[WikiEN-l] Jimbo's political theory

[Fred Bauder]

One of the problems is that we can be really wrong, misunderstand what was
happening, mediation gives both parties a change to spend some time looking
into the dynamics of the situation without worrying about whether any
particular rule was broken, in fact, successful mediation amounts to a
pardon for both parties for rule infractions. Go to artibration and chances
are rules have been broken, sometimes by both parties. Right now most of the
arbitrators aren't really hanging judges, but that will change when someone
comes back and back and back to us.

Fred

> From: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:11:25 -0800
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Cc: wikien-l at wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimbo's political theory
> 
> Once a few people get visibly scr*w*d by arbitration decisions, I think
> others will be much more interested in mediation. One would imagine the
> random Wikipedian smart enough to understand that the arbitration
> committee's powers are considerable, and that they really really want to
> avoid its clutches, but it seems the more stubborn will have to "learn
> by doing". :-)
> 
> Stan