I did, of course, mean that only administrators at 30 November should be able to stand for
election. The point being that the community has already said it is willing to put an
amount of trust in those elected as administrators. By publicising such a fact well in
advance, those wishing to be arbitrator candidates who aren't admins will have time
enough to apply for the role. It's an idea to weed out clearly unsuitable candidates
as I find it inconceivable that the community would be willing to trust someone as an
arbitrator but not as an admin. There are all sorts of admins too - many of which probably
wouldn't make good arbitrators - but at least such a requirement would remove the
trolls from the election.
The idea of having 24 arbitrators of whom only 7 hear each case is designed to lighten the
workload and mean not all active arbitrators have to wade through every single case.
I'd be interested to hear from current arbitrators as to whether lessening their
individual load in such a way would interest them. (Of course, it is predicated on being
able to find 24 willing volunteers!)
Jon
Fred Bauder wrote:
It is not. Although all current Arbitrators happen to be.
Fred
On Jul 11, 2005, at 8:21 PM, Kelly Martin wrote:
On 7/11/05, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com>
wrote:
"Only Wikipedians on the English Wikipedia
that are _Administrators_
as at 30 November are eligible for the year end elections..."
I wasn't aware that there was a requirement that arbitrators be
administrators.
Kelly
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