Andrew Whitworth wrote:
I know
Wikibooks is not Wikipedia, but the policies simply
havn't been established at all for Wikibooks on this topic.
If this case wasn't happening, what do you think are the odds that the
wikibooks community would accept an Arbcom, or create a policy on the
matter? If you look through the list of rejected policies (you can
find them on [[WB:PAG]]) you will see that the community has already
rejected a proposed creation of a mediation committee (which is far
less imposing then an arbitration committee). Using arbitration in
this case is essentially an attempt to shotgun the creation of such a
mechanism into practice, when the community at large generally doesnt
need or want it.
Part of the reason for the rejection was that so many policies have been
discussed, that many people (myself included) felt that we didn't need
to create more policies just for the sake of having policies. The
arbitration policy that was originally proposed was quite complicated.
I'm still not sure if Wikibooks has enough users to justify a full
standing ArbCom at the moment, although there do appear to be enough
administrators who are active that such an ad-hoc group could be put
together if the situation is warrented. The final wording of the policy
at [[Wikibooks:Ad hoc administration committee]] is more common sense
anyway, and not necessarily something that needs to be stated as a
formal policy in order to be effective.
BTW, this is a far cry from the position we had on Wikibooks about a
year and a half ago, when there was effectively only a single active
administrator for the whole project. That we are talking about
administrators with significant differences of opinions here and
multiple admins, with users who aren't even administrators but are none
the less very active Wikibookians is a very pleasant situation to be in
all around. [[Special:Log/rights]] shows a huge growth of Wikibooks
from the prespective that we are finally able to get some decent
infrastructure into the Wikibooks project that has been been missing
from when it first started.
Wikibooks is also growing to the point that I don't necessarily know
each of the active users that are now participating. The days of
reading the recent changes log just to see if anybody cared to
contribute to Wikibooks are now over. That is now a firehose of
information.
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Robert Scott Horning