On 3/20/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
At English Wikipedia level, he has an informal
status as a leader
among the community. Historically - as a leader in the community - he
exercised various functions (arbitration, for example) until those
functions were delegated down (to the ArbCom, for example).
Its important to understand that Jimbo has a well defined
discretionary powers over the ArbCom. He has never used them though,
just as the Queen of England has never "disbanded Parliament".
And indeed, a constitutional monarchy is the best analogy for the
English Wikipedia at the moment.
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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com