[WikiEN-l] Rules, expertise, and encyclopedic standards

Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Tue Mar 8 20:15:45 UTC 2005


Daniel Mayer wrote

> It would be absurd to
> put a person through the current ArbCom for one set of offences, and
through
> this proposed committee for another.

Yes, double jeopardy is not so good, viewed in the light of natural justice.

If it turns out that expertise in editing behaviour is fairly much a unitary
thing (as seems quite plausible), while expertise in evaluating content is
more decentralised, then some less tidy or hybrid system may have to be the
long-term answer, I suppose.

Charles





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