Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-04-23/Robdurbar

Robdurbar's logs actually show him blocking Secretlondon and Raul654 before getting Lost and myself. – Riana ^ऋ 06:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that's the biggest issue here :P ~ Giggy! _{Talk (reply here)} 06:47, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, just for the sake of accurate reporting :) – Riana ^ऋ 06:50, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes he went for me first. I've not actually had a dispute with him unless a difference of opinion over chav and charver count. He was very into those articles.. Secretlondon 03:45, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

" Jesse Viviano made a novel suggestion" - please include a link to this novel suggestion and similar discussions in the future. WP:BTW...--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 07:00, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stewards at Wikimania[edit]

The thing about all stewards being at Wikimania in the Wiktionary case is wrong. Not all stewards were there (I know I wasn't ), I think "only" about 1/3 went. Anyways, the fact that there were no stewards available at the time was probably a lucky shot. And nowadays, there are more stewards than there were then, plus that the new tool (!steward) helps making stewards aware of any problems. At that time we may not have had 24/7 coverage, but I daresay we do now. (Also, stewards are Wikimedia geeks deluxe, we spend way too much time on Wikimedia projects. ) Jon Harald Søby 13:37, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A strange Wiki-rampage..[edit]

Was this administrator's account hacked or something? What's going on? --Wassermann 05:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

According to the checkuser, no. However, that doesn't preclude the possibility that he accidentally left himself logged in on a public computer, and someone else took advantage of the situation. Sam Blacketer 08:13, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, it will be highly improbable that the person taking advantage shall target some of the users who were familiar with Robdurbar. --Bhadani (talk) 16:22, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In-built system[edit]

The rampage was contained swiftly is remarkable and all involved to manage the position deserves applause of the community. However, we will have to think over an in-built system to avoid repetition of such a case in future though I am not able to think of a way to formulate any such system. Perhaps such an incidence has happened for the first time. and it is really shocking. --Bhadani (talk) 16:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Continuing with other admins[edit]

On 7 April, the main page was deleted using the accounts of User:AndyZ, User:Eagle 101, User:Jiang, User:Conscious and User:Marine 69-71. It seems to be a case of hacked passwords --SE16 19:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There's obviously going to be a big Signpost story about this. Sam Blacketer 19:51, 7 May 2007 (UTC) (E15)[reply]

sweet[edit]

Wow...

Sweet?! This dude went vandalising all over Wikipedia last month! And more recently, something grotesque happened! Chef Clover MyTalk 23:15, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How did nobody see this coming? "Nothing else matters" 14:57, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RfAs[edit]

And people muse about the "good ol times" when anyone and everyone could get admin powers after a few days. L3X1 (distant write) 12:59, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

L3X1, good ol' Wikipedia story. Enjoyer of World^💬 22:24, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]