Boink Boink wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 10:26 pm
The only reason this "hanging judge" isn't doing what he would normally do, is because he has been paid off.
Would not surprise me. Few arbitrators are such complete butt-licks.
This has not been updated recently but you get the idea.
Thomas Fish
Young Mr. Fish, Guerillero (T-C-F-R-B), showed up on Wikipedia only in 2009 and began editing seriously in 2010. By 2013 he had become an administrator, oversighter, checkuser, auditor, and highly trusted Arbcom clerk. And in 2014 he became an arbitrator.
Fish is a student at Washington University in Maryland. He has foolishly used the school's IP address (209.243.39.149) to edit, and to buttlick on Wikipedia IRC channels. He openly admits being dyslexic.
He first appeared on Wikipedia in November 2009, and edited articles about "straightedge" punk music. He quickly figured out how to set up the Twinkle patrolling bot, and was grinding by December. Interestingly, like a typical college Wikipedian, he cuts back greatly during the summertime. In late 2010 he got very serious, and his contribs exploded (mostly patrolling vandalism).
He held the inevitable editor review in April 2011, wherein he was criticized for writing very little content of value, and for being erratic. And it mattered not at all, as his RFA in November was successful, despite attracting some criticism. Patrollers are "more equal".
Mr. Fish is an obvious power-chaser. In May 2012 he became an Arbcom clerk. In May 2013, he was appointed to Arbcom's Audit Committee, and gained oversight powers in August 2013. The Audit Subcommittee is supposed to watch over checkusers and oversighters and prevent abuses, yet it is routinely filled with people having those powers. There is no obvious record of Fish's receipt of checkuser power, it appears to have been done "in secret" or as part of his Audit Subcommittee appointment.
He is willing to censor Wikipedia's database to remove criticisms (see William_McWhinney#The_end_of_the_cabal.3F_No.21).
He ran for arbitrator in December 2012, and failed, coming in just below the threshold. He ran again in December 2013 and failed again. Interestingly, little mention was made of his paltry work on Wikipedia during 2013. He made an absurd statement in answer to one of the questions: "I would look for a dispute to have gone through several levels of DR before coming to arbcom. Many of the "Go directly to Arbcom. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200" type requests could have been solved by mediation or a RfC." In fact, mediation and RFCs have proven to be rather useless in most previous Wikipedia editing disputes.
On 9 October 2013, he "resigned the admin bits", claiming he wanted a "vacation". And on 16 December, he requested their return, and they were returned, no questions asked. By Will Nicholes.
Fish has blocked relatively few editors, in fact he has done very little on Wikipedia at all, except pursue positions of increasing power.
He was so popular, in December 2014 he was elected to a two-year Arbcom term. He came in at the bottom of the winning field.
During the Wifione arbitration case, it was remarked that blocked user "Peter Damian" had considerable information on Wifione's Wikipedia career, having cowritten the lengthy Wikipediocracy post about Wifione. Fish's comment shut that down: "User:Peter Damian has the option to appeal his community ban via the usual channels. A special exemption will not be given for this case --Guerillero | My Talk 20:23, 4 January 2015 (UTC)"
