There's something in what you say, but ArbCom are, when all is said and done, one of very few ways of actually getting anything done on the English Wikipedia.
I take it you object to the fact that "They give a lot of leeway to long term trolls yet they do not give a fraction of that to good standing users." Now, I agree, and they should start banning long-term trolls. Who, I wonder, would be first up against the wall were that to happen?
That apart, the ArbCom is far from perfect, as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dbachmann#on_the_arbcom shows very nicely.
CM
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:32:13 +0200 From: wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee
Is there any point why we even have arbcom? They do not seem to be doing much of resolving disputes lately. Granted they accept cases and close them. But by the time case is closed very little of the dispute is been resolved. Often disputes continue as if the RFAR wasn't filed.
They often do not respond to inquires in a timely fashion or at all. They ignore evidence or at least make statements that are directly contradicted by hard evidence. The remedies they pass generally are common-sense statements and nothing more. For example, they will say that meatpupperary is disruptive but they will not pass remedies in prevention of it.
They are not fair. They give a lot of leeway to long term trolls yet they do not give a fraction of that to good standing users. For example they will decline a case if is is not adequately engulfed in disruption. If you want your case to be heard by arbcom you need to be revert waring left right or else you will not be given much attention even if you exhaust dispute resolution.
Maybe it is time to dissolve arbcom.
- White Cat
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