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The Arbitration Committee exists to impose binding solutions to Misplaced Pages disputes. This solution may be anything up to and including a ban from editing the entire Misplaced Pages for a period of time.

The Arbitration Committee is the last step in the dispute resolution process — it is a last resort to be turned to when all else has failed. Other steps, including discussion between users and, where appropriate, mediation, should be tried first. The Arbitration Committee exists to deal with only the most serious disputes and cases of rule-breaking.

Until the beginning of 2004, Jimbo Wales, the founder of Misplaced Pages, dealt with all serious disputes and was the only person with the authority to ban users who were not engaging in simple vandalism (straightforward vandals can be blocked by any administrator). In the last year, this role has begun to be passed to the Arbitration Committee. Jimbo wrote:

"The Arbitration Committee can impose a solution that I'll consider to be binding, with of course the exception that I reserve the right of executive clemency and indeed even to dissolve the whole thing if it turns out to be a disaster. But I regard that as unlikely, and I plan to do it about as often as the Queen of England dissolves Parliament against their wishes, i.e. basically never, but it is one last safety valve for our values."

• To request Arbitration, see Misplaced Pages:Requests for Arbitration.
• The Arbitration policy details the rules involved.

Members

NOTE: The number of active AC members affects the number of AC members needed to reach a ruling. For example, if seven AC members are active, then four votes are needed to reach a majority decision. If ten are active, then six votes are needed, etc. If an even number of members are active and there is a tie, then we will ask Jimbo Wales to give the tie-breaking vote.

AC status: Active (has participated in an AC case in the last month), Inactive (has not participated in an AC case in the last month), Away (on a temporary leave of absence)

Active

As of 8 Oct 2004

1. Daniel Mayer, aka Maveric149 -- maveric149 at yahoo.com (I'm back but will be on vacation the week of the 21st and will be moving late November / early December 2600 miles away to Atlanta)
2. Fred Bauder -- fredbaud at ctelco.net
3. James Forrester, aka Jdforrester -- james at jdforrester.org
4. Sean Barrett, aka The Epopt -- sean at epoptic.org
5. Martin Harper, aka MyRedDice -- wikipedia at myreddice.co.uk
6. Mark, aka Raul654 -- mapellegrini at comcast.net
7. James W. Rosenzweig, -- jwrosenzweig at yahoo.com (Access to Internet improving, but still somewhat limited.)
8. The Cunctator -- cunctator at kband.com -- the Requests for Arbitration page is utterly confusing

Away

As of 15 November 2004

1. David Friedland, aka Nohat -- david at nohat.net
2. Gutza -- gutza at moongate.ro, but please see my notice on a temporary internet outage
3. Lee Pilich, aka Camembert -- lee at audiblerecords.com

Inactive

As of 18 Sep 2004

1. Mark, aka Delirium -- delirium at rufus.d2g.com

Left

1. UninvitedCompany

Notes

All volunteered apart from The Cunctator, who was "drafted", and Jwrosenzweig and Raul654, who were elected for 5 months. Jimbo plans that future Arbitrators will be elected.

By choice, we don't have a chair.

External link

• Now-defunct Arbitration message board (active 21 Jan to 17 Mar 2004)

• Misplaced Pages dispute resolution