[WikiEN-l] Fairness in Wikipedia

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"Andries Krugers Dagneaux" wrote

> >Editors from English--speaking and European countries do operate under
> >more or less the same ethical system, which promotes freedom and
> >fairness [..]
 
> That is untrue. One of the working principles of the arbcom is that it
> does not want to be fair to editors, but to make decisions that will
> help the project. This was explicitly written down by arbcom members
> Flonight and Charles Matthews. I hence decided to follow their example
> of not trying to be fair to others in Wikipedia.

Not too clever, really. And your formulation is not helpful. Sometimes ArbCom decisions are led by 'management' rather than 'judicial' considerations; but that's not to say Arbitrators want them lack in fairness. 

Charles

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