Wikipedia:Temporary Deadminship
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This proposal focuses on Temporary De-Adminship, one of the two implementations of De-adminship in German Wikipedia. The other (re-confirmation) is being discussed at Wikipedia:Administrator recall. It should be noted that admin powers are not permanently removed.
This is only a proposal; anyone is welcome to propose changes and improve it.
Rationale
editThere are two purposes to this proposal - firstly it is to allow more flexibility in the sanction of abuses of administrative powers, secondly to increase accountability by administrators to the Wikipedia community.
Currently, the Arbitration Committee hands out two forms of sanctions aganist administrators : a warning/temporary de-adminship, and permanent de-adminship. The former appears to be too mild a sanction in comparison to the length and complexity arbitration cases take to be processed (between 6-8 weeks). At community level however, this is likely to be seen as a more appropriate level of sanction (historically, proposals for permanent de-adminship by the community have often been rejected as being too harsh).
Cases on arbitration are usually reserved only for instances where abuse of administrative powers are severe and obvious; For problems that are chronic or milder, the Committee has traditionally been reticent to open a case. Temporary de-adminship allows an avenue by the community to deal with such instances, serving as a check and balance on the actions of existing administrators, who are currently elected for life once they pass requests for adminship.
One should also take note that this proposal is designed specifically for easy implementation, with integration into the existing requests for comment.
Process
edit- The petitioner uses the existing procedures of requests for comment to propose a temporary de-adminship. To prevent abuse, this RFC must be certified by at least two admins (as opposed to two regular users, for a regular RFC).
- The defendant must be notified on his or her talk page. The RFC page is used for discussing the matter.
- After at least a week, the petitioner will decide whether to close the RFC, or proceed on the same page with a petition for temporary de-adminship, for a period of time of up to three months.
- The petition lasts for a week. Editors can support or oppose the motion, or discuss further.
- After a week, a bureaucrat will examine the petition. If consensus supports the petition (opposing the defendant), the defendant shall lose his adminship for the period set by the petitioner at the start of the petition (a steward has to be notified to perform this step).
- If there no consensus, or consensus is opposed to the petition, no action will be taken against the defendant. Whether or not the petition succeeds, no editor is allowed to restart this process against the defendant for a period of six months.
- When the period of temporary de-adminship expires, the defendant has his or her adminship reinstated with no further discussion.