The Fred Bauder desysopping of 2018
Posted: Sat May 08, 2021 10:51 pm
I keep forgetting about this comical little incident. It involves only longtime WP insiders. Most notably, it was triggered by Maxim, who I have long suspected is an administrative/bureaucrat sockpuppet owned by David Gerard. And perennial bastards Boing!, Future Perfect, and Beeblebrox were deeply involved. Bauder was one of Wikipedia's earliest administrators, having been installed by His Royal Majesty Jimbo back in 2002/03 (the records are shredded so it's impossible to find when it was made official).
If you ever need a golden example of the idiotic madhouse beneath Wikipedia's surface gloss, here ya go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... red_Bauder
Neatly summed up in the contents (VERY unusual for the Arbcommunists):
If you ever need a golden example of the idiotic madhouse beneath Wikipedia's surface gloss, here ya go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... red_Bauder
Neatly summed up in the contents (VERY unusual for the Arbcommunists):
Things are changing in Wikiworld. Even five years ago this kind of unceremonious tossout for an old FOJ would have been unthinkable. But then Bauder is almost completely forgotten by now. His early "editing" history is an absolute joke. He was one of the people responsible for pushing Larry Sanger out. And Jimbo put him on Arbcom very early on, with "community support" which you cannot find. Bauder was an absolutely awful Wikipedian. His editing work is paltry and he did very little administrative gruntwork. This old blog post by David Collins sums Fred up nicely.4.2 Findings of fact
4.2.1 Locus of dispute
4.2.2 Arbitration Committee election process
4.2.3 Edit warring
4.2.4 Fred Bauder used rollback inappropriately
4.2.5 Boing! said Zebedee blocked Fred Bauder
4.2.6 Fred Bauder unblocked himself twice
4.2.7 Iridescent re-blocked Fred Bauder
4.2.8 Future Perfect at Sunrise re-blocked Fred Bauder
4.2.9 Maxim desysopped Fred Bauder
4.2.10 Current policy on bureaucratic removal of administrator permissions
4.2.11 Electoral Commission not consulted
4.3 Remedies
4.3.1 Fred Bauder admonished
4.3.2 Fred Bauder desysopped
4.3.3 Boing! said Zebedee cautioned (II)
4.3.4 Editors reminded