James,

If you're interested in starting a broader discussion about the usefulness of arbcoms and alternatives to them, and the relationship of Jimbo to arbcoms, I think the best place to do that is at Meta. There have also discussions there about asking for some kind of outside intervention in the Russian Wikipedia due to infighting there, so your request for this kind of discussion already has a parallel on Meta. But the consensus seems to be that outsiders shouldn't overrule the decision of a project's arbcom. I think it would take a significant Meta RFC to come up with a mechanism that changes this situation, and right now I think that's highly unlikely. If you are dissatisfied with a decision made by ENWP Arbcom and you think that the constitutional arrangements for ENWP Arbcom should be changed, I think you are best served by having that discussion on ENWP and/or on the ENWP email list. This is a long way of saying that I agree with Maria and Risker. I feel that the tone of Risker's first email should have been more respectful, but I also understand that Risker and Arbcom probably get an endless series of complaints and keeping one's composure in that situation can be difficult.

Pine