Raul654, Wikipedia's 2nd worst admin, probable leader of the cabal - so why Options

[blissyu2]

In our recent poll, we adjudged Raul654 to be Wikipedia's second worst administrator (after Slim Virgin, tied for 2nd with Snowspinner). Here we are, quite rightly having lots of information investigating Slim Virgin (moreso lately than overall, but overall still having more on Slim Virgin than anyone else). And whilst we have also had a half decent amount on Snowspinner, we've had practically nothing on Raul654.

Lir wrote a wonderful piece about Raul654, who was a major part of Lir's criticism of Wikipedia. We've agreed that he is probably a major part of the cabal, if not their leader. He is a high ranking administrator, bureaucrat and long-term Arb Com member, with meta admin status. He has added Lir's criticism to the spam black list, as well as Wikipedia Review.com (which was reversed by Eloquence eventually, but Lir's was not). He also added Wikitruth to the spam black list, which was later reversed. When I spoke to him on meta (the only time I've ever talked to him), he was rude, obnoxious, arrogant and very false.

So what do we have on this guy? If we can do that much to expose Slim Virgin, surely Raul654 deserves at least half as much attention. We need to catch up.

Why precisely is he such a bad administrator? Why would Wikipedia be better off without him? Why should Jimbo desysop him?

[thekohser]

Why precisely is he such a bad administrator? Why would Wikipedia be better off without him? Why should Jimbo desysop him?

I did interact with Mark early on in the Wikipedia Review saga. At the time, he seemed to be open-minded enough, that I didn't consider him adversarial in any way. More recently, though, I've seen that he's definitely against me personally, or against the Wikipedia Review concept... I don't recall specifically, and I can't readily provide the "diffs". Anyway, since I've made his sh*tlist, then I guess he's on mine now, too.

By the way, he's supposedly studying at University of Delaware. I typically attend 2 to 4 home games of the Blue Hens each autumn. If anyone needs me to physically stalk Raul in person, I could be paid to do so.

(Kidding, folks.) Let's see how long it takes a Wikipedia admin to cite the above paragraph, conveniently expunging this paragraph, so it looks like another "threat" from Wikipedia Review.

Greg

This post has been edited by thekohser: Mon 16th April 2007, 7:25am