Wikimedia Stewards, Blogging about Jimbo and other stewards Options

[JWSchmidt]

I'm blogging about Wikimedia stewards. Does anyone have any good steward stories?

-John Schmidt

[thekohser]

I'm blogging about Wikimedia stewards. Does anyone have any good steward stories?

-John Schmidt

Mike Lifeguard trying to enforce a personally-decided Meta ban on me by breaking rules on various other Wikimedia projects was pretty funny. When it became clear that his action was a pointless personal vendetta, he cried a little like a baby, then (mostly) quit around September 2010.

[JWSchmidt]

Mike Lifeguard trying to enforce a personally-decided Meta ban on me by breaking rules on various other Wikimedia projects was pretty funny. When it became clear that his action was a pointless personal vendetta, he cried a little like a baby, then (mostly) quit around September 2010.

Mike.lifeguard is on my list of stewards to be discussed. I was amazed when he deleted some user page content at Wikiversity. A helpful edit by Mike. I opposed him when he was a candidate for Custodian at Wikiversity. The end.

I need to look at how the Wikibooks community finally got rid of him.

-John Schmidt

[thekohser]

Mike.lifeguard is on my list of stewards to be discussed. I was amazed when he deleted some user page content at Wikiversity. A helpful edit by Mike. I opposed him when he was a candidate for Custodian at Wikiversity. The end.

I need to look at how the Wikibooks community finally got rid of him.

-John Schmidt

You're joking, right, John?

Mike.lifeguard posted his retirement from Wikibooks on September 9, 2010, about 4.26 hours after I was unblocked there.

He would later sputter the next day with his wet, cry-baby eyes that my status had no bearing on his decision to leave. Sure, Mike. We believe you, buddy.

[JWSchmidt]

He would later sputter the next day

Thanks for the link. I was told the day that he resigned, but I've never really been in the loop at Wikibooks. I had half an eye on Wikibooks for about a month (Aug-Sept) and saw "QuiteUnusual" dismiss one of Moulton's arguments as "Wikilawyering at its worst" and he said he was willing to leave the block in place. I'm still not sure how the tide was changed.

-John Schmidt

[Gruntled]

I had half an eye on Wikibooks for about a month (Aug-Sept) and saw "QuiteUnusual" dismiss one of Moulton's arguments as "Wikilawyering at its worst"

I assume that this is an expression of praise for QuiteUnusual. It is undoubtedly well deserved; he's a very fine admin; no doubt many here would say he's better than any WMF site deserves.

[Gruntled]

I had half an eye on Wikibooks for about a month (Aug-Sept) and saw "QuiteUnusual" dismiss one of Moulton's arguments as "Wikilawyering at its worst"

I assume that this is an expression of praise for QuiteUnusual. It is undoubtedly well deserved; he's a very fine admin; no doubt many here would say he's better than any WMF site deserves.

And just to prove that I'm not alone in my opinion of QuiteUnusual, his RfB is currently running at 13/0/0 [wb]Wikibooks:Requests for permissions[/wb].

Hmmm ... why don't [wb]Wikibooks tags[/wb] work?

This post has been edited by Gruntled: Sun 3rd April 2011, 8:48am