The language now reads, "When a Wikipedia administrator discovers an instance where a block was made without appropriate reference to the Wikipedia:Blocking policy, they may reverse the block but should post a note on the offending Wikipedia administrators talk page explaining why the block was reversed."
Fred
From: Finlay McWalter finlay_wikipedia_94ac@mcwalter.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 01:22:23 +0100 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Blocking policy
I agree entirely with Rick. A policy is anything that affects future conduct by parties unrelated to the matter before the AC. Fred's original posting read "...It would require any administrator...". The AC has no powers whatever to make requirements of the conduct of "any" wikipedian.
This is clearly either policy making or policy clarification, neither of which the AC is constituted to do. If a policy requires clarification then only the body of the wikipedia may do so. The AC is not a court; its decisions do not constitute jurisprudence.
Please don't get me wrong: I understand its members do a thankless, unpleasant task, dealing calmy with those many of us would gladly see (metaphorically) hang. But this is clearly policy making, and that's not the AC's job.
FIn
Rick wrote:
OK. I said that for the arbitration committee to try to make policy is outside the scope of their charter. I was told that they were not making policy, they were only pointing to it. They are trying to require sysops to point to a policy page when they block a user. When I asked where the policy is that says that a sysop has to do that, you say that this is not a policy, but what is proposed. Therefore, my original point stands. The arbitration committee is trying to create policy, and this is outside of the scope of their charter, and therefore what they're trying to do is unacceptable.
RickK
Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote: It has not been, but that is what is proposed.
Fred
From: Rick giantsrick13@yahoo.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:09:19 -0700 (PDT) To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Blocking policy
When has it ever been policy that a sysop must point to a policy page when blocking a user?
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