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Arbitration motion regarding Argentine History February 2015

Original discussion

New trainee clerk

Original announcement

Arbitration motion: Dreadstar desysopped

Original announcement

Good outcome. Totally unexceptable behaviour. Bring on the next one. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 18:10, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Hmm I think you mean "unacceptable". I think he had had enough, and decided upon something similar to "death by admin". DS if you're out there I wish you all the best, although we never crossed paths. Lugnuts, is there any reason you want less admins? Just curious really... --Mrjulesd (talk) 18:25, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

I understand he exploded over defending me. (People die, and we fight over hidden text.) I take the blame. - I am on a voluntary 1RR and try to stick to two comments, - If a few more people did that, we would need fewer admins. How about a rule like that for certain topics, instead of sanctions which come too late anyway? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:01, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Hmm I think you mean "fewer" not less... :D No, I just want to weed out the bad ones. Anyone remember Dangerous Panda? No, me neither. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 07:08, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Unexceptable: "When a statement or question cannot be contradicted with the word 'except'". Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:59, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

I am still trying to understand why anyone would walk the gauntlet to become an admin. I could see myself quietly working away at some of our backlogs, but I certainly wouldn't go through that in order to be able to help out. --Guy Macon (talk) 20:49, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

@Hawkeye hah hah. @Guy is RfA that bad? I think you'd probably get through. So if nobody likes you here, I would just think nothing had changed. In fact maybe I'll try, and fail like WP:NOTYET or WP:NOTEVER hah --Mrjulesd (talk) 21:15, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Last year we had two editors quit for good after a failed RfA, but none so far this year. About a third of desysopped admins quit. Dreadstar and Wifione make two so far this year. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:58, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

The sad part is that I am pretty sure that I could pass an RfA with flying colors by doing the following:

1. Stop participating in any conversation related to policy or user behavior.
2. Spend 50% of my time building high-quality content on obscure pages that pretty much nobody edits.
3. Spend the other 50% of my time welcoming new users, fixing typos, reformatting references and other useful but noncontroversial activities that keep the edit counter rapidly incrementing.
4. If anyone disagrees with any of my edits for any reason, abandon that page forever and pick another.
5. Continue this pattern for over a year.

In other words, stop doing anything that resembles the tasks that administrators are needed for.

My motto would be You can soar with the eagles if you want to, but those of us who run with the weasels never get sucked into jet engines." --Guy Macon (talk) 08:26, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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Someone needs to reblock MarkBernstein (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)} Guy (Help!) 23:22, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

 Clerk note: moved from noticeboard by Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 00:08, 2 April 2015 (UTC).

Given [1], why is JzG talking instead of acting? NE Ent 00:13, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

It's not always wise for a given admin to act, depending on what definition of "involved" prevails during a given week. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 02:36, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Reblocked for 26 days, roughly the original duration.—Kww(talk) 02:50, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

2015 Checkuser and Oversight appointments: Candidates appointed

Original announcement

Well done to those appointed, and good luck. --Dweller (talk) 10:07, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Ditto. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:43, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Looks like a good group! The cream always rises. Swarm ^{we ♥ our hive} 17:52, 31 March 2015 (UTC)