User:Fahrenheit451
Fahrenheit451 has been an active Wikipedia editor since March 3, 2005. This user has a career, owns a business, and has considerable media experience, including interviewing Jimmy Wales several times.
This user supports the fast track removal of admins who are abusive. All admins should be open to recall. Requests for Deadminship rarely succeed on Wikipedia. An admin who behaves like a Crank knows that an Arbitration Committee likely won't remove adminship. discussion
Some admins go so far to claim "community support" when they win a Request for Adminship. Such claims are not verifiable as Wikipedia currently has about 5.5 million registered editors. It is common for RfA to succeed with around 55 support votes. Dividing the support votes by the number of registered users quickly debunks the community support claim, which in this case would be 0.001% support and the turnout only slighly higher.
In this RfA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Jehochman] 34 out of the 74 support votes were from admins. Admins represent about 0.024% of the total number of registered Wikipedia editors. So, getting 45% of your support votes from admins could indicate an old boy network or elitist clique that has materialized on Wikipedia.
Interesting article on a formerly secret admin mailing list:[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/wikipedia_secret_mailing/]
My view on the future of Wikipedia, 25 January 2008
The model Wikipedia was based on was very effective in getting it established. However, this model is not effective in maintaining it.
When admins elect each other and form cliques, when admins can violate Wikipedia policy with impunity, and when editors are met with the possibility of article vandalism on a regular basis, the opportunity exists for Wikipedia to gradually decline. I think that is occuring.
Anyone who is ambitious enough to use it as the basis for an encyclopedia that has stricter edit protections and more specialized and restricted powers of administrators will have a sustainable online encyclopedia.
My current view on the future of Wikipedia, 1 February 2009
I think the concerns that I had one year ago are actively being addressed by the English Wikipedia community. Since then, administrator accountability has gotten ongoing attention and vandalism is being addressed with greater concern.
My current view on the future of Wikipedia, 24 May 2009
Any addressing of administrator issues has only been given lip service. Administrative abuses continue. Wikipedia is on the road to irrelevancy.
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PS: YES YOU'RE RIGHT HARRY POTTER USES A BROOM! (BUT GOOD MOPS ARE HARD TO FIND!!)
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Possibly useful links
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WQA Wikiquette Alerts]
[http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html]
[http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html]
[http://www.ccianet.org/artmanager/uploads/1/FairUseStudy-Sep12.pdf Fair Use provisions]
[http://www.freezoneamerica.org/Prometheus04/otTwo/preot2/law.htm Precedent link]
[http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Original_Gangsters]
Wikipedia:Administrators#Administrator_abuse
Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Opentask
[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate tool]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ALsi_john&diff=144018421&oldid=143765480]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AJehochman&diff=145841824&oldid=145838298 These are our enemies]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AMisou&diff=148615687&oldid=148601823]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FIncidents&diff=149011008&oldid=149010478 black pr from ja]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ATilman&diff=149042521&oldid=149011039 wpd has two stories on the same item]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freedom_Magazine&diff=prev&oldid=153100537 Is this person getting orders from a senior while working on wikipedia?]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FIdenics&diff=153986566&oldid=153887153 We're innocent]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FIdenics&diff=153959064&oldid=153957913 Paranoia strikes deep]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FIncidents&diff=154083698&oldid=154082276 unsubstantiated claim]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Eugene_Martin_Ingram Unanimous keep, but deleted anyway]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Scientology_organizations AfD for a link farm]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchangeslinked/User_talk:Justanother Watching for what purpose?]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AVariant_texts_in_Scientology_doctrine&diff=154407117&oldid=154404842 Oops]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AVariant_texts_in_Scientology_doctrine&diff=151511477&oldid=151382302 Freezone critic]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Leocomix&diff=prev&oldid=154661787 Curious revert]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AChrisO&diff=149007074&oldid=149003495 wpd spreading black pr]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AChrisO&diff=151571288&oldid=151516343 Spreading more black pr]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AOffice_of_Special_Affairs&diff=153828499&oldid=153602271 A dialogue]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ARookZERO&diff=154618781&oldid=154447735 badgering]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FIncidentArchive293&diff=155114224&oldid=155112722 mediation is rigamarole]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ALessHeard_vanU&diff=155265924&oldid=155041020 tattle taling]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ARookZERO&diff=157245902&oldid=156991598 getting rough]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AWikipediatrix&diff=157296505&oldid=157245444 The enemies list grows]
AfD proposed for a clearly notable group
Lessons learned to prevent mediation warring
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AShutterbug&diff=159079219&oldid=159038509 Not good faith]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ASterling_Management_Systems&diff=159509394&oldid=159498398 Vicious attack on myself and Jimmy Wales]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Community_sanction_noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=139793099 true]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Community_sanction_noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=139573447 makes sense]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Shutterbug/Archive2&diff=prev&oldid=147589813 an offer?]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free_Zone_%28Scientology%29&diff=prev&oldid=146834001 all linkspam? really?]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AJimbo_Wales&diff=159682558&oldid=159666517 strange]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AJehochman&diff=159709469&oldid=159709238 don't want to discuss it]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AJimbo_Wales&diff=159716542&oldid=159686445 I am we]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AShutterbug&diff=160298039&oldid=160294430 coaching]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AL._Ron_Hubbard&diff=160605704&oldid=160389902 bad faith and incivility]
Do they have anything better to do? No.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ARequests_for_adminship%2FJehochman&diff=163536366&oldid=163534341 the vote] and
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AProabivouac&diff=163545937&oldid=163292067 the threatening response]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AMakoshack&diff=161393514&oldid=159123022 contempt for mediation]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AMakoshack&diff=167529052&oldid=167528639 contempt for arbitration enforcement]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FNoah_Lottick&diff=168453363&oldid=168452390 merely following orders]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASteve_Dufour&diff=168463459&oldid=168458933 If I have to]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AMediation_Cabal%2FCases%2F2007-11-07_Sterling_Management_Systems&diff=169796422&oldid=169713010 disruptive comment]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AMediation_Cabal%2FCases%2F2007-11-07_Sterling_Management_Systems&diff=172643533&oldid=172585727 Incivilty]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2007-11-07_Sterling_Management_Systems#Comments_from_User:Misou more incivility]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AMediation_Cabal%2FCases%2F2007-11-07_Sterling_Management_Systems&diff=172797509&oldid=172796819 disruption]
Links for future work
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_fluoridation&diff=next&oldid=162516312]
Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/COFS
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