Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/21/07, stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
He can void the ArbCom, in whole and in part, including the status of its members and its rulings. I don't see how a list can make that any more explicit.
Does he have any other explicit extraordinary powers?
I can fly, but not in the presence of kryptonite. :)
It has generally been accepted that I can engage in emergency desysoppings and refer cases directly to the ArbCom.
I think the limits on my power are quite a bit unknown for a few reasons, mainly that I really don't exercise power all that much, ever, and so most questions of what I could do just simply don't come up. And passing a priori laws against me seems rather injudicious since our community institutions are all quite carefully limited for good reasons in an effort to create an atmosphere of calm loving respect.
I have no intention of doing anything unusual at all.
I have long suspected that Brits implicitly get the governance model here better than Americans do. I think we Americans tend to want an a priori constitution which defines everything, and we pretend that "convention" in the British sense doesn't play a role in our government (though it does).
In the current case of WP:ATT, I consider my action to be nothing more than the sort of "delaying" action that the House of Lords can take in some cases in the UK. I want us to really consider this major policy shift via a wide-ranging discussion, and an actual measurement of consensus, and an actual final point so that whatever is implemented, is implemented with certainty, and there can be no cries that a tiny cabal of editors lurking behind the scenes changed everything.
--Jimbo