[WikiEN-l] The Wikipedia Ombudsman

[charles matthews]

"Fred Bauder" wrote


> Actually I think you kind of have this backwards. Usually an appeal  is 
> from a decision made by a specialized group to a larger group  which 
> represents broader community opinion. You have an appeal from a  pretty 
> large group to one person. How about appeals being to the  administrators 
> as a group? If there really is a consensus perhaps  some way could be 
> found to express it.

Looking at the section at [[Ombudsman]] on how the UK Parliamentary 
Commissioner works, in WP terms it would be something like this:

- investigation of 'unfairness'
- all applications must come through an admin
- no remedies offered, just the publication of a report.

Charles