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

Tue Mar 8 01:15:39 UTC 2005

Theresa Knott wrote:

> I agree. I came to the AC after it was formed and it's way of working
>
>was set. But personally i hate the jargon and the quasilegalistic way
>of working. I would like to go to the people concerned and ask
>questions "Why did you remove that chunk of text" "Do you regret
>calling him a shithead and have you said or done anything by way of an
>aplogy" "If you had to to it again, would you have handled it
>differently?" that sort of thing. I'd like things to be far more
>informal than they are at the moment, but i don't know how the
>community feel about that, and i don't want to break a process, that
>basically works (even though it has its faults)
>  
>
Isn't this why mediation and arbitration were planned as separate 
procedures.  Mediation should do what you suggest.  When a dispute is 
begun by someone intent on applying some kind of punishment the idea of 
finding a negotiated settlement on the article content has been pretty 
well abandoned.  Refusal to co-operate with mediation should be used 
against a participant who wants to go immediately to arbitration.

Ec