FT2 accuses Arbcom Options

[Peter Damian]

A long question to Coren from FT2 here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...Coren/Questions , accusing Arbcom of 'gaming' the elections this time last year.

Actually he is right, as I have pointed out elsewhere http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=34246 .

An arbitrator has just emailed me to say that he found the whole thing problematic all along (yes but why didn't you say so at the time).

This post has been edited by Peter Damian: Mon 28th November 2011, 7:55am

[Peter Damian]

We know that Arbcom successfully forced FT2 to stand down exactly this time last year at the last elections. Risker was behind that.

However, I don't know much about what happened in January, March and May of this year, months which FT2 specifically refers to in his diatribe.

An arb wrote to me on 4th February this year "the bullets are loaded for the symbolic wiki-execution of FT2 and all that he stood for in the next few weeks, for one thing ... he needs to be publicly booted out by Arbcom, and publicly refused appeal by Jimbo and co, to show that Wikipedia is serious about setting its house in order."

Why the 'execution' never happened I didn't find out. I suspect FT2 convinced them that he really did have senior support in WMF for his earlier actions, and they backed off. What a mess.

[gomi]

Why the 'execution' never happened I didn't find out. I suspect FT2 convinced them that he really did have senior support in WMF for his earlier actions, and they backed off. What a mess.

Isn't it possible that FT2 threatened to release (even more) detrimental information about Arbcom if they did ban him? Honestly, I can't keep this while FT2 thing straight without a scorecard. I'll have to go back and review the threads.