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Revision as of 16:29, 5 April 2009
- For the clerking co-ordination page, see the Clerks' Noticeboard.
The Arbitration Committee Clerks are editors selected by the Arbitration Committee to assist the committee with procedural aspects of its work. The position of Clerk was created in January 2006 by agreement of the Committee.
List
- The following table contain details of the Arbitration Clerks and of the Trainee Clerks, as well as inactive Clerks.
| Name | Time Zone | Initials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active Clerks Clerks who are active in dealing with Arbitration matters, as appointed by the Arbitration Committee. | |||
| Penwhale (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | Enabled: email // penwhale gmail.com
|
ET (UTC-4/-5) | |
| Ryan Postlethwaite (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | Enabled: email | GMT (UTC) | |
| Tznkai (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | Enabled: email | ET (UTC-4/-5) | |
| Tiptoety (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | Enabled: email | PCT (UTC-8) | |
| Trainee Clerks Users who are in training to become a Clerk, as suggested by the Clerk corps and confirmed by the Arbitration Committee. | |||
| hmwith (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | Enabled: email | ET (UTC-4/-5) | |
| KnightLago (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | Enabled: email | ET (UTC-4/-5) | |
| Mailer diablo (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | Enabled: email | SST/AWST (UTC+8) | |
| MBisanz (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | Enabled: email | ET (UTC-4/-5) | |
| Sam Korn (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | Enabled: email | GMT (UTC) | |
| Temporarily-inactive Clerks Clerks and Trainees who are temporarily unable to assist in Arbitration matters, but will be returning to active shortly | |||
| Daniel (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | Enabled: email // dbwikigmail.com
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ACST (UTC+9:30) | |
| Inactive Clerks Clerks who have not participated in clerk activities during the last month, or who have indicated that they will be inactive at this time. | |||
| AGK (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | — | — | |
| Cbrown1023 (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | — | — | |
| Cowman109 (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | — | — | |
| David.Mestel (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | — | — | |
| Drini (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | — | — | |
| Nishkid64 (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | — | — | |
| Nixeagle (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) (formerly Eagle 101) | — | — | |
| Johnleemk (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | — | — | |
| MacGyverMagic (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | — | — | |
| Phil Sandifer (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | — | — | |
| Ryan Delaney (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | — | — | |
| Srikeit (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | — | — | |
| Former Clerks Clerks who are no longer involved with Clerking, due to resignation or appointment to the Arbitration Committee. | |||
| Coren (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | (became an Arbitrator) | — | |
| FloNight (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | (became an Arbitrator) | — | |
| Gazimoff (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | (resigned) | — | |
| Jayvdb (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | (resigned, later became an Arbitrator) | — | |
| Kelly Martin (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | (resigned) | — | — |
| Newyorkbrad (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | (became an Arbitrator) | — | |
| Picaroon (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | (resigned) | — | |
| Rlevse (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | (became an Arbitrator) | — | |
| Tony Sidaway (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | (resigned) | — | |
| Thatcher (talk · message · contribs · count · logs · email) | (resigned) | — | |
Tasks
- For a procedural guide, see Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Clerks/Procedures.
The Clerks assist the Arbitration Committee by:
- opening requests for arbitration that have garnered the requisite 4 net votes to accept
- keeping the requests for arbitration ("RfAr") pages organised, including enforcing Committee guidelines on statements and comments
- delisting requests for arbitration that have no consensus to accept[1]
- closing cases that have the required number of votes[2] and publishing the final decisions[3]
- giving procedural advice to case participants
- keeping the Arbitration, Talk, Evidence, and Workshop pages in good order and in the prescribed format[4]
To help carry out their tasks, the Clerks are granted write-only access to the Arbitration Committee's mailing list ("ArbCom-l"),[5] as well as permission to edit proposed and final decision pages for purposes such as making clerical changes and drafting implementation notes. They are not granted any other privileges, such as posting proposals to the Proposed decision page or voting on cases. Former Clerks do not retain Clerk privileges.
The Clerks are also often very familiar with Arbitration matters, and frequently are consulted on ongoing cases—whether they are officially assigned to them or not. Some Clerks have indeed gone on to be elected Arbitrators: FloNight (elected 2006), Newyorkbrad (elected 2007), Rlevse (elected 2008), Coren (elected 2008) and Jayvdb (elected 2008). However, the Clerks are most definitely not "Arbitrators" in any sense; likewise, Clerkship should not be sought—nor viewed—as a springboard to being elected to the Committee.
- Notes
- ^ This is considered a "grey area" and is left to the Clerks' discretion; generally, requests that have had a number of "decline" votes for a few days or more will be delisted, but cases that have not had any votes from Committee members will be left on the page until they receive attention. One exception, however, is the "ten-day rule": any request that has failed to meet the acceptance criterion—four net votes to accept—within ten days will be delisted, absent any direction from the Arbitrators to the contrary.
- ^ Arbitration cases may be closed through a "Motion to close," began by an Arbitrator on a cases /Proposed_decision page. The motion must receive four net votes in support in order to pass. If a case has had any proposals over which an Arbitrator has disagreed, it will no less than 24 hours from the final net vote being cast; otherwise, it will usually close immediately. (Most cases have some disagreement amongst the Committee.)
- ^ This includes notifying the parties that the case has closed, logging any sanctions passed, and requesting desysopping if a remedy requires it.
- ^ Arbitration Clerks are given license by the Committee to ban particularly disruptive users from one, any, or all of the pages related to a particular case (and to enforce those bans with a block if necessary or if they are disobeyed). They are also given license to "lock down" a particular page if it descends so far into chaos that bans and blocks are not feasible; this in itself is, however, rare. Clerks have also employed in the past tactics such as placing conspicuous {{Notice}}s on pages that are being disrupted by boisterous parties.
- ^ This essentially means their emails are automatically accepted to the mailing list; other emails are by default held for moderation by a Committee member. Write-only access does not mean they are able to see the email of other users; such an ability requires "read" access, which is granted only to the Mailing list's subscribers (current Arbitrators, the mailing list coordinator, and Jimbo Wales.)
Participation and recusal
Like all editors, Clerks may participate in Arbitration cases by making proposals or commenting on the talk, Evidence talk, Workshop and Workshop talk, and Proposed decision talk pages. Comments made by Clerks on the merits of cases are submitted in their individual capacity, not as Clerks, and have no priority over comments by any other editors.
A Clerk should not add evidence to the Evidence page of a case that he or she is clerking. Clerks also should not perform Clerk duties in cases in which they have been involved in the dispute being considered, or if they have had significant prior negative interactions with any of the parties. Clerks can request feedback from other Clerks and request reassignment of cases where necessary on the Clerks' noticeboard or in the Clerks' IRC channel.
Organization
Clerks are appointed by the Arbitration Committee, and their activities are coordinated through the Clerks' Noticeboard. There is no head clerk position. Further organizational details are administered as needed through consensus, subject to any directions (and indeed corrections) from the Committee.
There is also a mailing list ("Clerks-l") for coordination of Clerk business; this mailing list is private (and is privately archived, although it once had open archives). An IRC channel, #wikipedia-en-arbcom-clerks, also exists, for informal coordination and discussion of routine business. As a general rule of thumb, however, all co-ordination of Arbitration cases should be performed on-Wiki.
Becoming a Clerk
The process of becoming a Clerk is not as regimented as other comparable processes are (eg. adminship, medcom).
Contact a Clerk if you're interested in joining.
Clerks are appointed by the Arbitration Committee, generally after a period of training and mentorship. Editors interested in becoming a Clerk may contact any current Clerk about a mentorship ("traineeship", apprenticeship); trainees are usually approved by the remainder of the clerk team through general consensus—usually on Clerks-l, the mailing list—although the Committee retains final jurisdiction. Mentor–trainee relationships are not intended to be exclusive, but to establish a first point of contact.
Applicants will be evaluated based on temperament and overall Wikipedia experience, with some priority given to editors who have been informally active on Arbitration case pages or who have listed themselves on the noticeboard. Clerking requires a balanced blend of caution and boldness, and more caution than typically encouraged on Wikipedia, making proper temperament very important. Potential Clerks are expected to be:
- competent ("clueful");
- trustworthy;
- good communicators; and
- neutral & non-controversial.
Those who are interested may contact an existing member of the Clerk team for advice. The general procedure is that that individual Clerk's opinion will be sought; if the (potential) applicant desires, that Clerk can collate feedback from others in the team on an individual basis. Thereafter, the applicant will usually enter an informal period of observation and, if a Clerk is willing, help out on a case opening or closure. Should it hence be desired, a proposal can be made to Clerks-l for the applicant to join as a formal trainee.
After a Clerk trainee has some experience handling complicated cases, and if he or she willing to make a small but steady commitment of time, the Clerks may submit the trainee's name to the Arbitration Committee for consideration of a full appointment.
Helping out
If you're interested in Clerking, chip in around the Clerk pages to "get a feel" for things.
There are some things, however, that should be left to the Clerks.
The active Clerks encourage informal help from interested editors. Those interested should monitor the relevant pages, including the Clerks' Noticeboard, and make their availability known to the Clerks. Many of the currently active official Clerks got their start at performing Clerk tasks in this way.
However, because the official Clerks are the appointed representatives of the Arbitration Committee, and act on behalf of the Committee in some circumstances, there are some things that should be done only by the full-time Clerks, or by trainees. These include:
- Opening and closing cases;
- Make announcements on behalf of the Committee;
- Archiving or removing motions;
- Removing threaded comments from the main requests for arbitration page (but helpers may move comments into the section of the person making the comments);
- Removing or shortening excessively long presentations on the main page or on the evidence page;
- Removing rejected cases from the main page within the 10-day period for consideration (a Clerk or Arbitrator may remove a case that has been listed for less than 10 days if there is a clear majority to reject and no chance of acceptance; helpers should only remove rejected cases after ten days);
- Editing the /Proposed decision subpages, except for correction of obvious typographical or numbering errors;
- Editing the case status templates, or other maintenance templates transcluded from Arbitration requests or case pages;
- Making policy-like statements, such as announcing the procedure for handling the changeover of ArbCom members.eg: [1] [2].
In general, helpers should also avoid dealing with touchy or choleric participants; in all likelihood, you shall know these when you encounter them!
Informal helpers are otherwise encouraged to participate by performing any other needed tasks, including maintaining the main page, fixing formatting errors and broken links, and other maintenance tasks, insofar as it is amicably welcomed by the Clerk team or by the Committee, and so long as it remains helpful for the process at large. For questions and coordination, use the noticeboard.