A brief comment on two points here: (1) the climate change case proposed decision talk page is not a completely unstructured discussion. The page in fact includes an innovation not seen in previous cases, namely a separate section for statements to be made. Though it remains to be seen how successful that will be, several people have taken the opportunity to make statements as well as take part in the threaded discussion. The actual discussion section does lack structure - I had considered replicating the workshop structure to encourage specific comments, but the discussions I started about that didn't get many comments. JohnWBarber did set up a more structured discussion, and I've recently posted to the talk page encouraging the participants to self-organise the page to keep discussion more focused and easier to follow (this would normally be the role of the clerks and arbitrators, but with the volume of discussion seen here, some self-organisation by the participants is needed). (2) The period of comment for the CU and OS appointments has closed now. I'd like to thank all those that commented, either on-wiki or by e-mail. I'll try and post an update on this at the arbitration noticeboard tomorrow, though the schedule is still currently as given in previous notices. Carcharoth (talk) 02:26, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
To add to that, for those who are curious, as of the report date, there were about 2680 words in statements while there was 17,236 words in unstructured discussion. As of this timestamp, the figure for statements has less than doubled to >4000 words while the figure for discussion has more than tripled to >60,000 words. Ncmvocalist (talk) 05:05, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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