Fairness in Wikipedia - WikiEN-l

1 Apr 2007

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 07:42:46 +0200, "Andries Krugers Dagneaux"
&lt;andrieskd(a)chello.nl&gt; wrote:

...
 >One of the working principles of the arbcom is that
it
>does not want to be fair to editors, but to make decisions that will 
>help the project. 
...
 That's up there with "verifiability, not
truth".  It does not mitigate 
against the idea that there is a set of principles which enjoy broad 
support, and whose rejection tends to be connected with a short and 
turbulent life on Wikipedia.

Guy (JzG) 
That is not what I meant. I was topic-banned by the arbcom though my
edits on that topic ([[Sathya Sai Baba]]) were described as "generally
responsible" and I repeatedly but unsuccessfully requested diffs that
show that I broke Wikipedia policies or made disruptive or activist
edits. When I asked Flonight whether topic-banning in the absence of
such diffs was fair, I was told that the arbcom does not want to be fair
to editors. Charles Matthews endorsed her reasoning in this respect. If
that is the reasoning of the arbcom then I have no intention to be fair
to contributors in Wikipedia. 

Andries