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| + | User Law was proposed for adminship by 'GlassCobra' in March 2009 after joining Wikipedia in September 2008, making over five thousand edits, nearly half of which were in the mainspace. | ||
User Keegan saw that an anon IP had outed Law as the undertow on Law's talk page. The talk-page history shows that two edits were oversighted on August 16, the page protected, and the anon blocked. The implication is that someone used oversight to hide that Law had violated an ArbCom ban and had gained adminship by lying to the community. And that other admins blocked the whistleblower and protected the page against further revelations. | User Keegan saw that an anon IP had outed Law as the undertow on Law's talk page. The talk-page history shows that two edits were oversighted on August 16, the page protected, and the anon blocked. The implication is that someone used oversight to hide that Law had violated an ArbCom ban and had gained adminship by lying to the community. And that other admins blocked the whistleblower and protected the page against further revelations. | ||
Revision as of 09:04, 3 October 2009
User Law was proposed for adminship by 'GlassCobra' in March 2009 after joining Wikipedia in September 2008, making over five thousand edits, nearly half of which were in the mainspace.
User Keegan saw that an anon IP had outed Law as the undertow on Law's talk page. The talk-page history shows that two edits were oversighted on August 16, the page protected, and the anon blocked. The implication is that someone used oversight to hide that Law had violated an ArbCom ban and had gained adminship by lying to the community. And that other admins blocked the whistleblower and protected the page against further revelations.
At least three administrators knew that Law was really the Undertow, but still either actively helped Law to become an administrator again, or, such as in arbitrator Casliber's case, kept silent and said nothing even though they had misgivings.
