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[LessHorrid vanU]

Hiberniantears page for finding out if you like his sysopping. Apart from being a spambot and therefore unable to register on this site, if there are any comments you wish to make about the use of the admin flags by this editor then here is your opportunity to comment.

[Somey]

Hiberniantears seems to have forgotten that it's vacation for many people, and also most people don't give a damn.

I was gonna say! If you want people to pay attention to your latest screed, however worthy, don't post it between Christmas and New Year's.

Also, since there's been "offsite canvassing" in the form of this very thread, non-WR members who comment there might be suspected of having read this thread first, and by extension, suspected of visiting WR in general. They might not want to reveal that to other WP'ers.

[radek]

Somewhat on topic:

Anyone know how often the 'Open to Recall' option has actually been put in effect for some admin on that list (if ever) and resulted in a de-sysoping? And when it was put in motion, was the resulting process any less drama and pointlessness prone than a standard de-sysoping via AN/I or whatever would have been? Did the person go nicely or did they go kicking and screaming? Is it for realz or it is a facade, another one of those Wiki-hypocrisies where the whole collective pretends something is when it really isn't?

I can't think of a single instance but hell, 7 months ago I didn't even know what an "ArbCom" was.

[CharlotteWebb]

Anyone know how often the 'Open to Recall' option has actually been put in effect for some admin on that list (if ever) and resulted in a de-sysoping?

Very good question.

As far as I know the closest any admin has come to being successfully recalled was Navou (a.k.a. half a dozen other names).

I personally asked him for a recall a couple years ago and he said he required six signatures. Once other people agreed with me, he removed himself from the admin-recall category and declared all bets to be off. I'm not sure how many times he changed his mind about that as his pages were deleted but he continued this line of skulduggery for a several days but eventually opened a "recall" page after Durova threatened to disown him.

I believe he maintains that he resigned voluntarily (in response to the cratering of his arbcom bid a few weeks prior) with no cloud and not on account of any stinkin' recall, so the number of recalled admins is still zero by his count.

A little birdy told me this user has passed RFA again under a different name. If this is true it would arguably push the admin-recall tally to negative one.

But good for him. I don't really care anymore.

This post has been edited by CharlotteWebb: Mon 28th December 2009, 9:35pm

[Lar]

Anyone know how often the 'Open to Recall' option has actually been put in effect for some admin on that list (if ever) and resulted in a de-sysoping?

Very good question.

As far as I know the closest any admin has come to being successfully recalled was Navou (a.k.a. half a dozen other names).

Disagree.

See Wikipedia:Administrators_open_to_recall/Past_requests. In my view the least dramatic successful recall would have to be Crzrussian. That was a while ago now.

[radek]

Disagree.

See Wikipedia:Administrators_open_to_recall/Past_requests. In my view the least dramatic successful recall would have to be Crzrussian. That was a while ago now.

And AFAICT Crzrussian is pretty much the only one. Sort of. The other close ones are Durova, but I think that was done mostly through AN/I (I could be wrong about this) and Keilan I who was quickly reconfirmed (but gets kudos for going through the process).

The rest are under the "the request was not made in good faith" excuse or something similar, or not enough people cared - though I'm sure in many cases the requests actually weren't made in good faith.