What's with the slowness? I know that ArbCom has always been a bunch of slowpokes, and that sometimes it takes a lot of thought to come to conclusion on a case - but does it really take 2 months to settle Allegations of Apartheid? There are cases where editors have allegations of being sockpuppets and the like made against them that have been open for over four weeks. One arb has been inactive since January. Proposals to help speed things along are met with very little discussion < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration#Propose.... And whilst the ArbCom (I'm assuming) deliberates in private the parties are left to agitate and argue amongst themselves on talk pages. What's the point?
On 10/14/07, Vee vee.be.me@gmail.com wrote:
What's with the slowness?
That's rather uncharitable. Investigating dubious editing can take a long time and the ArbCom inevitably get the most complicated and intractable cases. It may not always be possible to predict when one has the time to give to this unpaid and voluntary work.
Several Arbitrators are in academia where September and October is a very demanding time. More understanding should be shown.