The Arbitration Committee does not make policy
Speaking as the member of the Arbitration Committee who proposed the quoted principle, "Allowing anonymous editing and forbidding conflict of interest," the committee said, "is an obvious contradiction which necessarily is imperfectly resolved.", it was presented as something for the Wikipedia community to think about. Although sometimes our decisions have resulted in policy, we are supposed to apply existing policy.
Fred Bauder
Biting the hand that feeds IT
