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

Mon Mar 7 15:30:09 UTC 2005

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Fred

> From: "Tony Sidaway" <minorityreport at bluebottle.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:59:28 -0000 (GMT)
> To: <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] ArbCom - too attached to 'equal treatment'?
> 
> zero 0000 said:
>> Fred wrote:
>>> A full investigation will improve the quality of our decisions. A
>>> partial or
>>> poor investigation restricted by artificial rules will reduce their
>>> quality.
>>> It's pretty much summed up by "The more you know..."
>> 
>> I think you are missing the point.  I don't see anyone wanting to
>> limit the AC's ability to look wherever they like.  The issue is of who
>> they have the right to impose penalties on.
> 
> 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.
> 
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