From: "Jimmy Wales" jwales@bomis.com
However, and I think that Alex and I agree much more than my rant yesterday would suggest, I really want to make sure that our putting in place a process does not give rise to anyone thinking that they suddenly have new legal rights to edit the Wikipedia website, regardless of the wishes of the other users, or regardless of the final decision of the Wikimedia Foundation.
As my detailed rant reply to your rant states is that yes, we do agree and no we are not granting new rights by having an arbitration type procedure that deals with cranks who are disrupting the collaoborative nature of the Wikipedias and their communities of user/volunteers.
Actually I am all for limiting the rights to access to Wikipedia because that will make it easier for more people to contribute and will hopefully cut down on the time that those of us who would like to contribute more seem to be spending on these policy issues.
Alex756