[Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart

[FT2]

To clarify/correct this - the idea was not that they can be "given the role
of" resolving disputes. Rather, their conduct in helping (as ordinary
editors) to resolve disputes, can be relied upon.

They will follow (as editors) dispute resolution, focus on project-related
issues, look at the topic neutrally, ask about policy related issues, be
fair and courteous, etc.

FT2


On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru>wrote:

> > Are you suggesting something like a second, parallel arbcom if the
> > first has finally stalled?
>
> This was also a part of the discussion of the Quality Taskforce/Strategy
> mentioned earlier by FT2 in this thread. One of the ideas of getting the
> "trusted editor" status, whatever it means and whatever are the criteria to
> get it (if I remember correctly, we never came down to such details) was
> that these trusted editors can resolve disputed related to content (POV
> etc), whereas the arbcom role is to resolve conflicts between users. These
> are two different issues and require two different (possibly overlapping)
> sorts of arbitrators: to fix the POV or BLP issue one has to be experienced
> in writing Wikipedia articles, whereas to solve for instance a personal
> conflict one has to be a good mediator but not necessarily a good article
> writer.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
>