From:
charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com
To: wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:12:07 +0100
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Arbcom
Christiano Moreschi wrote
The arbitration process is currently in a state
of fairly major meltdown. COFS sat there for well over 2 months, and it took so long one
remedy had to be scrapped as it became irrelevant.
It was being discussed.
Attempts to get it closed earlier were made.
You may have tried to get it closed earlier. I know this quite well. The point is that
you failed. Miserably.
> Allegations of apartheid is still there,
still split, a collective monkey on everyone's backs. Bharatveer, an open-and-shut
case if ever there was one, is just sitting there. SevenofDiamonds is split and seems to
be going nowhere. Attack sites seems dead in the water.
You are not being fair about "attack
sites". If the issue were trite, why would so much discussion result? And the monkey
is on the Arbitrators' collective back.
So much discussion? Why? Because people are idiots. As a community, we clearly need some
resolution to the matter of attack sites. And yes, it is a trite issue: how hard can
"link to reliable sources, but nothing else (and god help you if you break this
rule)" be?
Charles
Fine, then. Deny the problem. Collective unrest will grow, and when the ArbCom commands
no respect heaven only knows what chaos will result.
Moreschi
To be honest I don't think we are miles away from the situation where
Arbcom loses most of the respect it has (still) got. I think that if
things carry on like they are, a "state of fairly major meltdown" is
possibly on the cards.
does not look very
positive, lots of disagreed voting, not much closing. As for fixing it,
bigger ArbCom sounds good to me. I don't think the admins can be trusted
enough!
GDonato