On 13/01/2008, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
The devs only make these kind of changes if someone asks them to, so if the rule is made that only ArbComs (or crats/admins if there is no ArbCom) can make such requests then the devs don't have to check with anyone, they just have to verify that the person asking really is a member of the project's ArbCom, which isn't that difficult. It's certainly easier than trying to work out if there's a consensus for the change.
As far as I know, it is not a role of the arbcom to do such things. It looks weird to add new responsibilities.
The en:wp arbcom is not the government of en:wp - it's a body to resolve intractable interpersonal disputes. People keep wanting it to act as the government of en:wp, but it really isn't and can't be.
That said, it keeps getting other functions assigned to it - checkuser, oversight - because there isn't really any other group suitable for the job. This is likely to become another one, which is possibly not a good thing.
- d.