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...
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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.
Tabulated data
2017-04-18
Admin name | blocks | unblocks | Admin name | blocks | unblocks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Zzuuuzz | 21,117 | 1,178 | El C | 3,378 | 125 |
Bbb23 | 18,567 | 93 | *Dennis Brown | 2,230 | 30 |
DoRD | 12,892 | 183 | *Coffee | 2,097 | 59 |
Drmies | 8,649 | 77 | *JzG | 2,071 | 105 |
Doug Weller | 8,438 | 99 | Sandstein | 1,812 | 277 |
Alison | 7,277 | 416 | *Malik Shabazz | 1,683 | 11 |
Anna Frodesiak | 5,090 | 60 | MastCell | 1,211 | 81 |
Bishonen | 4,995 | 260 | *Laser brain | 276 | 6 |
Beeblebrox | 4,134 | 326 | Neutrality | 199 | 59 |
NuclearWarfare | 3,974 | 135 |
2017-10-16 Drmies: 9,895 2016-04-18 Drmies: 8,649
1246 / 6 months = 208 / month