On 4/22/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)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