Meanwhile, in Oceania:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=325262411I like how Manning rewrites history: "For the record, ArbCom did not officially desysop him. He admin bit was temporarily removed for the duration of the case (a standard procedure whever an admin is a central subject of a case)."
For the record, that is not standard procedure - Piotrus was actually involved in a similar situation last year and his adminship was not removed, a point that he cited early in this debacle. There have been countless cases of admins in the center of controversies whose tools were not immediately yanked away at the start of an investigation - the most recent being the Law/TU case where three Arbcom members (Casliber, John V and Luke) were cited as having advance knowledge of the Law/TU charade, but none of them lost their tools while the investigation was underway.
Nor was the bit "temporarily removed for the duration" - he was immediately listed on the page of desysopped admins, which never cited his lack of tools was "temporary."
It should also be pointed out that adminship was removed from Piotrus (1) without due process or any advance consultation with him regarding these charges, (2) without any evidence that he abused adminship, and (3) in the first edit of this case, which gave the immediate - and blatantly incorrect - impression that he was guilty of something.
PS This case is
still dragging on! (IMG:
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