One of the things that will go on as we consider cases is that both the arbitrators and the mediators will be looking at Wikipedia policies, examining where they originated, (like who wrote the page, was it after a considered discussion on the talk pages and mailing lists, how much support particular policies have among the users, i.e. is the policy generally followed or ignored, etc.).
And of course the artitrators can sound off about policy, mediators can be in edit wars, Jimbo can edit all he wants, and like elephants we will never forget or give up on anything.
Fred
From: Anthere anthere8@yahoo.com Reply-To: anthere8@yahoo.com, English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:54:18 +0100 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Arbitration progress report #2
Do you suggest that any arbitrator have '''no''' right to participate to building policies from now on ?
I suppose that similarly mediators have no right to participate in edit wars from now on as well ?
Just as Jimbo has no right to edit articles ?
If so, we might just forget the whole process entirely.