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

[Ray Saintonge]

Stephen Bain wrote:

>On 3/21/07, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 3/20/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>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).
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>>Its important to understand that Jimbo has a well defined
>>discretionary powers over the ArbCom. He has never used them though,
>>just as the Queen of England has never "disbanded Parliament".
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>And indeed, a constitutional monarchy is the best analogy for the
>English Wikipedia at the moment.
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Charles I discovered the hard way that there are limits to monarchy.

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