[Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

[Thomas Dalton]

On 23 April 2012 17:50, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am very surprised that it would require going through 600 emails to
>> find out how many cases the OC has dealt with over the past year. If
>> they don't have that information somewhere, then they can't have been
>> doing a good job. There is no way they can do their job properly
>> without knowing what cases they've received...
>
> I don't think your correlation is correct.  Simply because they have not
> maintained a list of case dispositions (not required or expected to this
> point, and more particularly very difficult to do when there's no
> confidential place for them to retain it) does not mean that they have
> failed to do the job properly.

How can you make sure you don't forget any cases if you don't keep a
record of them?