On 25 July 2012 23:12, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
It should be kept in mind that the en:wp arbcom is pretty much batshit insane these days.
Your personal disagreement with them does not equate to being "batshit insane". The reality is that any group exhibiting that tendency wouldn't survive within wikipedia political environment while in a position to wield power for any non trivial length of time. Furthermore a fair chunk of them were elected as recently as this year with more vote than WMUK has memebers which is not really something someone exhibiting features of "batshit insanity" would be able to pull off.
Hooking WMUK's fortunes to said body strikes me as ill-advised.
It really matters very little as long as the ban holds (and so far there is no evidence that it won't; I've seen community overturns of arbcom decisions they involve more than a few talk page comments an attack on the signpost and a rather meta thread at the village pump). My arguments apply pretty much regardless of the banning mechanism (well other than an WP:OFFICE).