[WikiEN-l] Re: Re: Re: Improving ArbCom's lot medium-term
David Gerard
fun at thingy.apana.org.au
Tue Jul 12 18:15:09 UTC 2005
Phil Boswell (phil.boswell at gmail.com) [050713 00:41]:
> "Kelly Martin" <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com>
> wrote in message news:bd4c411e05071206555cdd1908 at mail.gmail.com...
> > On 7/12/05, Phil Boswell
> > <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Maybe the ArbCom could "employ" some flunkies to janitorise the evidence
> > > and
> > > wrangle it into a standard, readable, format.
> > The idea of the ArbCom having a "special master" corral the evidence
> > into good order is a good one, but the problem is in finding people to
> > do that. Finding people who are willing to do such tedious work
> > without compensation and also disinterested in the matter _sub judice_
> > is very difficult -- even harder than finding good arbitrators.
> Then you want someone like me, but with more regular access and more spare
> time, who could give less than two hoots about who's involved but will
> happily wrangle data into a nicer shape because it hurts less to look at.
Heh - the volunteer efforts of people who like things ordered :-)
It will be of course *very* important not to tread on the toes of the
people who presented the evidence, if you're not presenting it on your own
behalf.
> Happily I have never yet been involved in anything like this, but IMNSHO
> almost the worst aspect is just how painful it is to try to figure out what
> happened when.
Um, yes.
- d.
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