I don't really agree. It isn't wrong to consider people's past or private life, if, in fact, it is relevant. That may be hard to determine in a particular case, especially when slogans such as "interfering with the administration of justice" are being thrown around. Not paying costs for transporting and housing a witness in an ethics proceeding is a serious matter considered from the perspective of a court, but hardly relevant to Wikipedia. Aggressive and systematic point of view editing over a period of years, accompanied by bad faith denial, is a serious matter considered from the point of view of Wikipedia. I think we need to be able to talk about whatever someone considers relevant with respect to both candidates and existing arbitrators.
With respect to CheeseDreams and her discovery of my legal problems, I can understand that upon this discovery she felt she had hit the jackpot and all her troubles would go away once she knocked her tormentor out of the matter. The problem is, she is involved in an Arbitration case due to the complaints of a number of people which resulted from a number of actions she has taken. Trying to change the focus won't work, even dropping the case wouldn't work as the underlying problem would continue to manifest. Most of the arbitration proceedings only happen after many attempts to somehow resolve matters at a lower level and indefinitely continuing with the status quo becomes very difficult.
Fred
From: "JAY JG" jayjg@hotmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:49:44 -0500 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Arbitration committee term lengths
My thoughts exactly. When you stand for election you do put yourself in the firing line. But as an arbitrator you are going to piss off a certain class of editor. Namely the people up before the AC. These people are somewhat likely to be the sort to be, how shall I put it? - vocal in condemnation of you. You need to be able to take, insults and abuse in order to be an arbiter.
Theresa
Oh, don't get me wrong - I realise that some thickness of hide is needed. I'm a big girl, and I can take that sort of stuff. But I think much of the crap that was thrown during the election process stepped well over the line.
-- ambi
And the witchhunt that's been going on recently with an existing ArbCom member is way, way over the line.
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