Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/21/07, stevertigo <stvrtg(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
He can void the ArbCom, in whole and in part,
including the status of
its members and its rulings.
I don't see how a list can make that any more explicit.
Does he have any other explicit extraordinary powers?
I can fly, but not in the presence of kryptonite. :)
It has generally been accepted that I can engage in emergency
desysoppings and refer cases directly to the ArbCom.
I think the limits on my power are quite a bit unknown for a few
reasons, mainly that I really don't exercise power all that much, ever,
and so most questions of what I could do just simply don't come up. And
passing a priori laws against me seems rather injudicious since our
community institutions are all quite carefully limited for good reasons
in an effort to create an atmosphere of calm loving respect.
I have no intention of doing anything unusual at all.
I have long suspected that Brits implicitly get the governance model
here better than Americans do. I think we Americans tend to want an a
priori constitution which defines everything, and we pretend that
"convention" in the British sense doesn't play a role in our government
(though it does).
In the current case of WP:ATT, I consider my action to be nothing more
than the sort of "delaying" action that the House of Lords can take in
some cases in the UK. I want us to really consider this major policy
shift via a wide-ranging discussion, and an actual measurement of
consensus, and an actual final point so that whatever is implemented, is
implemented with certainty, and there can be no cries that a tiny cabal
of editors lurking behind the scenes changed everything.
--Jimbo