Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests

Template for referrals from AE

With there being an official ability of AE admins to refer cases to ArbCom in the Contentious Topic procedures, it would be helpful to have a template that meets those needs as the existing two templates are awkward fits. Thanks for considering, Barkeep49 (talk) 17:28, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Or just let us post a link to the AE report without a bunch of templates? Please? ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:31, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

I think ArbCom is going to need more than a link to be useful and someone will need to identify and notify parties. But perhaps ArbCom would be willing to let clerks do that, with only a minimal of paperwork from the AE admins. Barkeep49 (talk) 17:35, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Building on this: I was obviously think of @Red-tailed hawk clearly needing a bunch of time before filing this request when making this suggestion. And while I understand why he's doing it, having the uninvolved administrators at AE lumped in with the people those administrators are referring to ArbCom seems strange and feels like it makes it harder for the committee to sort out what's going on. Barkeep49 (talk) 17:46, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

I've tried to format it logically. Some more guidance on this would be helpful, going forward. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 18:01, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

You've formatted this in a good way, Red. Thanks for taking care of it this time. Agreed that a template would be useful, and the fact that you've done this request this time will be useful learning in what such a template should contain or omit. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 18:22, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

ARCA word limits not in header

Might we want to add the word limits for WP:ARCA to the the big red box at the top of the screen? The limit of 1000 words from WP:AC/P#Format of requests for amendment appears to only apply to amendments (clarifications aren't mentioned), so it's a bit hard to tell what exactly they are for that case. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 00:52, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Unlike case requests, I don't believe ArbCom has decided to impose a word limit at ARCA, other than for the proposer's rationale for an amendment. SilverLocust 💬 00:59, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Ah. That's a bit odd, but I guess it checks out. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 01:06, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Lvl-2 headers at WP:ARCA

Can we please reformat ARCA to use lvl-2 headers for cases rather than lvl-3? A page with only one lvl-2 header makes the header rather useless. (No page should ever have only one lvl-2 header.) Also, the lvl-2 header says the same thing as the lvl-1 header (the page title), making it further useless. If every case request was a separate lvl-2 (instead of a lvl-3), it would be much easier to read on mobile (right now it's kind of impossible to read on mobile because you have to scroll past ALL of the cases to get to the one you want). And you'd be able to collapse the individual ARCAs in the V-22 TOC (currently, can't be done). PS: in reality, what renders as a level-2 header is actually a level-1 header (which, I believe, shouldn't be used at all), and what renders as level-3 headers are actually level-2 headers (the headings of the individual ARCAs), but the point is that the page renders it as one level-2 followed by multiple level-3, and so the request is to reformat the page to remove the level-1 header, so the level-2 headers will actually render as level-2. Thanks, Levivich (talk) 17:28, 21 August 2024 (UTC)