy school and we take the top 10% of those?
Really, I think you're jumping at shadows. No one can point to even one admin account gained through some organized advocacy attempt, nor to any significant effects even as a result of this one "discovered" group. The point is there is no problem, and until there is... no solution is necessary
- particularly not of the drastic sort. Most of the "organized"
nationalism groups formed on-wiki and stay on-wiki, maybe you should fix that first.
Nathan
There are instances when the thumb has been on the scale, but that approach is not viable. It is far better to continue to develop as much sophistication as we can with respect to point of view and try to ensure opposing points of view are fairly expressed. To take the example of the CAMERA initiate, we need to ensure that the Palestinian and Arab point of view is fully and fairly expressed. That is far preferable to adopting a position of mistrust toward administrators.
Fred