The Arbom is thinning because its been stretched--same
with the MC. Making a separate NPOV committee for
handling specifically npov issues would save work for
both AC and MC, and would be a natural and responsive
expansion of the committee model to focus on an
extremely important aspect.
As I understand it, BDFL approval is required to form
a new formal committee, though in the interests of
responsiveness, that too might need some abstraction.
SV
--- Skyring <skyring(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/22/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>
wrote:
This is an absolutely horrible job, guaranteed to
earn you general
condemnation for being both a wimp and a tyrant,
and I most sincerely
apologize to the poor victims I am pulling into
our service here.
It isn't wimp/tyrant from where I sit. It's that
stressed people don't
perform well. Good editors don't necessarily make
good arbitrators and
if you force people to do what they aren't good at
and put a lot of
pressure on them, you are asking for trouble.
An ArbCom decision should be the result of
understanding the issues
and reaching a fair decision. Not finding an easy
way out and rushing
off to the next case.
The system needs changing. Who'd want to be an
ArbCom member if the
certain result is a LOT of hard work and stress?
Here's a thought. Draft a random bunch of admins to
investigate a
case. Give them temporary IDs so they can be
anonymous if they want.
They can do all the hard work and come up with a
summary of evidence,
consensus view on points of difference and
agreement, possible
solutions. The ArbCom can then review the case once
it's prepared in a
reasonably professional manner.
This would shift a lot of the work to editors
willing and able to do
it, and the ArbCom can then function in a role more
suited to
management and arbitration, rather than wading
through a morass of
claims and counterclaims, diffs and so on.
--
Peter in Canberra
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