On Monday, December 13, 2004 5:05 PM, wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org <> wrote:
I recently stumbled across [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/HistoryBuffEr_and_Jayjg/E vidence/Full_version]], and ... wow! I've neither knowledge of this dispute nor any great ideas on how Wikipedia should do arbitration, but I think this 500k page is one of the most mind-boggling -- and disturbing -- artifacts I've yet come across on Wikipedia ;-)
Yeah. This is, I think, the largest evidence page that we on the Committee have had to put up with, but, I'm pretty sure, not the least comprehensible. The vastness, however made it useless, and Fred's suggestion of limiting evidence to 500 words seems to be a very good one.
(Sorry, I don't really have a point, I just needed to voice a "wow".)
This might give some idea of what we Arbitrators have to go through to vote on cases, and hopefully an (or, at least, some) understanding of why cases can take so long. Throwing more active Arbitrators at the problem (and I look forward to serving with the others, assuming I get elected to be re-appointed - and if you haven't voted yet, please do, because the larger the number of votes case, the clearer the community's mandate for our work) doesn't make such issues go away, nor speed their digestion up significantly.
--Matt
[[User:Matt Crypto]]
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Yours,