Daniel Mayer wrote:
I don't think this is a legal issue. If I understand him correctly, he
was making an analogy between the sort of process followed in civil and
criminal trials. Obviously, this is an internal administrative matter,
akin to a private school keeping a child in from recess, not either a
civil or a criminal trial (and thus not a legal matter). I think
Sascha's point, unless I misunderstand him, was that we ought in this
case to use a model more closely analogous to a criminal trial, where
there is a prosecutor for the public interest (in this case Wikipedians'
interest), rather than one analogous to a civil trial, where two people
(two users) are set up in opposition to each other.
-Mark