ThomasV has written a bulk of nonsense. He is clearly lying when asserting that only a few admins are against his misuse of his dev privileges.
Some users have tried to desysop ThomasV because of his inacceptable and the project damaging behaviour in 2009:
http://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Wikisource:Administratoren&ol...
8 users were pro admin rights for Thomas V, 7 against. Please NOTE that NONE user has defended the IP decision but some have articulated that they are opposing. Here are 2 pro-admin votes:
Finanzer (our de WS 'crat): "was aber nicht heissen soll, dass ich Thomas' Verhalten gutheisse, im Gegenteil" (i.e. he has clearly said that ThomasV's behaviour was bad).
Dorades: "Was das eigentliche Problem, die Änderung von Bearbeitungsständen durch IPs, betrifft, stimme ich mit der Community überein und spreche mich dagegen aus." This means that in the eyes of Dorades the community were unanimously against the ThomasV IP-decision.
It was and is useless to argue with ThomasV. I see a strong consensus in the WS community that the WS and not ThomasV has to make the core decisions.
Klaus Graf