[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Commitee Seeking Comment

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

Well, that may be the case, but those being disadvantaged in content
cases are always going to claim such a committee is taking sides. How
exactly do you plan to bring together an impartial team to judge such
things.

Take for example the school issue. It's been dragging for a long time,
but I don't think making a decision can be reached at the moment which
both sides can be content with.

How would you deal with such a thing?

--Mgm

On 6/5/05, sannse <sannse at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> MacGyverMagic/Mgm 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).
> >
> 
> That's what we do at the moment, look at the conduct and leave the
> content to work itself out.  The question is whether we are missing the
> underlying problem by doing this.  Are we missing the frustrations that
> /lead/ to good people loosing their temper and acting badly?  And would
> it be better for there to be some other means, outside of the AC,  to
> solve these content disputes before that happens?
> 
> I have mixed feelings on all this - I see that there are problems, but
> am not fully convinced that the majority of them won't be fixed with a
> little time and a little faith in the good will of editors.  I'm not
> saying we ignore things until they go away, just that a proactive
> solution may give disputes an emphasis that might be harmful - maybe
> without intervention the eventualist approach will work in a lot of cases.
> 
> But that said, I realise we are in a whole new situation with the
> growing Wikipedia, and maybe what worked a year ago won't do so
> nowadays.  And content does seem to be the key issue in many disputes
> that we have looked at recently.
> 
> --sannse
> 
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