On 21/03/07, Stephen Bain
<stephen.bain(a)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?
Right. I still retain the right to pardon people who are banned by the
ArbCom. I have never done this, and am unlikely to do so. But I think
it a valuable safety valve in case the ArbCom somehow begins to go
radically against community consensus in some particular case. Unlikely.