[Foundation-l] CheckUser (thoughts)

[Kelly Martin]

On 4/22/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at 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