As far as I'm concerned, there is no issue with the chair being banned, particularly by a body that has strayed so far from its remit as the enwiki ArbCom.
That committee levelled (or regurgitated) a series of allegations against Fae, and when it was pointed out that most of those either couldn't be proven or were outside of ArbCom's remit, they watered down the wording but not the sanction.
I am not about to pretend I always agree with Fae, nor defend everything he has done, but I would ask that those calling for his head remember that he was comfortably elected as a trustee at the last AGM,
unanimously elected chair by his fellow trustees, and uncontroversially (despite the best efforts of a small number of trolls to engineer a controversy after the fact) elected chair of the WCA. All while the issues surrounding Fae on enwiki were going on, and the last days before the conclusion of the "arbitration case" (read: show trial).
It would be a grave error for the WMUK board to allow its decision making to be dictated by the whims and fancies of ArbCom.
Fae has my full support, for whatever it may be worth, to remain as a trustee and as chair.
Harry Mitchell
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From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com>
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list
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Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2012, 12:15
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] The situation with the chair
On 26 July 2012 09:17, Jon Davies <
jon.davies@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> And to put this in a human context the board is without a chair on this
> issue as Fae is, quite properly, staying out of the discussions. This is
> making reaching a consensus quite time consuming.
Then, rather obviously, they need to appoint a temporary chair for
this discussion... I shouldn't need to point that out...
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