[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee

[Christiano Moreschi]

There's something in what you say, but ArbCom are, when all is said and done, one of very few ways of actually getting anything done on the English Wikipedia.

I take it you object to the fact that "They give a lot of leeway to long term trolls yet they do
not give a fraction of that to good standing users." Now, I agree, and they should start banning long-term trolls. Who, I wonder, would be first up against the wall were that to happen?

That apart, the ArbCom is far from perfect, as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dbachmann#on_the_arbcom shows very nicely.

CM


Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.

> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:32:13 +0200
> From: wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com
> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l]  Arbitration Committee
> 
> Is there any point why we even have arbcom? They do not seem to be doing
> much of resolving disputes lately. Granted they accept cases and close them.
> But by the time case is closed very little of the dispute is been resolved.
> Often disputes continue as if the RFAR wasn't filed.
> 
> They often do not respond to inquires in a timely fashion or at all. They
> ignore evidence or at least make statements that are directly contradicted
> by hard evidence. The remedies they pass generally are common-sense
> statements and nothing more. For example, they will say that meatpupperary
> is disruptive but they will not pass remedies in prevention of it.
> 
> They are not fair. They give a lot of leeway to long term trolls yet they do
> not give a fraction of that to good standing users. For example they will
> decline a case if is is not adequately engulfed in disruption. If you want
> your case to be heard by arbcom you need to be revert waring left right or
> else you will not be given much attention even if you exhaust dispute
> resolution.
> 
> Maybe it is time to dissolve arbcom.
> 
>   - White Cat
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