[WikiEN-l] Arbcom

[Robert Rohde]

Part of the problem is that admins often act in situations where they are
seen as interested parties.  This is not suprising since they often choose
to focus on the problems in the areas on their watchlist.

If part of the solution to resolving more disuptes is to encourage admins to
be more bold, then it would be good to have a formal process for recruiting
truly uninvolved admins to make those decisions.  For example, grab an admin
working on political history for disputes over pop culture, etc.  Perhaps a
"disputes for admin intervention" page to describe the issue and request an
uninvolved admin investigation and ruling.

-Robert Rohde


On 10/15/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We already have a great many user complaints that admins are
> essentially invulnerable. This would greatly increase such
> dissatisfaction. We have whatever respect  we do have, because any
> user can after all make a direct complaint. Making it impossible would
> increase the existing feeling of class antagonism.
>
> On 10/14/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 14/10/2007, fredbaud at waterwiki.info <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Thomas Dalton [mailto:thomas.dalton at gmail.com]
> > >
> > > If we allowed admins to be a little more BOLD in their admin actions,
> > > then ArbCom (and a possible lower court) could simply become a review
> > > of individual admins.
> > > _______________________________________________
> > >
> > > The ArbCom would only address disputes between administrators. Never
> disputes between users or between users and administrators.
> >
> > That could work. Allow admins to handle disputes involving users, and
> > ArbCom just handles disputes between admins. If a user has a problem
> > with an admin, but can't get any other admin to support them, chances
> > are ArbCom would reject the case anyway.
> >
>
> --
> David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
>
> _______________________________________________
> WikiEN-l mailing list
> WikiEN-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
>