Meta:Requests for adminship/Polyglot

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a closed Meta-Wiki request. Please do not modify it.

Polyglot

I would like to request sysop status on meta, because I would like to be able to add urls to the spam block list. The English Wiktionary is more and more under attack by spammers. (A few months ago this problem was almost non existant, now it's starting to become a major annoyance). I have been a sysop on en.wiktionary.org for about a year now and I have been a sysop on nl.wiktionary.org and es.wiktionary.org since their inception in May 2004. I am also bureaucrat on nl.wiktionary.org. I don't mind if it's not possible to grant me sysop rights here on meta (I'm not all that active over here), but then there should be a very quick system to add spamvertising urls to the black list. Would it help to add that Angela, Jimbo and GerardM know me personally? :-) We met (although briefly) in Rotterdam. Many thanks for your consideration of my request, Polyglot 00:49, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

1. Abstain for now since Polyglot has less than 100 edits. I think an alternative solution needs to be found for the spam blanklist. It should be editable by any admin, not only by Meta admins. Angela 06:15, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

   Is it necessary that all four conditions are met? That seems a bit odd to me. Anyway, I'm not going to edit pages here on meta if there is no need to do so, just to get to the 100 pages watermark. I hope a good way to add spamvertising urls can be found quickly. I do appreciate/understand the fact that it doesn't make a lot of sense to make me a sysop over here just to be able to edit one locked page, though. Cheers, Polyglot 08:08, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

   I could not really be convinced of the need for polyglot to be a sysop here since he does not edit this wiki. Additionnaly, I will add that I do not really see how Ang, Jimbo and GerardM knowing him briefly from Rotterdam makes a difference here. I'll add that I feel personnaly a bit hurt not to be mentionned among those he met, that does not help me feeling very supportive in this cas :) Anthere

   If some sysops would put Talk:Spam_blacklist on their watch page, and respond to requests as they are made, it would be unnecessary to make anyone a sysop for this specific purpose. --Ben Brockert <

   I do this now. silsor 20:57, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

1. Oppose. The apparent purpose for this request is to allow this user to add a site to the MediaWiki spam blacklist which shouldn't be in the MediaWiki spam blacklist. The blacklist is for pure commercial spamming - that is, what just about everyone agrees is certainly spam. goatse.cx itself is appropriate content to link to from the wikis, though it's often used abusively. Why commercial spam? Because it's what is needed to get this list used by all sites using MediaWiki, to make spamming here have a very strong penalty: being barred everywhere similar. If goatse.cx was added, I'd end up having to remove it. Would perhaps be some value in a project-specific blacklist at some point, though. And a Wikimedia-specific list. If someone adds goatse.cx somewhere, remove it or block them. They aren't going to be using the vast range of IPs a really troublesome spammer will use and it's those really troublesome spammers that the blacklist is intended to stop. The spam blacklist is not the place to make "I don't like this content" decisions across all projects. Jamesday 21:48, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Concur with Jamesday, see discussion on Talk:Spam blacklist. silsor 20:57, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)