En-WP:Hang(wo)men

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In principle, Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can administer. There are indeed a number of a-no-nymous administrators on most of the mediawiki projects I've seen (WMF controlled or not). In practice, many communities seem to develop a certain number of star blockers who can be caricatured as hang(wo)men, bounty hunters, border patrol agents. Not all administrators play this role, of course, as you get a lot of "blood" on your hands. Some executioners on en.wp who have commanded or caught my attention include...

Dennis Brown

  • The "stuff I've deleted" from my defining user page coz that's-just-not-who-I-am-anymore diff -- Sept. 11, 2017
  • is said to be tight with Drmies and seems to be. I wonder if Drmies knows Dennis Brown from Adam.
  • Dennis Brown, "I don't want to be no general". [1]
  • a messy execution, completely lacking in transparency from what I've seen for the moment.

Goldenring

  • Made me bigly ineffable in one of his first cases. Later, he would get toolboxed by the Mob for trying to gag Marek for a spell. (wikirev)

Bishonen

  • An ext-roarRrR-dinary albatross with a whole menagerie of swampsocks.

Anna Frodesiak

  • Oddly, when googling User:AnnaFrodesiak, Ming, Marek, Tarc, Tarantino, and a few other WPO notables spring into view. Though she's blocked as many people as Bishonen, she seems to have fewer enemies. Perhaps it's a question of tone.

Drmies

  • As a general rule, doesn't know people from Adam.

Sandstein

  • Very different from the others listed above. There have been tensions with Bishonen over the (very existence of the) AE board, for example.

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2017-04-18

<tr><th style="padding: 3px;">Admin name</th><th style="padding: 3px;">blocks</th><th style="padding: 3px;">unblocks</th><th style="padding: 3px;">Admin name</th><th style="padding: 3px;">blocks</th><th style="padding: 3px;">unblocks</th></tr>

<tr><td style="padding: 3px;">Zzuuuzz</td><td style="padding: 3px;">21117</td><td style="padding: 3px;">1178</td><td style="padding: 3px;">El C</td><td style="padding: 3px;">3378</td><td style="padding: 3px;">125</td></tr> <tr><td style="padding: 3px;">Bbb23</td><td style="padding: 3px;">18567</td><td style="padding: 3px;">93</td><td style="padding: 3px;">*Dennis Brown</td><td style="padding: 3px;">2230</td><td style="padding: 3px;">30</td></tr> <tr><td style="padding: 3px;">DoRD</td><td style="padding: 3px;">12892</td><td style="padding: 3px;">183</td><td style="padding: 3px;">*Coffee</td><td style="padding: 3px;">2097</td><td style="padding: 3px;">59</td></tr> <tr><td style="padding: 3px;">Drmies</td><td style="padding: 3px;">8649</td><td style="padding: 3px;">77</td><td style="padding: 3px;">*JzG</td><td style="padding: 3px;">2071</td><td style="padding: 3px;">105</td></tr> <tr><td style="padding: 3px;">Doug Weller</td><td style="padding: 3px;">8438</td><td style="padding: 3px;">99</td><td style="padding: 3px;">Sandstein</td><td style="padding: 3px;">1812</td><td style="padding: 3px;">277</td></tr> <tr><td style="padding: 3px;">Alison</td><td style="padding: 3px;">7277</td><td style="padding: 3px;">416</td><td style="padding: 3px;">*Malik Shabazz</td><td style="padding: 3px;">1683</td><td style="padding: 3px;">11</td></tr> <tr><td style="padding: 3px;">Anna Frodesiak</td><td style="padding: 3px;">5090</td><td style="padding: 3px;">60</td><td style="padding: 3px;">MastCell</td><td style="padding: 3px;">1211</td><td style="padding: 3px;">81</td></tr> <tr><td style="padding: 3px;">Bishonen</td><td style="padding: 3px;">4995</td><td style="padding: 3px;">260</td><td style="padding: 3px;">*Laser brain</td><td style="padding: 3px;">276</td><td style="padding: 3px;">6</td></tr> <tr><td style="padding: 3px;">Beeblebrox</td><td style="padding: 3px;">4134</td><td style="padding: 3px;">326</td><td style="padding: 3px;">Neutrality</td><td style="padding: 3px;">199</td><td style="padding: 3px;">59</td></tr> <tr><td style="padding: 3px;">NuclearWarfare</td><td style="padding: 3px;">3974</td><td style="padding: 3px;">135</td></tr>

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