QUOTE(sarcasticidealist @ Mon 14th July 2008, 5:11am)
QUOTE(LaraLove @ Sun 13th July 2008, 10:36pm)
You'd think, but the majority of admins will fight tooth and nail against it because they're worried about their own bit.
Do you really think so? If I really tried, I could probably list 50 admins who would be in any danger of community recall if such a process existed, and that's being pretty generous
Yes, but, first, 50 people is enough to block any change in Wikipedia's broken "consensus-based" environment, and second, while most of the admins in question have nothing to worry about, they have been convinced by the propaganda that they might be put at risk at some time in the future, and so object themselves. It's rather like how many people are in favor of eliminating estate taxes, even though there is no plausible chance they will ever be in a situation to pay them, because they believe against all logic that they will someday be rich enough to have to pay them.
QUOTE(sarcasticidealist @ Mon 14th July 2008, 7:51am)
In summary, it's completely unclear what formal power Jimbo wields, and nobody in a position to do so seems interested in clarifying it.
Jimmy views his role on the English Wikipedia as that of God-King. His power is unlimited and granted to him by divine right, and may be limited only to the extent that he chooses to limit it himself.