From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Fred Bauder Sent: Monday, 9 January 2006 17:06 To: English Wikipedia Cc: Fred Bauder Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The Wikipedia Ombudsman
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.
An [[ombudsman]] isn't a judge or a government bureaucrat. An ombudsman is independent, not part of some appeals process or another knot of red tape. Nor do they have any special powers. Instead the function of an ombudsman is to investigate complaints and facilitate redress through existing channels.
Peter (Skyring)