Arbitrators active as of the opening of this case:
There are 10 active arbitrators and none are recused, so the majority is 6.
Morven, Raul654, and SimonP are inactive as of March 1, 2007. As Mackensen was appointed after the case was accepted, he is automatically listed as not participating unless he states otherwise. Thatcher131 18:11, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
It appears to me that the Return of access levels (last sentence) and the Reinstatement (either 4 or 4.1) principles are contradictory. If ArbCom does not vote on the issue of whether controversial circumstances exist, one principle assumes such circumstances exist by default, the other assumes such circumstances do not exist by default. NoSeptember 20:29, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I would strongly recommend that ArbCom reject principle #3 in favor of #3.1, proposed by User:Flcelloguy, per reasons that I've just stated at /Workshop. I request that the Arbitrators reconsider their support of a blanket ban of references to a particular website, and rather that they be guided by the more general principle that harassment is unacceptable, no matter what its source. I would be happy to answer any questions about my reasons for this recommendation. Thank you for your consideration. - GTBacchus( talk) 21:33, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Re: rollback: is the committee really prepared to place such strict limitations on rollback? They seem to be beyond any existing explicit or de facto policy, and are in my view unnecessarily restrictive. For example, rollback is often used to revert a large number of edits based on an honest mistake, with no suggestion of an accusation of disruption. The current sentence at Help:Reverting#Rollback reads, "If you use the rollback feature for anything other than vandalism or for reverting yourself, it's polite to leave an explanation on the article talk page, or on the talk page of the user whose edit(s) you reverted." This is a clearer, fairer, and more practicable directive than banning rollback used for non-vandalism altogether. Chick Bowen 21:03, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
In the current voting, the committee is unanimous in determining certain facts about background to the question on the Werdna RfA, but badly split on the conclusions to be drawn from those facts, and no one has proposed a remedy based on any of them. It may be better not to include any findings in the final decision if no conclusions are going to be reached. This was a relatively unusual situation and if a decision with some precedential value for the future isn't going to be reached, there seems to be little reason to publicize it further. Newyorkbrad 19:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm dissapointed that none of the reasonable proposed paroles ( [1], [2]) were even placed at Proposed Decision for voting, however I'm pleased that the arbitrators didn't completely exonerate Philwelch. Dionyseus 19:49, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Arbitrators active as of the opening of this case:
There are 10 active arbitrators and none are recused, so the majority is 6.
Morven, Raul654, and SimonP are inactive as of March 1, 2007. As Mackensen was appointed after the case was accepted, he is automatically listed as not participating unless he states otherwise. Thatcher131 18:11, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
It appears to me that the Return of access levels (last sentence) and the Reinstatement (either 4 or 4.1) principles are contradictory. If ArbCom does not vote on the issue of whether controversial circumstances exist, one principle assumes such circumstances exist by default, the other assumes such circumstances do not exist by default. NoSeptember 20:29, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I would strongly recommend that ArbCom reject principle #3 in favor of #3.1, proposed by User:Flcelloguy, per reasons that I've just stated at /Workshop. I request that the Arbitrators reconsider their support of a blanket ban of references to a particular website, and rather that they be guided by the more general principle that harassment is unacceptable, no matter what its source. I would be happy to answer any questions about my reasons for this recommendation. Thank you for your consideration. - GTBacchus( talk) 21:33, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Re: rollback: is the committee really prepared to place such strict limitations on rollback? They seem to be beyond any existing explicit or de facto policy, and are in my view unnecessarily restrictive. For example, rollback is often used to revert a large number of edits based on an honest mistake, with no suggestion of an accusation of disruption. The current sentence at Help:Reverting#Rollback reads, "If you use the rollback feature for anything other than vandalism or for reverting yourself, it's polite to leave an explanation on the article talk page, or on the talk page of the user whose edit(s) you reverted." This is a clearer, fairer, and more practicable directive than banning rollback used for non-vandalism altogether. Chick Bowen 21:03, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
In the current voting, the committee is unanimous in determining certain facts about background to the question on the Werdna RfA, but badly split on the conclusions to be drawn from those facts, and no one has proposed a remedy based on any of them. It may be better not to include any findings in the final decision if no conclusions are going to be reached. This was a relatively unusual situation and if a decision with some precedential value for the future isn't going to be reached, there seems to be little reason to publicize it further. Newyorkbrad 19:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm dissapointed that none of the reasonable proposed paroles ( [1], [2]) were even placed at Proposed Decision for voting, however I'm pleased that the arbitrators didn't completely exonerate Philwelch. Dionyseus 19:49, 6 March 2007 (UTC)