[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Commitee Seeking Comment

[Rebecca]

On 6/10/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Exactly. All I want are groups of people that the ArbCom can consult to help it
> determine just who is and is not following our content-related policies like
> NPOV and NOR. Going back to an old example; I simply don't know enough about
> advanced mathematics to know if a person is pushing a POV in that area or is
> engaging in original research except in the most blatant of cases. It would
> help arbitration a great deal if the ArbCom could ask a panel of non-involved
> and vetted users who *could* tell one way or the other.

You mistake what I'm saying. Take the climate change dispute as an
example. We *could* solve the dispute by getting in an advisory
committee to tell us who is pushing a POV (which would indeed be
helpful as we currently do things); but we would still be having to
resolve the dispute - even though it involves some long-standing and
generally perfectly good contributors - with punitive measures. It's
this that I really don't like - I maintain that unless someone is a
serious pest, we shouldn't be hearing their case in the first place.

-- ambi