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

Mon Mar 7 20:40:45 UTC 2005

AndyL wrote:

>on 3/6/05 9:32 PM, David Gerard at dgerard at gmail.com wrote:
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>>AndyL wrote:
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>>>on 3/6/05 5:25 PM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge at telus.net wrote:
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>>>>Countersuits are a normal part of the civil judicial process, but not of
>>>>the criminal process.  They provide for the limited right of the
>>>>respondent to raise issues against his accuser.  It does not operate to
>>>>allow the court to initiate new complaints, nor does it allow for third
>>>>party meddling.
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>>>But it is not the court that initiates countersuits but the respondent.
>>>That's where we're getting it wrong.
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>>Let's get back to the point. You're so far not convincing me that your
>>model works better to get an encyclopedia written than the current one.
>>How does it better achieve that goal?
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>It wouldn't artificially discourage people from making legitimate complaints
>for fear that they too would be penalised or at a minimum tempbanned from
>editing an article until the hearing is complete. 
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The issue is a couple of steps removed from the ultimate goal of a great 
encyclopedia.  Badly behaved people of any kind are an impediment to 
achieving that.  Article material that is contrary to key rules is only 
one form of bad behaviour; persistent complaining about colleagues is 
another.

Ec