The Arbom is thinning because its been stretched--same with the MC. Making a separate NPOV committee for handling specifically npov issues would save work for both AC and MC, and would be a natural and responsive expansion of the committee model to focus on an extremely important aspect.
As I understand it, BDFL approval is required to form a new formal committee, though in the interests of responsiveness, that too might need some abstraction.
SV
--- Skyring skyring@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/22/05, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
This is an absolutely horrible job, guaranteed to
earn you general
condemnation for being both a wimp and a tyrant,
and I most sincerely
apologize to the poor victims I am pulling into
our service here.
It isn't wimp/tyrant from where I sit. It's that stressed people don't perform well. Good editors don't necessarily make good arbitrators and if you force people to do what they aren't good at and put a lot of pressure on them, you are asking for trouble.
An ArbCom decision should be the result of understanding the issues and reaching a fair decision. Not finding an easy way out and rushing off to the next case.
The system needs changing. Who'd want to be an ArbCom member if the certain result is a LOT of hard work and stress?
Here's a thought. Draft a random bunch of admins to investigate a case. Give them temporary IDs so they can be anonymous if they want. They can do all the hard work and come up with a summary of evidence, consensus view on points of difference and agreement, possible solutions. The ArbCom can then review the case once it's prepared in a reasonably professional manner.
This would shift a lot of the work to editors willing and able to do it, and the ArbCom can then function in a role more suited to management and arbitration, rather than wading through a morass of claims and counterclaims, diffs and so on.
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