[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Commitee Seeking Comment

[Jack Lynch]

There does need to be some sort of final say on matters of NPOV and
opinion. Concensus cannot always be achieved, and many contentious
pages are controlled by a POV lobby which alert one another when a
vote w partican potential comes along.

Jack (Sam Spade)

On 6/5/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't judge the content, but the user conduct. If people keep editing
> without discussing it and trying to reach common ground, you can take
> the case because of conduct. It's the controversial cases in which
> large numbers of people disagree that are the problem. Unfortunately,
> those take time, and can't be properly handled by a small group of
> people (they're probably divided on it themselves).
> 
> --Mgm
> 
> On 6/4/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > Mark Pellegrini (mapellegrini at comcast.net) [050605 05:23]:
> >
> > > The Arbitration Committee is seeking public commentary and suggestions
> > > pertaining to an ongoing problem:
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/RFC
> >
> >
> > Everyone should read and consider this. We've had *lengthy* discussions on
> > this matter on wikien-l.
> >
> > Basically: most of the really poisonous arseholes have in fact been kicked
> > off en: Wikipedia, and when new ones show up they are ejected in reasonable
> > order. (In a lot of cases, it's not even reaching the AC as they're dealt
> > with as obvious vandals and trolls by WP:AN/I.) So now the AC is getting a
> > lot of grey-area cases that are really a proxy for a content dispute. What
> > to do about this?
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
> >
> >
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