Talk:Arbitration Committee/Archives/2008

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Quick report on Dutch ArbCom

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The elections for the term starting 1 september 2008 have just been concluded. A central theme was how the five pillars relate to the work of the ArbCom. Over the past year there have been cases where users who raised problems in the Dutch Wikipedia by adding blatant nonsense, violating the No Original Research policy, etc, ended up before the ArbCom, with the ArbCom taking the position: "Keep up the good work. You others, leave him in peace."

Thus the question was raised if the candidates were in favor of the ArbCom taking the five pillars as a central consideration, in adjucating cases. Candidates took various positions on the matter; finally only those were elected who were opposed to the ArbCom even looking at the edits of a user in making a ruling on that user. - Brya 05:22, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

A minor update: after a long period of inactivity (no cases submitted) there are now developments. Over the past month 3 out of 7 arbitrators stepped down because of internal problems, which mostly were left unspecified. There are hints of revising either the rules governing the ArbCom or their internal pocedures (direction of changes thus far also unspecified). - Brya 08:12, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Further update

After a few years in which there was a slow but definite improvement in the quality of decisions taken by the Dutch ArbCom, there recently was a revision in the wording of the mandate of the ArbCom. In its new wording, the mandate emphasizes that the ArbCom should take its decisions with the aim of furthering the creation and maintainance of the encyclopedia, and should base its decisions on the policies and guidelines in place at the Dutch Wikipedia and those imposed by the WMF on all its projects.

This in contrast to the old wording which was focused on conflicts and which was read by some as to mean that the intent was for everybody to just get along in a jolly atmosphere. Hopefully the new wording will help the ArbCom to make decisions that contribute to creating as good an encyclopedia as can be expected. - Brya (talk) 07:10, 18 November 2012 (UTC)