James Forrester wrote:
On 3 October 2011 15:37, Bob the Wikipedian
<bobthewikipedian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Wait, so someone pulling [[WP:DICK]] on someone
else is something I
can take to Arbcom? Arbcom is gonna be pretty busy if I start
reporting every time I see it done....and I can't see it going very
far with Arbcom or with AN/I....considering how many people back it
as one of the "three most important principles of Wikipedia"-- which
I disagree with entirely....
When we founded ArbCom it was entirely with user disputes in mind. I'd
be disappointed and surprised if poor user behaviour wasn't dealt with
by the current Committee, but if you don't do anything about it and
call people on their poor behaviour when you see it, it'll never
improve.
J.
That's an entirely different proposition from merely being vindictive for
its own sake, which seems to be the current modus operandi of ArbCom.
"Calling people on their poor behaviour" may be a function of ArbCom, but
only when all other avenues have been exhausted, including RfC, and only
when there is no plausible route to rehabilitation, including (but not
limited to) friendly advice, a break from adminning to recover from the
stress (which, to be honest, might well include death threatson one's own
Talk page), or even a temporary desysop in the interests of the admin. Tell
me, when did ArbCom last take that position, and actually realise that
volunteering to improve Wikipedia, whether by adding content, or dealing
with vandalism, or otherwise applying WP policies, is to be appreciated
rather than castigated? Clue:Never, in my experience, and certainly not
recently. ArbCom is a ramshackle, unaccountable shed, which should be torn
down and rebuilt from scratch, if not cast permanently into the "not fit for
purpose" dustbin. It's a disgrace as it is now.