Commons:Administrators/Requests/Russavia (de-adminship 2)
- (Non-crat closure) (User rights log); 09:23 . . Billinghurst (talk | contribs) changed group membership for User:Russavia@commonswiki from administrator to (none) (irc request russavia> !steward please remove the admin bit for myself on Commons) --Steinsplitter (talk) 09:26, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Russavia (de-adminship 2)
Russavia (talk · contributions (views) · deleted user contributions · recent activity (talk · project · deletion requests) · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth)
- Scheduled to end: 06:45, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Russavia has been globally banned by the WMF. I do not think it serves our project to have a banned user listed as an administrator, irrespective of the reasons/justifications for the ban. Retaining the admin flag will only confuse those not aware of the background (including newcomers). If the ban is ever overturned, the community can decide what to do then.
The WMF also removed Russavia's Commons admin rights, which were restored by odder. These procedures and actions are under discussion elsewhere, and should not be discussed here.
--99of9 (talk) 06:47, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Votes
Remove --99of9 (talk) 06:45, 19 January 2015 (UTC)- Remove sorrowfully It's logical for an admin globally locked. --Alan (talk) 06:48, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
- remove serves no valid purpose by being retained, and the user will be unable to comply with Commons minimum action requirements it would disingenuous to allow tools to be return(should circumstances arise) solely on the basis of inactivity. Gnangarra 07:57, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
- remove This post, if genuinely from Russavia, should be the nail in the coffin -- with admissions of continued socking and to continue socking, plus legal threats and some rather unmellow language. Russavia is the only person I've seen edit-war to retain the "This user is mellow" badge on his user page. Keeping Russavia's admin bit would only continue to shame this community. -- Colin (talk) 08:11, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Keep Russavia has been an extremely supportive and active admin for years. He was legitimately voted in to be trusted with the admin tools in 2010 (RFA) with an overwhelming majority, and has uploaded 156,000 images to Commons and been responsible for helping others to upload many more. In particular his avionics project has been a massive success.
- The employee that took this action could have reviewed the evidence with Commons oversight or Commons bureaucrats, then agreed how to address any concerns using community processes and policies. Instead the Wikimedia Foundation has carefully chosen to make this a public act of individual punishment without any possibility of appeal or reform, and firmly slapped the community in the face with their ultimate authority. This act leaves our community with a permanent deep fault line. The Foundation has changed our community, they seem to be ignoring how important our sense of autonomy is for our collegiate vision to hold true and for us to want to stay here. We should actively refuse to accept that our volunteer work is inappropriately controlled using 16th Century techniques of secrecy, politics and fear-management:
... one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting.
— Machiavelli, 1532
- while Russavia had a majority of support in 2010 its was also very clear that by 2013 he had lost that and would of have his Bureaucrat rights removed had he not resigned. Gnangarra 09:20, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
- remove Bidgee (talk) 08:50, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
- remove This is a waste of time and a continuation of drama since the tools are useless to Russavia now. I also don't like the idea of one bureaucrat taking an action like this without consulting fellow bureaucrats or anyone else, and for a second time no less. The Commons community needs less drama not more... INeverCry 08:59, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Comment Russavia requested the removal of his admin bit in #wikimedia-stewards (his) this evening, so I have undertaken that request. I have had plenty of interaction with Russavia and am comfortable that it was he. He asked with good grace, and I thanked him for his resignation and the good grace that it was given. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:32, 19 January 2015 (UTC) @steinsplitter, care to close this process?