[WikiEN-l] Governance review

[stevertigo]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:04 PM, stevertigo<stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A review of governance on the English Wikipedia has been started here:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Governance_review

I think one of the main points to make is that in Arbcom's principles,
it is stated very clearly that they will explain every decision they
make. It has been made clear to me, by Fred, FloNight and others (each
in their own particular ways), that Arbcom, until currently, just
didn't feel they needed to do that - for various likely reasons:

Because they don't want to, they don't have to, they don't have time,
because other people are beneath them and need to be reminded of such,
because they don't want to prejudice content debates, or because that
would expose them as intelligent people who can only succumb to the
powers of reason and fact people such as myself wield. Theres one more
reason, but I just can't put my finger on it.

And not automatically treating everyone like they were So*og would be
nice too - would go a long way toward erasing this general,
widespread, "McArbcom" perception.

-Stevertigo