Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-12-18/Arbitration series

To Tranche Gamma:
Flcelloguy
Kirill Lokshin
Paul August
UninvitedCompany
Jpgordon

To Tranche Beta
FloNight (Mindspillage's seat, from which she recently retired)
Binguyen (Filiocht's seat, as he is on indefinite leave)

From http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-December/059354.html - crz crztalk 06:27, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

It's too late for last week's Signpost so Ral has already fixed his note to say that the results will be in tomorrow's issue. Kimchi.sg 06:37, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I know. I posted here b/c people are watching this page. - crz crztalk 06:39, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Why Even Have The Election?

If Jimbo chooses them anyway, what's the point of voting? Does he just pick the ones at the top to avoid people bothering him later on? It seems useless. Just H 01:26, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

The point of voting is that, in fact, he did pick the people who had the highest percentage of support votes. In strict political-science terms, this election really is a "primary" election, as it serves to nominate people for selection in a later process (in this case an appointment.) But a primary is still an election. 6SJ7 01:53, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Because even though Jimbo's parole is considered policy, and he could theoretically appoint User:Willy on Wheels, he chose not to do so without the community's input, if only because there had to be widespread agreement that all those on the ArbCom are accepted as such for their judgement to be respected by the community at large.Circeus 04:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)