[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee Seeking Comment

Sun Jun 19 03:44:13 UTC 2005

>From: fun at thingy.apana.org.au (David Gerard)
>
>Jimmy Wales (jwales at wikia.com) [050613 10:38]:
> > Sean Barrett wrote:
>
> > > I am very worried that we are seriously discussing the formation of a
> > > committee empowered to prohibit unpopular content from Wikipedia and 
>to
> > > ban those that feel that it is important to record it.
>
> > I don't think that's what we are discussing.
>
>
>jguk has already left Wikipedia over the present content-related AC case,
>feling he was being railroaded. I don't think that counts as a win for
>Wikipedia - we're talking about a good contributor, not some obnoxious
>nutter we're better without.
>
>It's a larger version of exasperating one's opponents off the wiki, only
>this time using the AC as a hammer. So far I'm only seeing taking on
>content-related cases as setting up a disaster.

jguk was a good contributor when it came to cricket related articles; he was 
pretty obnoxious when it came to the use of BCE/CE.  Also, his leaving is 
recent; many people who have been sanctioned by ArbCom, or even threatened 
with sanction, return after a few weeks.  The way I see it, the good 
contributors who leave in exasperation are more often never involved with 
ArbCom, and are driven away by the people who eventually do get sanctioned 
by ArbCom.

Jay.
Jay.