Governance review

[Thomas Dalton]

A review of governance on the English Wikipedia has been started here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Governance_review

The input of everyone with an interest in the project is welcomed and
encouraged. Please keep discussion on that page and its talk page and
subpages, please don't split the discussion by talking about it on
this list. Thanks!

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[stevertigo-2]

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

Oh, I get to take some credit for this, don't I?

-Stevertigo

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[Thomas Dalton]

2009/7/9 stevertigo <stvrtg@...>:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton@...> wrote:
>> A review of governance on the English Wikipedia has been started here:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Governance_review
>
> Oh, I get to take some credit for this, don't I?

I wasn't intending to assign credit.

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[stevertigo-2]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton@...> wrote:
> 2009/7/9 stevertigo <stvrtg@...>:

> I wasn't intending to assign credit.

I'm quite used to it.

-Stevertigo

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[stevertigo-2]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:04 PM, stevertigo<stvrtg@...> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton@...> 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

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