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Given the circumstances in which you returned I thought it was most appalling that ''during'' the edit warring you requested admin tools without making a single constructive edit. I'd give you the benefit of the doubt over the "socking" but the fact that you requested your admin tools back during that seemed power hungry and wrong given that you haven't constructively edited in 4 years. You claim that "the community voted me to be an admin" yet back in 2005 RFA was radically different to today, we were desperate for admins and very few people turned out to vote in them, and you simply would not pass RFA today. I'm not asking you to go for another RFA but given the time you have abandoned us a LOT has changed on here. Instead I ask you to set aside your admin rights for a full month, prove to me and us that you are a worthy admin and would use the tools to good purpose and at the end of the month Bisanz or Nihon or whoever can give them back to you, which given their obvious desperation for administrators would likely do so, unless you do something radically worrying in the meantime. I think its the least you can do to regain the community's trust that you are still worthy of having full admin rights but also that you are genuine about wanting to improve the encyclopedia as a resource and respect editors like myself and the other very active contributors on here that we can trust you again. I'll return to wikipedia once you can illustrate to me that your return to wikipedia is 100% in good faith and that you really want wikipedia to improve as a resource and that you have no intent to your your admin powers to block regular editors from editing articles they disagree with you on. Given what I contribute to wikipedia in an entire month, to not do so would suggest that content doesn't concern you, and that you are in fear of losing your admin rights permanently, rather than genuinely wanting to help the community and improve the website. I think you'd instantly gain far more respect from people here for doing this in the meantime. My return to wikipedia is in your hands. ♦ ] 14:48, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Given the circumstances in which you returned I thought it was most appalling that during the edit warring you requested admin tools without making a single constructive edit. I'd give you the benefit of the doubt over the "socking" but the fact that you requested your admin tools back during that seemed power hungry and wrong given that you haven't constructively edited in 4 years. You claim that "the community voted me to be an admin" yet back in 2005 RFA was radically different to today, we were desperate for admins and very few people turned out to vote in them, and you simply would not pass RFA today. I'm not asking you to go for another RFA but given the time you have abandoned us a LOT has changed on here. Instead I ask you to set aside your admin rights for a full month, prove to me and us that you are a worthy admin and would use the tools to good purpose and at the end of the month Bisanz or Nihon or whoever can give them back to you, which given their obvious desperation for administrators would likely do so, unless you do something radically worrying in the meantime. I think its the least you can do to regain the community's trust that you are still worthy of having full admin rights but also that you are genuine about wanting to improve the encyclopedia as a resource and respect editors like myself and the other very active contributors on here that we can trust you again. I'll return to wikipedia once you can illustrate to me that your return to wikipedia is 100% in good faith and that you really want wikipedia to improve as a resource and that you have no intent to your your admin powers to block regular editors from editing articles they disagree with you on. Given what I contribute to wikipedia in an entire month, to not do so would suggest that content doesn't concern you, and that you are in fear of losing your admin rights permanently, rather than genuinely wanting to help the community and improve the website. I think you'd instantly gain far more respect from people here for doing this in the meantime. My return to wikipedia is in your hands. ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld14:48, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
