QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 1st June 2010, 9:27pm)
Well,
one out of two ain't bad. Thanks, MZ.
Yeah, I'm cheering. Really, that deletion was stupid and vindictive. Didn't he look at "where used"? Herby is utterly unqualified to be an admin, unless we fix the adminship system so that all he can do is use a mop on uncontroversial stuff. He might screw up even that though.
I've been getting ideas, discussing adminship on enwiki-l. But that's for another day.
Greg, I fully understand why you'd not want to make any special agreements to secure an unblock at Wikiversity, because it appears you didn't do anything wrong. I can understand why you would expect some upstanding admin to unblock you on the sheer justice of it.
But I'm not an administrator, and if I become one, I'll be on probation, and my own view of adminship is not as becoming some kind of avenging angel. I can probably help you much better as an ordinary editor, and if ordinary editors realized the power they have and used it, admin abuse would be a thing of the past. But they don't, so abusive admins still have power.
Nevertheless, what I'd do even as an admin is the same as what I'd do -- and will eventually do if someone doesn't beat me to it -- as an ordinary editor, i.e., negotiate consensus. If I can do that, who actually unblocks doesn't matter, and that should be true for any administrative action. As a new editor there, though, I need to lay a foundation with the community. There are others in a position to directly unblock, and one may eventually come to that. If you have actually managed to alienate all the admins, well, that's hard to recover from. There are a lot of inactive admins on WV.
I very much appreciate it when an admin reading here notices a situation like that and does something about it. MZM was simple and clear. Yay!!!