If you take a look at the actual arbitration request I filed on WP:RfAr, you'll see that I suggested that this situation be handled by the arbitrators simply saying that they confirmed the emergency desysopping, and that a full-fledged, formal arbitration case didn't seem necessary under the circumstances. The arbitrators so far have accepted this suggestion. Thus, I think we have sustained the principle of how desysoppings are to be handled while also being faithful to the idea of not bothering too much with process for process's own sake.
Newyorkbrad
On 4/20/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
It's a technicality, but I believe an important one. There has never been such a thing as a 'community de-sysopping' and creating such might be problematic.
If we were to institute such a thing, I believe it should be done with a bit more thought and discussion.
This is the kind of thing IAR is for - so we don't have to come up with detailed new rules to deal with situations that virtually never happen, we can just do the obvious thing and be done with it.
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