My Admin Policy: I trust that my fellow admins' actions are done for the good of Wikipedia. So if any of my admin actions are overturned I will not consider such an action to be a "Wheel War", but rather an attempt to improve Wikipedia. If I disagree with your action, I will try to discuss it with you or with the admin community, but I absolve you in advance of any presumption of acting improperly. We should all extend the same benefit of the doubt to our fellow admins, until they repeatedly prove that they are unworthy of such a presumption.
Speaking specifically of blocks, if I block someone and they ask nicely to be unblocked and promise not to repeat whatever transgression led to the block, you have my full permission to unblock and/or reduce the time of the block. Blocks are preventative and if there is nothing to prevent, there's no reason not to unblock.
I will stand for recall as an administrator under the following conditions:
- The action(s) involve use of admin tools, not user tools.
- Users (minimum 2, as required by an RFC) involved have attempted to contact me and resolve their disagreement with my actions unsatisfactorily to their liking.
- The action(s) occurred more than once, and at least once after the attempt to resolve mentioned above.
- There is a RFC filed (after requirements #2 and #3 above) and accepted based upon these actions.
- There is consensus within the editors of the RFC that I should be required to stand for recall (minimum 67.0%). A specific section of the RFC shall be to address administrator recall with editors available to select "required", "not required", and "no opinion" (which for the purposes of counting shall count as "not required"). Only editors that choose to participate in this section shall be counted towards the required minimum.
- I shall then be required to stand for recall during a one-week period that is relatively convenient for me within 1 month. (This allows planned vacations or something similar to occur with me able to participate in the process.) Such periods of unavailability shall be required to be stated at the conclusion of the RFC. The new recall RFA shall be required to start as soon as possible otherwise. For the recall RFA, standard RFA methods at the time shall be used, and the determining bureaucrat shall confirm my adminship if consensus determines it (support) or remove adminship if there is no consensus for me to remain an admin (oppose). As of this writing (but rules dictated at the time of recall RFA shall prevail), 75% support shall be considered consensus to remain an admin -- but the bureaucrat shall be the deciding figure.
- Changes to this may be considered by myself and involved parties should there be an agreement to do so.