On 6/10/05, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
Exactly. All I want are groups of people that the ArbCom can consult to help it determine just who is and is not following our content-related policies like NPOV and NOR. Going back to an old example; I simply don't know enough about advanced mathematics to know if a person is pushing a POV in that area or is engaging in original research except in the most blatant of cases. It would help arbitration a great deal if the ArbCom could ask a panel of non-involved and vetted users who *could* tell one way or the other.
You mistake what I'm saying. Take the climate change dispute as an example. We *could* solve the dispute by getting in an advisory committee to tell us who is pushing a POV (which would indeed be helpful as we currently do things); but we would still be having to resolve the dispute - even though it involves some long-standing and generally perfectly good contributors - with punitive measures. It's this that I really don't like - I maintain that unless someone is a serious pest, we shouldn't be hearing their case in the first place.
-- ambi