[WikiEN-l] ArbCom - too attached to "equal treatment"?

Wed Mar 2 17:56:23 UTC 2005

No, calling other Wikipedia users "morons" will get you in trouble,
especially if you try to excuse yourself with the explanation that you
thought the other user "really was a moron". The two users were not treated
the same. There was no question that Xed had a problem. But carefully
reading the edits revealed the problems that Slrubenstein was having also.
It is just a case of going through the edits one by one and watching what
happened step by step.

Fred

> From: "JAY JG" <jayjg at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:22:10 -0500
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] ArbCom - too attached to "equal treatment"?
> 
> Recently a Wikipedia editor e-mailed me regarding concerns she had about the
> ArbCom process.  In particular, she was looking at an ArbCom case brought up
> against an editor who (aside from a couple of articles) has added little in
> the way of actual content, copyedits, or housekeeping to the project, but
> who has long been noted for personal attacks, trolling, edit-warring, and
> who has been temp-banned more than once.  As seems to be typical in these
> cases, the person being brought before ArbCom created a "counter
> arbitration" defense against one complainant in particular  (a long time
> contributer of much valued content, though perhaps given to getting a little
> personal in disputes).  As a matter of policy, the behaviour of those who
> were bringing the complaint was examined with equal intensity.  As the
> person e-mailing me put it
> 
> "It looks like the arbcom is going to put them both on POV parole, which is
> silly; they have this thing about equal treatment. It's like if I report
> someone to the police for a theft, the police first of all have to
> investigate whether I've committed theft too, because if they charge one,
> they have to charge both."
> 
> Is this a valid concern?
> 
> Jay.
> 
> 
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