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Thank you for the detailed arbitration report. However, I disagree with the photo caption. One of the themes that emerges from our close-to-finalized decision in the German war effort is a reaffirmation that beyond enforcing basic policies and user-conduct expectations, ArbCom does not decide the content of articles, even on a sensitive topic like the one in this case. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:57, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for commenting. At the risk of parsing words with a practicing attorney, "how we talk about" doesn't (just) mean article content; it was intended to reflect the on- and potentially off-wiki editor interaction that indirectly shapes the article content. Maybe I should have said "how we talk about how we talk about...", but the non-attorneys would probably be annoyed by that. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:19, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

I would dispute ArbCom's claim of not deciding the content of articles - by intervening in a content dispute ArbCom is choosing the winner of the dispute. Many of the user conduct issues which look likely to result in one person being blocked and another to suffer a topic ban have occurred during the ArbCom case and have been caused by the ArbCom case. If you wish this to happen then at least be honest about it and not pretend that you are not choosing sides.Nigel Ish (talk) 20:44, 4 August 2018 (UTC)