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On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 22:44, Lee Pilich wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Hi everyone.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>The arbitration committee has "completed" its guidelines at </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_policy . "Completed" in </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>quotes because while everything that needs to be covered for us to function </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>probably is covered in one way or another, everything is still subject to </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>change, and everything will likely be tweaked as we deal with more cases, </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>gain experience and whatnot.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>If any of you plebs, I mean *non-abritrators*, want to look them over, </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>suggest changes, tell us we're idiots or whatever, then please do so </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>(preferably on the talk page). Then we'll have a simple yes or no vote </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>which everybody on the Wikipedia can take part in as to whether to accept </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>the guidelines or not (bearing in mind they're always subject to change), </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>and if the vote is yes and Jimbo doesn't object in any way, then we'll be </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>fully functioning (ie, not needing Jimbo to refer cases to us) and ready to </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>ban people willy-nilly (that's what we're for, right?).</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT SIZE="3"><TT>Not a moment too soon, but just in the nick of time!</FONT></TT>
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<FONT SIZE="3"><TT>J-V. Heiskanen</FONT></TT>
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