[WikiEN-l] Arbitration and Policy

Sun Jan 25 11:46:11 UTC 2004

One of the things that will go on as we consider cases is that both the
arbitrators and the mediators will be looking at Wikipedia policies,
examining where they originated, (like who wrote the page, was it after a
considered discussion on the talk pages and mailing lists, how much support
particular policies have among the users, i.e. is the policy generally
followed or ignored, etc.).

And of course the artitrators can sound off about policy, mediators can be
in edit wars, Jimbo can edit all he wants, and like elephants we will never
forget or give up on anything.

Fred

> From: Anthere <anthere8 at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: anthere8 at yahoo.com, English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:54:18 +0100
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Arbitration progress report #2
> 
> Do you suggest that any arbitrator have '''no''' right to participate to
> building policies from now on ?
> 
> I suppose that similarly mediators have no right to participate in edit
> wars from now on as well ?
> 
> Just as Jimbo has no right to edit articles ?
> 
> If so, we might just forget the whole process entirely.