On 4/22/06, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
The biggest problem with the English arbitrators is that due to the press of arbitration business they have little time to do justice to checkuser requests from other users. Access is vital to carrying out arbitration duties in some cases, however. One side effect is that some arbitrators have been drawn away from arbitration duties, perhaps for the good of the project as a whole, but drawn away nevertheless.
This is probably the reason why Essjay and myself do the bulk of the checkuser activities on enwiki.
Kelly