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James Rosenzweig wrote:

what do we feel are legitimate grounds for recusal as an arbitrator, and what may a user legitimately demand to know about an arbitrator when the user is considering asking them to recuse?

I would say that if you've been involved personally in a dispute with someone, you should recuse from the case. Add to that I guess any case where you personally feel that either your own neutrality would be too difficult to sustain, or where there could be a significant appearance of impropriety.

I would suggest pretty strongly of course that ArbCom members try to be exemplars of kindness and thoughtfulness in day to day actions, so as to reduce any perception that you've got a vendetta or whatever. You in particular are *very very* good about this in my opinion. :-)

I think a very good example we can look to is that of James F, who has in his own words become "increasingly Wikignomic" in his editing over the past year. What this means is explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_gnome

What this means, in my opinion, because he's never said such a thing, is that he's better able to function as an arbitrator because he's basically been steering clear of the sort of edits that can land you in combat with the trolls and POV pushers. A wise way for an arbitrator.

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--Jimbo