Fred Bauder wrote:
The only reason the current Arbitration Committee does
not consider content
is because we believe there is a community consensus that we should not. We
do, in effect, consider content when the problem is aggressive POV editing,
but as to deciding the essential nature of gravity we might be out of our
depth. It is ok for Lieutenant Commander Data to throw about talk about
gravitons but there are necessarily limits. However an editor who claims
Scotland in Asia, that we might be able to deal with. As to whether Mongolia
is in Central Asia or East Asia, well the problem is really with the editors
who thinks it's important enough to revert over and over and over and over.
A natural consequence of allowing the Arbitration Committee seriously
consider contents would be ArbCom elections based on such issues as
where one stands in the Israel/Palestine conflict. Voting is no way to
arrive at neutrality. To the extent that the content review is
acceptable as with a discussion of Scotland's place in Asia the members
of the ArbCom need a keen ability to distinguish between gravitons and
levitons.
Ec