Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-01-01/Arbitration report

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It would be interesting, as an annual report, to see some trends - how have the number of cases referred to ArbCom changed since the year before and how have the committee's actions affected the trends relating to editors following the behavioural policies that are in place. AndrewRT(Talk) 22:18, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I would certainly be interested to see such numbers, but I don't know of anyone who keeps them. When I started doing the report last year, I started tracking clarification and amendment requests as well, but quickly found out it is a lot of work, especially tracking down the links when they are archived.

I would have liked to track the Arbitration Enforcement requests as well, especially in light of the proposal to update the Committee's "discretionary sanctions" procedures for arbitration enforcement. Based on some comments I've seen, it is my impression that users are trending towards the clarification request process, and away from arbitration enforcement. It would be interesting to see if the numbers bear this out.

FWIW, I have compiled a rough list of cases and requests in my user space at User talk:Neotarf/ArbCom 2013, for the purpose of writing this report. Regards, —Neotarf (talk) 13:17, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for this story - it's a useful summary of the main cases ArbCom handled. Nick-D (talk) 10:34, 8 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that, it's been a rough year. Nice to have my last report end with a compliment. —Neotarf (talk) 09:29, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]