Seeing a photo credited to a "Gerbil" on the Nobel Prize site is very amusing. :) Rockfang (talk) 07:03, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think we can expect to see the resignation of the German and the abolition of the Spanish ArbComs having an effect here. There's been considerable controversy generated this year by the en ArbCom. The current governance model is failing. --Hammersoft (talk) 17:30, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that in policy discussion it can be very useful to examine the experiences of other projects in analogous matters. However, it also has to be said that there exist considerable differences between arbcoms on different projects. In the article I already alluded to the late founding of the German arbcom. And it seems that at least the "lack of authority" concerns would apply less here on en:. To to quote Tinz, a longtime admin on de: (and member of the Wikimedia Foundation's ombudsman commission): "[On the English Wikpedia] they have arbcom problems which are very different from ours (my impression: The arbcom institution is recognized by the community as an authority, has much more power than the Schiedsgericht ever had, but a few individual members cause petty scandals every now and then)."[1]. Regards, HaeB (talk) 22:02, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
