[WikiEN-l] Community Ombuds Department

[Geoffrey Plourde]

The Mediation Cabal has no power to intervene. Medcom is limited to dealing with cases where both parties agree and there are no investigative powers. Something must have gotten to the point where it is fairly serious for Arbcom even to look at it. 



----- Original Message ----
From: Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:13:29 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Community Ombuds Department

Does this not already exist with one our other dispute resolution avenues?

* Mediation Cabal? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal>
* Mediation Committee?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Committee>

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Arbcom is the place to go after the shit hits the fan, this is meant to be a intermediary before the shit hits the fan.
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>  From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:17:29 AM
>  Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Community Ombuds Department
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> On 13/03/2008, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  > At first, the pilot would run on Wikipedia, so people holding positions of authority.
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>  At the end of the day, that's ArbCom (there are various steps before
>  that, of course). Of course, there's no court of appeal if you
>  disagree with ArbCom (I think it's still on the books that you can
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> appeal to Jimbo, but that's only intended for exceptional
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> circumstances), but you have to stop somewhere.
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