[WikiEN-l] Arbitration committee term lengths

[Charles Matthews]

David Gerard wrote

> A certain thickness of skin would pretty much be a requirement for the
job.

I hope that all the successful candidates, who have had  support across the
community of Wiki-en, will also be supported by others now that a very open
and democratic election process has proceeded to a conclusion.  There seems
no reason to doubt that as an institution it is, roughly speaking, what
Wiki-en wants, and that the elected members are there because their general
take on policy matters has a broad consensus behind it.

I think the corollary to allowing wide freedom to comment in the public life
of the community, in the elections, is that the thickness of required skin
should not be constantly called upon in the day-to-day work of the ArbCom.

Charles