[WikiEN-l] Just what *is* Jimbo's role anyway?

[James Farrar]

On 21/03/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:

> At English Wikipedia level, he has an informal status as a leader
> among the community. Historically - as a leader in the community - he
> exercised various functions (arbitration, for example) until those
> functions were delegated down (to the ArbCom, for example).

If he has delegated responsibility for them, that presumably means he
retains the authority to over-rule ArbCom's decisions?