On 10/6/05, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Turley wrote:
There are a lot of current administrators that I've either voted to support, or simply refused to vote oppose in their RfA that I would never consider supporting in the position of an arbitrator. If I'd thought that one future day they'd get handed the authority to arbitrate in any way stronger than they now can (by blocking, page locking, etc) it would certainly have been less "no big deal" and a lot more "let's screen these people very carefully".
All right, then. How would you suggest we choose them?
- Ryan
I can see something like the current Mediation Committee request process working: a sort of unstructured request, with general agreement from the community and no veto by the arbcom, to form a pool of people to draw from.
I do think as some others have that not every suitable admin would be a suitable arbitrator/magistrate/clerk -- though quite a few would. It's a few additional skills and a more specific sort of personality required.
-Kat [[User:Mindspillage]]
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