User:Arcticocean/Garden of Eden

I occasionally use this page to document comments by other editors that I find especially profound, pertinent, or incisive. I also use the first section for a personal to-do list, the outdatedness of which is almost guaranteed.


 * To-do

The following are my general aims, adapted from my committments in my nomination statement and Q&A responses at WP:ACE2011, and some other notes:


 * 1) Principles that are obvious or that are irrelevant to the rationale for the decision must not be included in a final or draft decision. Bloated decisions are not useful decisions.
 * Perpetual/ongoing
 * 1) Public discussions for non-private matters: Public mailing list, an "arbitration discussion" space, or something similar.
 * Pending - BASC thread
 * 1) Liaising with the WMF: Further to the Foundation's new Terms of Use and the creation of the ArbCom-WMF Liaison position, look at ways to hand over responsibilities to the Office. ArbCom is a DR body, but has to do much non-DR stuff.
 * Backburner/on hold
 * 1) Motions: Overuse of on-wiki motions instead of full cases leads to rushed decision-making and makes it much harder for the parties to submit their views.
 * Perpetual/ongoing
 * 1) Periodic reviews of committee performance: a dedicated Feedback space could do the trick.
 * Backburner/on hold
 * 1) Workshops are sideshows that receive little arb input, although this varies with personalities and approaches to working, and moreover has improved lately.
 * Perpetual/ongoing

Last update: AGK   [• ]  15:25, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Garden of Eden
From User talk:Iridescent/Archive 10:

Written by User:Iridescent on 22:22, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Checkuser is not magic pixie dust
From Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Checkuser requests:

Date of writing unknown.

BLPs and sourcing
Jimmy Wales on wikien-l in May 2006

Adminship as a trophy
Antandrus in his excellent observations on Wikipedia behaviour

For all users
Antandrus in his excellent observations on Wikipedia behaviour

Article-writing
Buggie111 in a April 2011 editorial for WP MilHist

Professionalism
User:Kirill Lokshin in his essay on professionalism

Speculation
User:Durova in a comment on the administrators' noticeboard

We are not Congress
User:Essjay in a comment on the administrators' noticeboard

The problem with the Arbitration Committee
This is perhaps the most well-reasoned (and entertaining) critique of the Arbitration Committee that I have read yet:

User:HJ Mitchell in a comment on Jimbo's talk page

Another problem with the Arbitration Committee
Related to the immediate above:

User:Sandstein in the same thread

On 'requests for comment'
As the act of disputants asking a non-expert outsider to the topic area to help them resolve a dispute, not as the act of using Wikipedia's "RFC" system:

User:Steve Smith's amusing apostrophe (which can be read in full on his userpage) about his departure from ArbCom and decision to return to editing