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

Wed Mar 2 20:46:23 UTC 2005

A member of the arbitration committee told an editor a few weeks ago
that the equal-treatment policy of the arbitration committee had been
adopted deliberately in order to discourage editors from bringing
cases. Wikipedia is so slow today that I haven't yet been able to find
the posts where this was said, but it was fairly unambiguous, and I'm
pretty sure I'm remembering it correctly.

Perhaps members of the arbitration committee could say here whether
the policy of symmetrical treatment has been adopted, officially or
otherwise, in order to cut down on the number of cases coming to
arbitration.

Sarah

> JAY JG said:
> > The  difference between the system here and that in the real world is
> > that here  the person making the accusation is also automatically both
> > the prosecuting  attorney and the defendant in an inevitable
> > counter-suit; this is a heavy  burden, and a serious disincentive to
> > "get involved".