I think that is generally true, however I think we are right to look at the general pattern of the user's behavior. For example if one person is complaining about personal attacks we ought to take into consideration whether the user is making a lot of personal attacks against a lot of users. Another area that I think can be taken into consideration is actions that are taken during arbitration either towards the arbitrators or that affect the arbitration, deleting evidence or moving it all around.
Fred
From: AndyL andyl2004@sympatico.ca Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:16:38 -0500 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] ArbCom - too attached to 'equal treatment'?
My feeling is that it is not the place of the Arbcomm to effectively file a countersuit. If the respondent to a complaint, or anyone else, has a grievance against the complainant than let them file their own Request for Arbitration. The "terms of reference" if you like should be set in the RFA, if the arbitrators don't like them then they shouldn't sign on to the arbitration and if not enough arbitrators agree with the terms the arbitration will not get off the ground. It is quite inappropriate, I think, for the arbitrators to unilaterally expand the terms of reference to include issues not brought up in the initial request.
on 3/3/05 9:45 PM, Fred Bauder at fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
The reason I didn't recuse myself is because I am not prejudiced for or against you. I may have errored by examining issues that were outside the scope of the arbitration.
Fred