Fred Bauder wrote:
The only reason the current Arbitration Committee does not consider content is because we believe there is a community consensus that we should not. We do, in effect, consider content when the problem is aggressive POV editing, but as to deciding the essential nature of gravity we might be out of our depth. It is ok for Lieutenant Commander Data to throw about talk about gravitons but there are necessarily limits. However an editor who claims Scotland in Asia, that we might be able to deal with. As to whether Mongolia is in Central Asia or East Asia, well the problem is really with the editors who thinks it's important enough to revert over and over and over and over.
A natural consequence of allowing the Arbitration Committee seriously consider contents would be ArbCom elections based on such issues as where one stands in the Israel/Palestine conflict. Voting is no way to arrive at neutrality. To the extent that the content review is acceptable as with a discussion of Scotland's place in Asia the members of the ArbCom need a keen ability to distinguish between gravitons and levitons.
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