Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Policy/proposed amendment revote

message: The highlighting is now:
: The Arbitrators will accept a case if four or more Arbitrators have voted to hear it. The Arbitrators will reject a case if one week has passed without this occurring AND four or more Arbitrators have voted not to hear it. Individual Arbitrators will provide a rationale for their vote if so moved, or if specifically requested.
... to:
: The Arbitrators will accept a case if four or more Arbitrators have voted to hear it. The Arbitrators will reject a case if four or more Arbitrators have voted not to hear it. Individual Arbitrators will provide a rationale for their vote if so moved, or if specifically requested.
Shouldn't that be:
: The Arbitrators will accept a case if four or more Arbitrators have voted to hear it. The Arbitrators will reject a case if one week has passed without this occurring AND four or more Arbitrators have voted not to hear it. Individual Arbitrators will provide a rationale for their vote if so moved, or if specifically requested.
... to:
: The Arbitrators will accept a case if four or more Arbitrators have voted to hear it. The Arbitrators will reject a case if four or more Arbitrators have voted not to hear it. Individual Arbitrators will provide a rationale for their vote if so moved, or if specifically requested.
(Italics have been additionally bolded). It certainly confused me... -- grm_wnr          01:09, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  B1 - highlighting of changes 

message: Isn't there supposed to be some time for discussion rather than jumping straight into voting? At least four of these I've voted against could potentially be clarified in such a way that I'd vote for them.  Jamesday 13:07, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: What about discussion time?

message: "8. As a body reporting to the Wikimedia Foundation Board" and "which has the ability to direct the Committee to reach a verdict or otherwise act in a particular way". I'd be happy enough to vote yes on the related changes but not on these two. The arbcom is  responsible for implementing our policy and should be reporting to us, not the Foundation. While the Foundation can do what it likes with its computers, that's not the same as us having to agree and enforce those decisions for it if they are contrary to our policies. Up to the Foundation to persuade us to change them. Jamesday 13:24, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The wording of the question makes it appear that  both "The Arbitration Committee is a body that reports to the Wikimedia Foundation Board" and "the Board can direct the ArbCom to [...] act in a particular way" are statements about the already-existing environment in which the vote is taking place.  In other words, the question makes it appear as if the things Jamesday is objecting to are not changes to the policy, but are explanatory notes given as part of the reasoning for other changes to the policy (such as whether or not the ArbCom has jurisdiction over members of the Board). If these things actually are changes, then I object strongly to the phrasing of the question, which makes them look like already-existing conditions, and I would recommend that an entirely separate vote be taken on whether to add something like "The ArbCom reports to the Board" as a policy.  Please could we have some clarification.  —AlanBarrett 17:21, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: These should be voted on individually

message: May be i do not get the logic but how come we are voting on an amendment and an amendment to that amendment in the same vote. If the amendment does not pass will the ammendment to the ammendment pass, in which case it has obvious logical problems. Nothing has been written on the vote page for clarifying this. 
Also why A3 and A3.1 be combined into a single vote as either the sentence of A3 or the ammended sentence from A3.1. How is this different than the vote we are taking now. This can be done to most of the votes which have the same problem. kaal 06:22, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification

message: This entire vote is based on the concept that the Arbitration policy is a community policy - it isn't. What's commuity policy, currently, is to tackle conflicts by using a series of community steps culminating in using a non-community sourec - Jimbo, through his declared delegates, the Arbitration Committee. The point of the second ratification vote was to decide whether the community still wanted to use Jimbo's delegation in this way, which is why it was a unitary vote - Jimbo was changing the rules, the vote was not about whether the changes were good for the Committee (which is beyon the scope of the commuity) but good for the current dispute resolution process. The contents of the policy aren't the business of the community per se, and thus there really shouldn't be individual votes because such votes are wholly meaningless. James F. (talk) 10:39, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is all a hideous mistake 

message: When I come across a page like this and vote, my first instinct is to go with what my gut feeling tells me. I think that if you have votes like this, there should be official PRO and CON pages, which lay down the various articles. These should be presented very prominently. Right now I am abstaining from voting, because I really have no idea about what the effects of this might be. Jacoplane 02:25, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment on these kind of polls 

message: :Those amendments with at least 80% support and at least 100 votes in total at this point shall be considered to have passed and will be implemented in Wikipedia:Arbitration policy. Those without 80% support or without 100 votes in total shall be considered to have failed and may be subject to a revote at a later date when any concerns raised in the vote for that amendment have been addressed.
Well, unless my count is off, all amendments have failed by these criteria, since none of them garnered 100 votes—that includes the one that proposed to lower the quorum. The moral of the story is that voting is stupid. Well, not really, but you get my point. :-)I've decided that this is the last vote I've participated in, other than places where consensus still matters more, as with votes for deletion (it's ironic that a place which is usually regarded as a source of acrimony and discontent works so well in that regard). All votes I've seen so far where attempts to short-circuit or even bypass consensus building with a percentage majority and/or time wasters for increasing instruction creep. There has not yet been any issue decided on by a vote that has had significant influence on how I edit, which is the only thing that really matters anyway, so I feel I can do very well without it. Others to whom the issues are important are of course free to decide on them in any way they see fit. I'm thoroughly disillusioned with voting in general, however. JRM 01:08, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
:The one that proposed to lower the quorum (E1.1) failed to get consensus, as well as a quorum, of course.  Perhaps these need to run for longer, and have periodic "waves" of advertising for them.  (I managed to forget to vote in time, despite having earlier commented, d'oh.)  Or take a leaf out of Australia et al's book, and make voting compulsory -- desysopping and blocking all round for those not voting.  OK, maybe not...  Alai 03:15, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speaking of fiascos