Thread:Imamadmad/@comment-188432-20131202045210/@comment-188432-20131202200455

I have today demoted Master of Spiders. As you may have already seen at http://drwho.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:54659#14, however, I did so with great reluctance.

Ideally, he should have been trained better, not stripped of his powers.

I think you and I both share some measure of blame for this. We should have been talking together about this long ago so that we could have perhaps averted this outcome. I disagree with many of the allegations levelled at MOS, but I think the need for the wiki to capitalise on the change of Doctors in a few weeks is of greater benefit to the wiki than prolonging the matter. Sometimes, circumstances demand that you just have to make the clean break and move on.

I don't want this to ever happen again.  In future, when we notice a problem with an admin, we should work together to alter their behavior.

It's really important that the community move beyond this incident swiftly. We entirely need new admins, and for this reason I've begun the process of giving some kind of "substance" to the admin nomination process. I've already created w:c:drwho.answers:Doctor Who Answers:Admin applications so that there is a process in place.

Obviously IPs are welcome to continue editing. But we must have a proactive campaign to start registering accounts. The wiki will not survive if we can't recruit more registered accounts.

Most of your other comments above are completely unfair and wildly inaccurate. So I'll leave them alone, except to say that if you're genuinely concerned about my low edit count, you should remember that you entirely benched me and the bot for months. The differences between how you handled my bot request — what did it take? Six months to go through? — and Corey's, they're like night and day. He was up and running without issue after only a few days, and he hasn't had to submit to the forum. You know that's not how it went down with me. Comparing me to him is like comparing the way a mother raises her first child versus her fifth. You are way more easy-going now, because you're more confident in your understanding of what a bot can do, and so he is able to be productive.

Also you seem to think that I just promoted SOTO and walked away during your week of absence. But the logs don't support that notion. SOTO and I were in constant, near 24 hour communication the whole period, and we regularly discussed DWA during the period. A part of my responsibilities on both wikis is to develop new administrative talent, and it seemed to me that by appointing a likely new admin at TARDIS for a week's trial access to the admin tools, I'd be killing two birds with one stone. Not only would DWA get an enthusiastic temporary "watchdog", but I'd also be helping SOTO learn how to use the admin tools. That doesn't mean that I was at DWA one iota less than I would have been had SOTO not been involved. I edited on the wiki every day in your absence, and the bot had about a thousand edits that week.