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RfC/Cent with watchlist notice. Anyone landing here: Please note that this is a draft proposal and a work inprogress for an RfC only and that's why it is in user space. It will be moved to RfC space if and when it is ready. let's keep it limited as much as possible to a small work group to avoid kicking the baby out with the bath water.Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:27, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Introduction

It has been suggested in various discussions that an Admin Review Board may be a solution to the handling of complaints about sysop actions and/or behaviour unbecoming of admins. It has been suggested that the lack of an effective and/or dedicated procedure for addressing admin behaviour is one of the reasons for the assumed failure of WP:RfA to produce sufficient candidates of the right calibre. It has further been suggested on some talk pages that this task could be delegated to the Bureaucrats.

Currently
  1. Bureaucrats are empowered to judge consensus and physically create the sysop flag following a candidate's successful pass at WP:RfA.
  2. Bureaucrats can remove the sysop flag under certain circumstances, one of these being under instruction from Arbcom following an Arbcom decision to desysop.
  3. Although they possess the tool, Bureaucrats are not currently permitted to remove the sysop flag for disciplinary reasons without an Arbcom mandate.

Proposal

Shortcut

This Request for Discussion is to test the community's opinion on:

Whether the Bureaucrats can be considered as a Bureaucrats' Admin Review Committee (BARC) to arrive at a consensus for any action to be taken, including blocks, bans, or removal of admin rights, following appropriate requests from the community.

Background

  • Bureaucrats are a higher 'authority' than administrators.
  • Bureaucrats have gained the community's trust and confidence through their election at WP:RfB which requires a higher pass mark than WP:RfA.
  • Bureacrats have relatively few powers in addition to their admin tools and are shortly to lose their account renaming access.
  • There are 36 Bureaucrats (as of this proposal).
See also
Notes
  1. This Request for Discussion is NOT for discussing the mechanics of how this would take place, or for drafting its policy.
  2. This Request for Discussion is NOT for introducing other alternative methods of admin review.
  3. Participants are requested to observe the above, and not turn this RfC into a general discussion about admin sanctions'.
  4. There are only two sections for commented !votes: Support and Oppose. However, this is not a straw poll, and simple, uncommented 'Support' and 'Oppose' !votes will almost certainly be disregarded by the closer.
  5. Please do not create subsections and tangential discussions.

If broad consensus is achieved in support of the proposal, other discussions will take place to decide how the Bureaucrats' Admin Review Committee should be constituted, how and where their discussion should take place, and how their decisions would be empowered and enacted, Note again: such discussions are NOT for this present RfC.