User:L235/Arbitrator or arbitrator
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- Q: Is the term for a member of the Arbitration Committee "arbitrator" or "Arbitrator"?
- A: Follow MOS, folks.
- Correct: the arbitrators will have had little or no involvement or knowledge of the dispute in question
- Incorrect: the Arbitrators will reach a binding decision
- Correct: An arbitrator may vote to accept or decline a request.
- Incorrect: each workshop proposal includes space for comments by the Arbitrators, parties, and others
- Correct: he has generally appointed arbitrators from among the candidates
- Incorrect: Current Arbitrators are shown in boldface.
- Correct: Twelve arbitrators were elected.
- Incorrect: Jimbo indicated that in the future, the Arbitrators would be elected.
- Correct: None of the four arbitrators (The Epopt, Jayjg, Theresa knott, and Sam Korn) in the previous Tranche Gamma ran for reelection.
- Incorrect: The vacant seat in Tranche Gamma (vacant since Mackensen's February resignation), the resignation of arbitrator Mindspillage (who was appointed to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees), the replacement of Filiocht (who is on indefinite leave), and the seats of the four Tranche Gamma members led to a total of seven seats filled.
(all examples from longstanding Wikipedia-space pages)