[WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case about to close

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"John Lee" 

> I think there are actually good parallels here because just as
> Parliament can either incorporate the common law into statute law or reject
> it, the community can incorporate Arbcom interpretations of policy as
> binding policy themselves. 

They can. The point being that the AC cannot directly create the required consensus.

>The Arbcom has made policy; it's not policy that
> necessarily sticks (as I said above, some edicts are more widely-adopted
> than others), but it's still policy laid down by the Arbcom which the
> community decides to accept or reject.

Hardly. Sometimes, as here, we have gone through a genuinely dialectical process, and chopped out large bits that don't have proper backing even in the AC. But with the best will it is only a preliminary draft.

Charles

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