QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Fri 5th March 2010, 10:39pm)
QUOTE(victim of censorship @ Fri 5th March 2010, 1:21pm)
I like to start a survey on who is the worst Wikipedian admin.
At a certain point, this becomes like debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. The array of admin abuses at Wikipedia is a never-ending source of wonder, a kaleidoscopic display of all that is venal and treacherous in human interaction. Once a year, with the DICK of Distinction awards, we attempt to take a sort of snapshot out of the continual flux of admin abuse, but we should not assume that we have captured the true essence of what can only be properly conceived as a truly transcendent pile of dog shit.
Indeed. If one focuses on the personal qualities that go into making an abusive admin and uses that as the metric, you are actually more likely to come up with the name of a not very well known admin than a truly notorious one.
Der Autobahnenfuehrer ("
Rschen7754"), who I encountered through a brief tiff three years ago, serves as an excellent case in point. Amongst the young wiki-dicky admins of Wikipedia, you are very unlikely to encounter anyone more
anal retentive,
ill-tempered,
combative,
controlling,
quick to assume bad faith,
unconsciously self-parodying, or inflexible (
as even his "on-wiki" friends admit) as is he. Indeed, on a Google search for "teenage mutant wiki admin", his userpage is
the number one hit. Still, I see no indication that he is that well-known on WP outside of the admin corps, and is probably not much better known here. The question is why.
The answer, as it turns out, is simple: he is doing practically nothing to live up to his rather considerable Hasten The Day! potential. Instead of engaging in ba-telle and general drama-whoring all over "the wiki" like Durova, he spends nearly all of his "on wiki" time and energies tending to his little walled garden on WP, i.e., the
"WikiProject U.S. Roads" and the road articles that they WP:OWN. As self-appointed and largely unchallenged Autobahnenfuehrer, he has drained the road articles of even what little color or controversy a road article might otherwise have. You rarely if ever read of kickbacks, rigged bidding, routing controversies, construction/repair delays, or appalling cost overruns. A brief paragraph on a dangerous curve is about as close as they ever get to controversy. Indeed, one of his gauleiters
has openly exulted in the fact that WP road articles are nearly completely devoid of any information that the general motoring public would find interesting or useful.
For every truly notorious abusive admin of WP, there must be at least three or four equally abusive but utterly uninteresting wiki-wonk admins not unlike Der Autobahnenfuehrer. He is truly one of the greyest of all the little grey men of WP. What a waste! At one time, I had such high hopes for the boy. (IMG:
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