Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2016-02-03/Arbitration report


 * The 2016 Committee appears to be favoring the idea of dealing with matters as quickly as possible—for the first time in recent memory, Arbitration/Current is completely devoid of on-wiki arbitration proceedings. A notable event that's absent from this report was the way ArbCom handled the Future Perfect at Sunrise request, just barely declining the case by a vote of 6-7, favoring a motion instead by vote of 7-5. I suspect that had this been the 2015 Committee, we might very well be dealing with a full case right now. Mz7 (talk) 03:40, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I didn't know how to write up that request. I agree that a case should have been made. GamerPro64  03:57, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Yup, without a doubt. I am not one to readily and openly express misgivings about the mops, but I have to say it seems beyond question to my experience that Future Perfect and TheRamblingMan are amongst the most problematic admins we have had in many years, albeit in very different ways (one is horrifically uncivil but has never so much as twitched towards abusing his tools, whereas the other is generally fairly civil, but has shown a regular and increasing propensity for using their tools in and WP:involved manner to win disputes).  When those two began circling each-other, it was obvious that things were about to get really ugly for everyone in their general radius of operation, but the one silver lining that I could see to the situation was that ArbCom's bright light would inevitably be shown on the situation and the above issues hopefully addressed, by desysops if necessary.  I have to agree that the decline of this obvious case of a mutual display of conduct unbefitting two admins, which reflects very poorly on the admin corps and the community at large, can only really be explained by timidity in the new committee so soon after it's reconstitution.  More's the pity--who knows where this goes now...  S n o w  let's rap 08:23, 10 February 2016 (UTC)