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| ==Current amendment process== | ==Current amendment process== | ||
| In 2008, a wide ranging ] was undertaken |
In 2008, a wide ranging ] was undertaken which resulted in a series of suggested policy changes. Some members of the community are developing a proposal to vote on ratifying these changes during the ]. This may become an accepted method of amendment of the Arbitration Policy by the community. | ||
| The 2008 process worked as follows, | The 2008 process worked has worked as follows, | ||
| * A Request for Comments submitted to ], to discuss problems and propose solutions in the standard RfC manner of individuals making statements that others can list their support or opposition to. | * A Request for Comments submitted to ], to discuss problems and propose solutions in the standard RfC manner of individuals making statements that others can list their support or opposition to. | ||
| * Consensus editing of a summary of the statements that had clear majority support, and production of actionable suggested policy changes as appropriate from those statements. | * Consensus editing of a summary of the statements that had clear majority support by participants in the RfC, and production of actionable suggested policy changes as appropriate from those statements. | ||
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* Discussion of the submission of those policy changes to the community for ratification at the next round of Arbitration Committee Elections and/or other approaches, ongoing at ]. | ||
| * A request has been posted on ] to ask for guidance from the current Arbitration Committee as to how in their opinion the process of changing arbitration policy could develop. There is discussion to what extent the Committee's opinion on this is determinative. | |||
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There was at one point a proposal here; it is now at /Old proposal.
Arbitration policy has been the jurisdiction of Jimbo Wales and the Arbitration Committee; see e.g. the arbitration policy ratification vote, which states that the "Arbitration Policy may be tweaked as the Committee gains experience and learns better ways of doing things". In 2005, then then-Committee member Grunt, indicated that "Jimbo Wales has also suggested that Arbitration Policy is not open to amendment by the community." from March 2005
Previous proposed amendments
Several attempts have been made to instigate community interest in amendment of Arbitration policy; see e.g.
- Misplaced Pages:Arbitration policy/Proposed amendment and its failed ratification vote
- Misplaced Pages:Arbitration policy/Proposed amendment revote which, despite its name, was not entirely the same as the original proposed amendment
A restriction of one hundred community votes was implemented in both votes, but not met by either.
Current amendment process
In 2008, a wide ranging Request for Comments on the Arbitration system was undertaken which resulted in a series of suggested policy changes. Some members of the community are developing a proposal to vote on ratifying these changes during the 2008 Arbitration Committee Elections. This may become an accepted method of amendment of the Arbitration Policy by the community.
The 2008 process worked has worked as follows,
- A Request for Comments submitted to Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_comment, to discuss problems and propose solutions in the standard RfC manner of individuals making statements that others can list their support or opposition to.
- Consensus editing of a summary of the statements that had clear majority support by participants in the RfC, and production of actionable suggested policy changes as appropriate from those statements.
- Discussion of the submission of those policy changes to the community for ratification at the next round of Arbitration Committee Elections and/or other approaches, ongoing at the relevant talk page.
- A request has been posted on RFAR to ask for guidance from the current Arbitration Committee as to how in their opinion the process of changing arbitration policy could develop. There is discussion to what extent the Committee's opinion on this is determinative.