QUOTE(guy @ Sat 22nd December 2007, 4:22pm)
QUOTE(Moulton @ Sat 22nd December 2007, 2:40pm)
I'd be willing to be a character reference for him.
I can vouch for his character as a dedicated policeman on Wikipedia.
You can say that about a lot of people. Are they fair and competent?
That's a separable issue. It is customary to separate the police function from the judicial function.
More to the point, the police function is separable from the academic function of crafting encyclopedic articles that rise to a respectable level of accuracy, excellence, and ethics in online media.