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

Mon Mar 7 15:26:24 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:

> The arbcom is empowered to make such decisions.  There is no issue that I
> can see here, except for those who want editors to be free to complain
> about other editors without suffereing the consequences of their own
> behavior where this has been deleterious to Wikipedia.
> It's all a matter of what you think arbcom is for. Is it to be a catspaw
> with which adept procedure-manipulators can wage war on their less adept
> enemies, or is it (as I believe to be the case) a body elected by the
> editors and delegated by Jimmy Wales to stop editors doing harm to
> Wikipedia by their actions?  If the latter, it should levy penalties to
> all who merit such penalties.  If it only ever penalizes the people
> nominated by the petitioners, then it can only ever be driven by the
> perceptions of, and the prejudices of, the cleverer, more adept, editors.

I believe that's the longer form of what I meant when I said "you greatly
underestimate the propensity of our more antisocial editors for gaming
the system" ;-)

- d.