Arbitration report
Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics
- The Signpost invited further commentary and explanation concerning input given by Barkeep49 at the Palestine-Israel articles 5 case. He put forth the hypothesis that
we would see the most challenging reports sit open longer than normal (indicating a problem) and/or have abnormal amounts of words (become too unwieldy to close) and/or have an unusual number of admins (not enough admins and/or "too many cooks in the kitchen") and/or have disproportionate participation by parties (which could have been either a response - they were drawn to the hard reports - or a cause - their participation cause reports to become hard). We can also see that PIA cases at AE don't look statistically different from reports in other topic areas.
This Arbitration report will show the data that was gathered to support or potentially disprove the hypothesis. – ed.
As part of the ongoing Palestine-Israel articles (PIA) 5 case, I (Barkeep49) conducted an examination of of all 2024 Arbitration Enforcement requests closed between January 1 and December 16. I did so anticipating one or more of the following hypotheses would be true:
- PIA reports at AE would be open longer than normal, or failing that, at least the most difficult PIA reports would be open longer than normal
- The most difficult PIA reports would be longer than normal
- There would be a difference in the number of admins at the most difficult reports
With difficult reports roughly correlating to those which were ultimately referred to ArbCom and caused the opening of the case.