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Posted by: Mike R

Has such a list been compiled?

Posted by: thekohser

Yes, it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_administrators_open_to_recall.

Posted by: Jon Awbrey

See also

• Wikipediots who say they believe in "consensus" until "consensus" goes against them
• Wikipediots who say they follow WP:YNI (You Name It) until WP:YNI goes against them
• I think you see the pattern here …

Jon

Posted by: Apathetic

there is also Admins who claimed to be open to recall until someone wanted to recall them, so they changed their recall criteria to be so strict that they ultimately became impossible to achieve

Posted by: Malleus

There should also be a list of admins who promised to be open to recall at their RfAs, but just never got around to it somehow.

Posted by: Zoloft

I propose we merely refer to them as 'elonkated.'

Posted by: Jon Awbrey

To use it in a sentence —

• Many politicians say they support term limits — until they get in office — then they want their terms elonkated.

Jon

Posted by: CharlotteWebb

The lead-off batter here surely would be Navou a.k.a. Mercury a.k.a. var. al. nom.—or need I re-tell that story?

Times like these I wish Rootology's project was still up and running. I really should see about getting an account over at wikitruth.info, or perhap$ $tarting my own BAD$ITE.

Posted by: Jon Awbrey

Yes, because ArbComics is not ludicrous enough.

Jon

Posted by: EricBarbour

Snappy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_administrators_open_to_recall is a laff-riot. And a good example of WP's misgovernanace.

Look at some of the names on the list.

1. Elonka...well, you know all about that thing.....
2. Herostratus, notorious pedophile POV-pusher, is apparently in prison right now for possessing child pornography. Has anyone tried to revoke his adminship?
3. GlassCobra? What an http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=28077.
4. http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=25934 for Friday.
5. Nishkid64, famous juvenile banhammer.
6. Plus a number of people I personally find distasteful: Chillum, Bisanz, Tiptoety, NW.

If Wikipedia were not an ugly joke, those freaks
(and probably a few more freaks on the open-to-recall list)
would have already been recalled.

Posted by: Hipocrite

Don't forget Tbsdy lives - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators_open_to_recall/Past_requests&diff=prev&oldid=340215334

Posted by: Eva Destruction

Now that's class. Eight days between "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tbsdy_lives&diff=next&oldid=338458121" and "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Tbsdy_lives&diff=340214225&oldid=340214096" has got to be some kind of record.

Posted by: BelovedFox

For those of us not so close to the pulse of seething drama, please relate! I'm always up for story time

Hey, I haven't changed my recall in years, and I think it's pretty simple! On the other hand, since ArbCom has gotten more active in enforcing "under the cloud"-type remedies, I'm not sure mine is as relevant as it once was--or ever was, as back in the day I'm not sure I had ever been in a situation where someone would even try to get me sacked.


Part of the issue is even well-meaning admins don't immediately realize how easy it would be for the trolls to game the system. So either they renege because it's an obviously-bad-faith request, or they change their rules to something stricter, making it near impossible from a practical standpoint. Either way it's not that effective.

Posted by: Eva Destruction

Translation from Wikipedese: "I am perfect, therefore anyone who opposes me is a troll, therefore I only need to listen to people who agree with everything I say or do".

Have a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AElonka&diff=231067230&oldid=231019991 to see the well-oiled machine that is the recall process in action.

Posted by: Zoloft

I think Eva's description of Tsbdy's statement was over-the-top, speaking as someone who spends some time cracking wise.
He was being poked at by Hipocrite about a section on his user page, where he opined that administrators should be open to recall, (the struck-out part), followed by:
"I've had a rethink about recall. I think it's pretty useless, most recall criteria is necessarily strict to stop frivilous recalls, but unfortunately this also means that they would never pass, even should the admin be totally misbehaved. IMO, an RFC/U does the job just as well. There is no evidence that terrible admins haven't had their admin flags removed in the past."

Which is a reasonable statement. I am no supporter of Tsbdy's antics, but this time he was unfairly slammed.

Posted by: CharlotteWebb

Whatever the the hell this "incident" and his current living arrangements are, he appears in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=343196318&diff=prev to imply that another person has access to his account.

This is sufficient basis to de-sysop him and block his account until further notice, I think.

Posted by: Tarc

Ugh. Indeed. Where do such requests, go, AN?

Posted by: EricBarbour

And yet, he (or his court-appointed "majordomo") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Herostratus to "edit".

What obsession. What bad craziness.

Posted by: Eva Destruction

Damn, I wish I hadn't clicked your link, which led in turn to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zichy_Mih%C3%A1ly_rajz.jpg (safe for work - just - although you may get funny looks). Anyone care to explain how the Sum Of All Human Knowledge is improved by that? My apologies for ever doubting anyone who ever mentioned just what a cesspool that place is becoming.

Posted by: EricBarbour

I'm going to start a new thread in Editors about this......too good (disgusting) to be true......

Posted by: Apathetic

Right to ArbCom. I'm going to shoot them an email.

Posted by: Herschelkrustofsky

Posted by: Milton Roe

Not linked to an article on en.wiki. On wiki.de it's linked to Kindesmisshandlung which I guess is clear enough. But is that old guy wearing a yarmulke? Perhaps they missed that on wiki.de. So 1890's Hungarian eroticism is a little more complicated than we thought....

Posted by: Trick cyclist

So herostratus has removed that nasty picture. Isnt that a good edit?


Thats because herostratus just removed the link.

Not sure what point youre making but theres nothing odd in a late 19th century East European schoolteacher wearing a skullcap.

Posted by: MBisanz

Ahem, now I was recalled at Wikipedia:Administrators_open_to_recall/Past_requests#MBisanz and let the process run its course without complaint or withdrawal, so I do object to the appellation.

Posted by: RDH(Ghost In The Machine)

Afraid that's no longer possible, m'dear...http://wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Goodbye
But if it were, and I had any pull at all I'd certainly put in a good word or two for you.


I suppose the new community deadmining proposal is an improvement over this charade of voluntary recall. Too bad it is doomed by the constipation of consensus.

Posted by: CharlotteWebb

I don't get it. Did somebody lock the database or did http://wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Special:Listusers users somehow agree to stop editing? Are they all the same person or what?

In any case if I had something like that I know I'd run out of money before I ran out of will, cf. E.D.

Posted by: RDH(Ghost In The Machine)

Guess you have more will than they did.
Best as I can figure they simply lost interest...it was not that surprising really-updates became fewer and farther between. It is hard to top a story like Marsden and besides they had been at since March 06.