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The arbitration committee's proposed rule include votes on acceptance of cases, including cases referred by the mediation committee. At least 4 arbitrators must accept jurisdiction. Now what happens to cases not accepted... depends on the nature of the problem. For example, the complaint that Anthony started a fork, likely to be not accepted because he broke no Wikipedia or indeed Wiki rule, nothing happens. Complaints considered too trivial, again nothing, but the parties might consider negotiation or mediation. Compaints that are too much for us to deal with would go to Jimbo.<BR>
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Fred<BR>
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<B>From: </B>Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <jheiskan@welho.com><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B>English Wikipedia <wikien-l@Wikipedia.org><BR>
<B>Date: </B>14 Mar 2004 14:37:58 +0200<BR>
<B>To: </B>English Wikipedia <wikien-l@Wikipedia.org><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [WikiEN-l] Root and Branch - it's the only way.<BR>
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<TT>Please, let us invest the Mediation Committee with an explicit <BR>
power of binding referral to the Arbitration Committee. No coming</TT> <BR>
<TT>back to the Mediation Committee, and asking: "Did you *really* try</TT> <BR>
<TT>mediation already?" If the Mediation Committee *independently* <BR>
decides that Arbitration is the way to go, they can initiate it on</TT> <BR>
<TT>their own say so, without the Arbitration Committee second <BR>
</TT></BLOCKQUOTE><TT>guessing the Mediation Committee.<BR>
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