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Amendment request: Anti-harassment RfC

Initiated by EllenCT at 15:11, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Case or decision affected

Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC

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1. Topics on which comment is requested

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• EllenCT (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (initiator)

Information about amendment request

• Topics on which comment is requested

• The RfC should request comments on all of the topics of its mandate.

Statement by EllenCT

Dear Arbcom,

As discussed at its talk page I ask the Committee to amend WP:AHRFC such that the requests include all portions of the mandate as given: "focus on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future."

At present, private complaints are covered but there is no section, for example, where discussing long-term harassment issues and solutions would be appropriate.

Dear Clerks, the section heading levels on that RfC are odd, too.

Thank you all for your kind service. EllenCT (talk) 15:11, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

@Worm That Turned and David Fuchs: I'm happy to create a supplemental separate RFC, especially if you think it would be better than amending the one which has been running. When I came upon it it said that you hadn't opened it, but someone else apparently had. EllenCT (talk) 16:56, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

I withdraw this request in favor of this proposed supplemental RfC outline. EllenCT (talk) 15:04, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

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Anti-harassment RfC: Clerk notes

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Anti-harassment RfC: Arbitrator views and discussion

• Ellen, I'm one of the Arbs that was actually involved in the Fram case... indeed, I wrote most of the initial decision. The intention of the RfC was to plug the "hole" that plausibly existed about "on-wiki" behaviour that needed to be handled through "off-wiki" mean, due to the points raised in the RfC. There were some side questions that were also raised as part of that and the RfC that has been published has posed those too. It was never meant as a general RfC on harassment on Wikipedia and how to handle that. While a general RfC may well be worthwhile, this should be community led, not Arbcom led and so I'd encourage you to consider raising a separate one about the concerns you'd like covered in the future. Worm^TT(talk) 09:00, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
• Having read your specific query on the talk page I don't see how that's singularly relevant for the terms of the RfC. It's not about grinding personal axes; its framing is rather deliberately not totally open-ended. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 13:15, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

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