Yes - as I feel it is my role to be an advocate for someone who is on
probation, in my opinion is trying to make some good faith edits in
compliance with his probation (note on his Talk page my discussion with
him) and is simply being endlessly reverted by two people who appear to
disagree with his views.
If a person who is on ArbCom probation does the right thing (again,
IMO) and is not supported for doing the right thing, then there is
absolutely no incentive for that person to cooperate or continue
editing the encyclopedia - and the point of ArbCom probation, if I do
not miss my guess, is to correct someone who has made mistakes but
could otherwise be a valuable editor.
-Travis
FCYTravis @ en.wikipedia
On Nov 14, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
One problem that has emerged is that the assigned
person from the
mentorship committee can be easily drawn into becoming an advocate of
the user on probation. This recently happened in the case of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mentorship_Committee#Onefortyone
where one of the members of the committee ended up being banned for 24
hours for breaking 3RR
No one would be placed on probation by the arbitration committee if
there were not other users who had been complaining about their
behavior. Those parties can be expected to still be watching the
articles in question and to have strong opinions on the matter.
Fred