Charles Matthews wrote:
Therefore (Point Three) there really is a valid distinction, at this top level, between "policy" (read here "content policy") and "enforcement". In the big picture, what is allowed in Wikipedia, and what Wikipedia does about conformity to the content policy, are two different things. I see this getting lost in the second para above. The ArbCom are not "overturning" BLP as content policy. No such idea in the Arbitrators' heads.
There are policies about enforcement as well, though. Things like [[WP:3RR]] are policies not about content, but about how editors are expected to interact. The Arbitration Committee generally enforces such policies; it cannot create them itself.
-Mark