From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Garion1000
On 1/24/06, Ilya N. ilyanep@gmail.com wrote:
Allow me to be the first to congratulate the new Arbitrators.
Or offer sympathy. :)
But yes, congratulations.
Garion (just browsed through some arb cases)
Congratulations to the appointees. May you be blessed with wisdom, justice and the good will of the community.
The notes of commiseration and sympathy ring far too true, and I wonder if there is anything that can be done to reduce the stress level on our senior magistrates.
I note that High Court judges have assistants and staffs to help them perform their work, and I wonder if something of the same sort could be implemented here. Perhaps long-serving admins could be appointed to serve as assistants for the ArbCom members, doing research and presenting summaries, dealing with correspondence, maintaining and archiving pages and so on - the sort of administrative work that requires knowledge and experience, but does not intrude on the duties of the members. Or perhaps a senior admin could be appointed to each case as an administrative assistant on a rotational basis.
I say this, knowing that I have been guilty of adding to the stress and workload of the Arbcom in the past, and for those sins I am heartily sorry.
Peter (Skyring)