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(a)ctelco.net> wrote:
It has not been, but that is what is proposed.
Fred
From: Rick <giantsrick13(a)yahoo.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:09:19 -0700 (PDT)
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)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?
RickK
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