[richbell]

> admins don’t intervene often enough for their misjudgements to cause a problem for the whole website

Sure, but admins can influence the narrative of specific topics/pages that they care about.

[eynsham]

Yes, obviously in saying they can’t intervene enough to cause a problem for the whole website I envisage the possibility that they could intervene often enough to cause a problem for a part thereof.

[richbell]

Intervening in specific parts _does_ cause problems for the site as a whole: it damages Wikipedia's reputation.