QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Sat 2nd January 2010, 3:29am)
Perhaps we could draw up a shortlist for the WP:DICK awards.
Apparently, there's a script running under an account called
Rick BotÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
that maintains a page called
Wikipedia:List of administrator hopefuls (T-H-L-K-D), though this isn't specifically mentioned on the Rick Bot user page. If I understand this correctly, any time a user places the "{{Template:User wikipedia/Administrator someday}}" userbox on his/her user page, the page gets added to
Category:Wikipedia administrator hopefuls and this script adds the user to the list, and also checks for users who have had "successful" RfA's and places them in a separate part of the list - in the third (last) section. (Since the last section of the list has nobody in it, presumably one of the first things
all newly-minted admins do is remove that "would like to be an admin someday" template from their user pages.)
Anyway, there aren't really a lot of familiar names on that list. I recognized
PrometheanÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
from a recent Malleus-related dust-up, and
Moe EpsilonÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
, and of course the inevitable
RazorflameÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
. I also remember
DendodgeÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
, who was one of those who ran afoul of Mr. Friday's "oppose all minors" rule on RfA voting, and a couple others look sort of familiar... All in all, though, nobody really leaps out. That probably just means that the vast majority of wannabe admins have finally twigged to the "head-down, shut up, avoid controversy" route to WP adminship.