QUOTE(Heat @ Sat 9th May 2009, 3:47pm)
Ding-dong the witch is dead.
Not quite, as he hasn't been desysopped. What good is censuring somebody for outrageous editwarring going to do if you leave him with the basic tool which allows edit warriors to get away with edit warring without being summarily blocked for it (or else rescued immediately). Yes, admins can block admins, but they rarely do, as much drama ensues. If you're a protected admin, you admin friends will do it, even if you've been on the wrong end of previous sanctions.
In Jayjg case, he's been protected from (non-mistake) blocks by rescues from David Gerard, SlimVirgin, and.... Essjay. They couldn't let him stay blocked for even a few hours. I can't see the stink he made on backchannel, but nothing else accounts for this level of game-protection. He was an admin at the time (though not long), but had been weakened by the first of his many ArbCom disputes for edit-warring in Jewish-related articles. Gaming from the beginning. This goes back to 2005.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...ge=User%3AJayjg