User:Kevin

The Good
  biographies of living persons

Thank you for taking care of the correct sourcing for BLPs, with care and attention, patience and diligence, and for treating editors as living persons, following the spirit of policy rather than letter, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:41, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Some of these people are sadly missed around here. Most of these relate to the Great BLP Deletions of 2010 which led to this:

The Committee has examined this matter. In light of the following considerations:


 * That the core principles of the policy on biographies of living people—in particular, neutrality and verifiability—have been set forth by the Wikimedia Foundation as a mandate for all projects;
 * That the policy on biographies of living people, and this Committee's ruling in the Badlydrawnjeff case, call for the removal of poorly sourced and controversial content, and places the burden of demonstrating compliance on those who wish to see the content included;
 * That unsourced biographies of living people may contain seemingly innocuous statements which are actually damaging, but there is no way to determine whether they do without providing sources;
 * That Wikipedia, through the founding principle of "Ignore All Rules", has traditionally given administrators wide discretion to enforce policies and principles using their own best judgment; and
 * That administrators have been instructed to aggressively enforce the policy on biographies of living people.

The Committee has determined that:


 * The deletions carried out by Rdm2376 [Kevin], Scott MacDonald, and various other administrators are a reasonable exercise of administrative discretion to enforce the policy on biographies of living people.
 * The administrators who carried out these actions are commended for their efforts to enforce policy and uphold the quality of the encyclopedia, but are urged to conduct future activities in a less chaotic manner.
 * The administrators who interfered with these actions are reminded that the enforcement of the policy on biographies of living people takes precedence over mere procedural concerns.

The Committee hereby proclaims an amnesty for all editors who may have overstepped the bounds of policy in this matter. Everyone is asked to continue working together to improve and uphold the goals of our project. The Committee recommends, in particular, that a request for comments be opened to centralize discussion on the most efficient way to proceed with the effective enforcement of the policy on biographies of living people. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Motions

And thanks to the hard work of a lot of people who aren't me, the number of unsourced biographies went from over 50,000 to less than 100 at the time of writing.

The Bad
A more appropriate response IMHO: Contains Mild Peril (talk) 20:30, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

I know there's more, help me out...

The Ugly

 * 06:18, 5 March 2013 X! (talk | contribs) changed group membership for User:Kevin from administrator to (none) (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard&oldid=542165079#User:Kevin.27s_unblock_of_User:Cla68)
 * 03:02, 21 January 2010 DESiegel (talk | contribs) unblocked Kevin (talk | contribs) (turnign the matter over to the ArbCom's descrition)
 * 01:46, 21 January 2010 DESiegel (talk | contribs) blocked Kevin (talk | contribs) (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 12 hours (Disruptive editing: Continues deletions agaisnt policy, without consensus support, after havign been repeatedly asked, waned and previously blocked)
 * 00:18, 21 January 2010 Coffee (talk | contribs) unblocked Kevin (talk | contribs) (no breach of policy here... until you can show me one Geni, I suggest you stop)
 * 00:09, 21 January 2010 Geni (talk | contribs) blocked Kevin (talk | contribs) (autoblock disabled) with an expiry time of 3 hours (Continuing behavior that resulted in previous block)
 * 23:08, 20 January 2010 Geni (talk | contribs) blocked Kevin (talk | contribs) (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 10 minutes (dissruption through the mass use of admin tools unsupported by policy and failing to stop when asked. Was warned)