Just a few "interesting" items in the past, that I'd like to point out.
First,
Mike's RfA. Most people said "
of course he should have admin powers!!", but some pissants
objected--including, amusingly enough, Risker. Then Anthere swoops in and forces the end of the debate.
Then, a
few examples of disputes or other nastiness somehow involving Mike.
That suicide threat was especially "amusing"--Alison took action, whilst the mighty Mike chose to do nothing, until Alison called him. On the phone. The rest of the AN/I nerds did nothing but squabble.
(Why was a photo of Mike a
candidate for a Featured Picture?
Repeatedly??
Is he so magnificent to behold, or was this simply an attempt to asskiss?)
After looking at a lot of mentions of him in the WP database, I have to say that he was invoked in an endless number of disputes, mostly involving copyright/fair use or legal threats. But I saw very little evidence that he actually acted on very many of those issues. I can't count the number of "Has anybody called Mike Godwin?" comments, with little or no evidence they actually called him, nor that he did anything......
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