On 8/27/07, FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
There is a delicate balance of interests in a debate like this.
First, some topics will /only/ be fully explored in private with trusted individuals, rather than the entire open community -- especially if there are seriously personal or admin/project reasons to consider. Office, OTRS, arb-email, checkuser, oversight... Wikipedia is far from completely transparent and this /already/ has a high degree of communal assent.
The problem is that in this case we are in effect asking the inner community to judge one of their own. So far their record in this area isn't great.
There are ways around this such as asking fr.arbcom to reivew the issues but that would tend to create language problems.