Wikipedia:Administrators/Current issues and requests archive 1

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[edit] July 2005

  • Roberto goes on a fairly long vandalism spree, mostly consisting of changing the Main Page to add some unpopular images and is then blocked indefinitely.

[edit] April 2005

  • Mariusz Marcel Ernst returned to intentionally contribute more nonsense and was blocked indefinitely. Much of it was the creation of one line page creations which were deleted.

[edit] October 2004

[edit] September 2004

  • Former admin Tim Starling decided to desysop himself here, and on other wikis, where he is not active.

[edit] August 2004

[edit] April 2004

  • Tango becomes Simple's eighth administrator.
  • One user is repeatedly blocked for vandalism, primarily to Angela's user pages.
  • User:Anonyme is not a user, but a page being borrowed by the French Wikipedia so they can sort out one of their policies without interference from a problematic user on fr. They have asked sysops here not to delete it for a few days while they work on it.

[edit] March 2004

  • Optim appears to have quit Wikipedia and is replaced by two new sysops: SimonMayer and Mero.

[edit] January 2004

  • A user calling himself Mariusz Marcel Ernst, the master, was banned multiple times for vandalism and copyright violations. Later, the whole range was blocked. This block was removed in February.
  • The deletion policy and protection policy were written.