[WikiEN-l] someone after non-active admin accounts

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/5/11 Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would hope RFA is good enough to weed out people stupid enough to
>> respond to such things...
>
> Hey, you wanna hear a really stupid thing *we* could do? The exact
> same thing! We write emails to a bunch of inactive admins, pretending
> to be disgruntled wikipedia-haters asking for their accounts, and if
> they bite, we ban and de-admin them! It would be like a sting! Or
> entrapment! Or something! We'd be like the Dirty Harry/Lethal
> Weapon/Archetypal-amoral-movie-cop of the internet!
>
> Or not... whatever...

Yeah, that would be entrapment. I know of no Wikipedia policy banning
entrapment, but it might not be the best idea ever...