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'''K:''' No, in fact the arbitration committee refuses to let itself be called a court although people often think of it as one. The arbitration committee is either the delegated hand of Jimbo, which is how it was originally envisioned - to replace Jimbo as the person who deals with things when nobody else does - or, kind of a guiding council to make decisions that need to be made, but the community is unable to make on its own.

Either way you look at it, it's an important body in some senses, and yet also less important than people think it is in other wayways. I think a lot of these candidates are running for it cause they'll have made admin, although there's a couple of non-admins running, so that's the next thing to do. They could go for bureaucrat but that's not very interesting, so they'll go for arbcom.

The arbitration committee work is mind-wrenching, it is gruelling... but why anyone would do this is a mystery to me, especially since there's a couple of people on this list I'm looking at who are well known and quite good article authors, and I would like to chase them away to get them to take their names off this list, because if they go on arbcom they're going to have to choose between being an arbitrator and being an article writer. Nobody has been able to do both.