Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Law
User Law was proposed for adminship by 'GlassCobra' in March 2009 after joining Wikipedia in September 2008, making over five thousand edits, nearly half of which were in the mainspace.
User Keegan saw that an anon IP had outed Law as the undertow on Law's talk page. The talk-page history shows that two edits were oversighted on August 16, the page protected, and the anon blocked. The implication is that someone used oversight to hide that Law had violated an ArbCom ban and had gained adminship by lying to the community. And that other admins blocked the whistleblower and protected the page against further revelations.
At least three administrators knew that Law was really the Undertow, but still either actively helped Law to become an administrator again, or, such as in arbitrator Casliber's case, kept silent and said nothing even though they had misgivings.
The undertow was blocked by Raul654 on 16 June 2008 with an expiry time of 9 months "Per discussion on the arbcom mailing list" [1]
Law was created on 4 September 2008. [2]
"He's my best friend. Big deal. I trust him. That's why I supported him. I don't care if he broke a rule on a website. He wanted to get into new areas, I knew his intentions were good (which is more than I can say for most of the RFAs I vote in, where I assume the intentions for people I don't know are good), so I supported him. I'll always have his back no matter what, because we're friends regardless of what's going on with Wikipedia. I would never put a website before a friendship. And I would never not get his back because I'm an admin. If you don't trust me with my tools, recall me, but I won't be admonished for supporting my best friend. Lara 13:29, 30 September 2009 (UTC)" [3]
