One thing to point out. Any Wikipedia user can become involved in any arbitration case by trying to figure out which events and evidence are significant and putting that information on the evidence page, or commenting on talk pages about those issues. Often our litigants throw a blizzard of stuff at us which is difficult to process.
If there is activity on the workshop page, where propositions are sometimes initially advanced, comment on those propositions are also helpful as an indication of community opinion.
Fred
On Sep 30, 2005, at 12:57 AM, Finne Boonen wrote:
On 9/30/05, Phroziac phroziac@gmail.com wrote:
Concur. On 9/30/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
Arbitration assistants have been talked about several times before. Can't see how it would be a bad thing, although the Arbs would be obliged to at least spot-check the assistant's findings for accuracy before relying on them.
What is the reason for the community service assignment? A lot of times you're supposed to do community service as a way to observe a group working together, or practice in working together. In just editing pages you don't see much of the inner workings of the group of core wikipedians, so helping out with arbitration might give you more of an insight.
Finne/henna
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