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| Covert canvassing and proxying in the Israel-Arab conflict topic area | 6 November 2024 | 0/5/0 |
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| Amendment request: Palestine-Israel articles (AE referral) | Motion | (orig. case) | 15 November 2024 |
| Arbitration enforcement referral: Nableezy, et al | none | (orig. case) | 15 November 2024 |
| Clarification request: Referrals from Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard to the full Committee | none | none | 15 November 2024 |
No arbitrator motions are currently open.
Current agenda
The Committee's current agenda is as follows:
| Review Committee performance (Six-month review) |
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| Determine workshop page structure |
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| Prepare updated arbitration policy |
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Draft #2 published; preparation of draft #3 in progress |
| Rotate Ban Appeals Subcommittee membership |
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| Appoint CU & OS auditing subcommittee |
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Election mechanism under discussion |
| Determine updates to arbitration enforcement procedures |
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| Develop an arbitrator recall process |
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| Determine how to deal with users returning from bans |
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| Review clerk procedures |
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| Review ban appeals process |
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Internal review in progress |
| Determine approach to dealing with inactive administrators |
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| Determine approach to handling civility issues |
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| Determine approach to handling vested contributor issues |
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| Prepare transition procedure |
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Announcements
Naming conventions (West Bank)
Pursuant to this remedy in the recently closed case on West Bank - Judea and Samaria, consensus has been reached on naming guidelines for the West Bank, now located at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (West Bank). Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:25, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Audit Subcommittee: personnel change
Roger Davies has stepped down from the Audit Subcommittee (AUSC) with immediate effect and will be replaced by Risker until 19 October 2009 for the unexpired part of the term.
For the Arbitration Committee, Roger Davies talk 15:22, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Golan Heights
Per a motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case:
The arbitration committee advises that one or more neutral admins
chair a new and structured Request for Comment on the disputed naming
guidelines on the Golan Heights within a two month time-frame.
It is recommend that those interested use Wikipedia:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration as a staging post.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Tiptoety talk 17:17, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ryulong
Per a motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification:
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ryulong#Mythdon restricted and placed under mentorship is vacated and replaced with the following:
- Mythdon is placed under conduct probabtion
Mythdon is placed under conduct probation for one year, in relation to WikiProject Tokusatsu and Ryulong, broadly construed. This includes, but is not limited to, edit warring and failing to appropriately pursue dispute resolution and to show better communication skills. Mythdon will still be restricted from making edits such as unnecessary questions and abusive warnings to users' talk pages.
- Conduct probation enforcement
Any uninvolved administrator may utilize discretionary sanctions, including topic bans and blocks, to enforce this probation. Acting administrators are encouraged to apply sanctions tailored to the circumstances and context. For the purposes of enforcing this measure, any administrator approached directly by Ryulong for enforcement should not act directly. In such a situation, raise both Ryulong's and Mythdon's conduct in normal venues for review.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Tiptoety talk 19:25, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Publication of half-year summary of arbitration activities
Pursuant to the agenda item Review Committee performance, a half-year summary of arbitration activities has been published at January to June 2009 report. The publication of this summary was approved by an 8/0 vote, with no abstentions, and six arbitrators considered inactive:
- Support: Carcharoth, Casliber, FloNight, John Vandenberg, Risker, Rlevse, Roger Davies, Wizardman
- Oppose: none
- Abstain: none
- Inactive: Cool Hand Luke, Coren, FayssalF, Newyorkbrad, Stephen Bain, Vassyana
For the Arbitration Committee, Carcharoth (talk) 04:09, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Appeals to the Ban Appeals Subcommittee: Melonite & Geologician
The Ban Appeals Subcommittee has allowed the appeals of:
The text of the decisions and any associated restrictions have been posted on the applicable user talk pages.
For the Arbitration Committee, Roger Davies talk 11:23, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
ArbCom motion re: Geogre
A motion has been filed concerning Geogre (talk · contribs) at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions.
For the Arbitration Committee, Roger Davies talk 15:17, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Motion to establish secondary ArbCom mailing list
Motion: that ArbCom urgently establish an arbcom-en-b mailing list solely for discussions involving (i) the conduct of an arbcom-l subscriber or (ii) cases, broadly defined, to which an arbcom-l subscriber is a party. In these instances, those arbcom-l subscribers referred to in clause (i) and (ii) would be removed from arbcom-en-b list for the duration of the discussion. Discussion shall be initiated at arbcom-en-b upon the motion of three uninvolved arbitrators.
- Support: Carcharoth, Casliber, FloNight, John Vandenberg, Risker, Rlevse, Roger Davies, Wizardman
- Oppose: Coren, Stephen Bain
- Abstain: none
- Not voting: Cool Hand Luke, FayssalF, NewYorkBrad, Vassyana
For the Arbitration Committee, Roger Davies talk 07:30, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Geogre
Per motions at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions:
- 1) The Utgard Loki (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) account is indefinitely blocked. Geogre (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is indefinitely prohibited from maintaining any other alternate account without disclosing it publicly.
- 2) Geogre (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is strongly admonished for sockpuppeting and his actions related thereto.
- 3.1) It is beyond doubt that Geogre (talk · contribs) used Utgard Loki (talk · contribs) in a manner which created the illusion of greater support for positions held by Geogre, in breach of the "Voting and other shows of support" and "Avoiding scrutiny" sections of the sock puppetry policy.
- 3.2) Administrators using a second account in a forbidden manner will be summarily de-sysopped, per the "Administrative sock puppets" section of the sock puppetry policy.
- 3.3) Geogre is desysopped and may regain adminship via the usual means.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Cbrown1023 talk 00:16, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Geogre 2
Per a motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions:
- The Utgard Loki (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) account is to be unblocked and clearly identified as being an alternate account of Geogre. Geogre (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) remains indefinitely prohibited from maintaining any other alternate account without disclosing it publicly.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, MBisanz talk 01:39, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Amendment regarding Obama articles
The Committee has amended several remedies of Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Obama_articles as follows:
- The remedies 4, 5, 9.2, 10.2, and 13 are rewritten as follows: (User) is admonished for his edit-warring. Furthermore, User is subject to an editing restriction for one year. User is limited to one revert per page per week on Obama-related articles (except for undisputable vandalism and BLP violations), and is required to discuss any content reversions on the page's talk page. Should User exceed this limit or fail to discuss a content reversion, he may be blocked for the duration specified in the enforcement ruling below.
The amended decision may be viewed at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Obama_articles#Remedies.
- On behalf of the Committee. MBisanz talk 03:24, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Arbitration Committee motion regarding Aitias administrator permissions
Per motions of the Arbitration Committee at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions, the administrative permissions of Aitias (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) are removed for disruptive and inappropriate conduct including conduct involving his administrative duties. (Please note that Aitias resigned his tools under a cloud after these motions were passed but prior to their enactment, however this motion and the subsequent note were explicitly requested by the Committee to still be enacted and published.)
Aitias may seek to regain adminship via WP:RFA or by application to the Arbitration Committee. Further, Aitias is restricted to one account and is required to comply with the applicable renaming procedures for restricted users, viewable here, should he rename.
For the Arbitration Committee,
Daniel (talk) 04:54, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Motion amending Ryulong Arbitration case regarding Mythdon
The Arbitration Committee has amended Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ryulong to include the following terms:
Pursuant to the latest developments related to the recent Arbitration case involving Mythdon and Ryulong and discussions on the Arbitration Committee mailing list, the Arbitration Committee has noted that there has been no changes in the behavior of Mythdon since the closure of the Arbitration case:
- a) the user has made no effort whatsoever to find a mentor;
- b) the user has made no effort whatsoever to engage himself in serious discussions to produce a guideline for the articles falling under the scope of the Tokusatsu WikiProject as directed by this remedy;
- c) the user has targetted another Wikipedia area to impose his stance on verifiability disregarding the ArbCom's view concerning his stance on the matter;
- d) He recently threatened to mass AfD articles which do not satisfy his standards in terms of reliable sources and verifiability;
Therefore, the Committee has decided to extend the restrictions imposed in order to facilitate more collaboration in the field of conflict and to ensure the smooth running of the project in general and protect other areas in particular. The terms are as follows:
- a) Mythdon is prohibited from partcipating at any Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion discussion which involves verifiability and reliable sources. That includes —and is not limited to— the WikiProject Tokusatsu. The restriction is indefinite pending the production of a guideline. Mythdon —as well as everyone else— should respect the terms of the guideline once it is produced;
- b) Mythdon is reminded of the importance of participating in a good faith effort to help produce a genuine guideline for the cited WikiProject, including but not limited to verifiability. He is again urged to start working on this guideline;
- c) Mythdon is prohibited from making any comment on reliable sources or verifiability unless comments are made at the talk pages of those guidelines and policies, or at the Tokusatsu WikiProject talk pages;
- d) all other restrictions imposed during the arbitration case involving him remain in place;
- e) in the light of Mythdon's resignation from the WikiProject, the ArbCom notes that any similar behavior which had led to this situation would be dealt with similarly. Therefore and as a preventive measure, restrictions apply to all WikiProjects;
- f) should Mythdon violate the above restrictions, any administrator may block him for a period up to two weeks per incident, escalating to one year per incident after the fifth one. Any discussion about possible violations should be held at requests for arbitration enforcement;
- g) any further request on this matter should go through requests for arbitration enforcement beforehand. Administrators there are able to help answer any question.
These terms have been appended to the Ryulong case page at "New remedies and enforcement added by motion". The motion and surrounding discussion are archived here.
For the Arbitration Committee,
Daniel (talk) 15:36, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Jimbo Wales and Bishonen
Per a motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case:
- 1.1) On 21 May, a user added the {{retired}} template to the userpage of another user. An administrator, Bishonen, reverted the addition with the edit summary "Rm 'retired' tag, which is none of [your] business". The user then stated on Bishonen's talk page that "You do not decide what is and what is not my business. Wikipedia is everyone's business..." to which Bishonen replied with "Yes, I do, you little shit. Don't interfere with [another user's] page. Now get lost. Shoo!" The user initiated a discussion about the placement of the tag and Bishonen's comment at the administrators' incidents noticeboard (during which Bishonen made several more condescending remarks towards the user), and as a result of this discussion Jimbo Wales blocked Bishonen for three hours.
- 1.2) Although people do not "own" their user pages, editors should avoid – with certain well-established exceptions (of which adding retirement templates is not one) – making substantial changes to other people's user pages without their consent. The committee notes the user subsequently apologised for his edit.
- 1.3) Bishonen's response to the user was grossly uncivil. Her subsequent comments (on the noticeboard and on her talk page) were condescending and unrepentant. While, in this context, a block may be justified on civility grounds, its delayed timing and short duration - and prior interaction between the blocking and blocked editors - made it controversial. Additionally, the block was placed some time after Bishonen had finished posting, at a time when no ongoing conduct was prevented by the block.
- 1.4) Jimbo Wales did not notify Bishonen immediately of the block, as is required by blocking policy, and it was not until half an hour after announcing it at the incidents noticeboard that he did so. In his announcement of the block on the incidents noticeboard, Jimbo Wales stated "This all seems sadly unbecoming to me, and a direct consequence of our having been too tolerant, for too long, of toxic personalities". Although the use of this latter phrase was later clarified as intending to refer to incivility in general, the phrasing was careless and has been interpreted, reasonably, by some editors as referring to Bishonen.
- 1.5) The Committee acknowledges (i) Bishonen's recognition that "The way I spoke to [the user] was wrong, especially for an admin" and (ii) Jimbo Wales' permanent abdication of the use of the blocking tool. In light of the foregoing, the committee need take no further action at this time.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, MBisanz talk 04:55, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
ArbComOpenTasks template
The {{ArbComOpenTasks}} template has now been revised to include tracking for all public Arbitration Committee activity. The template now includes requests to open cases, the stages for accepted cases, recently closed cases, requests for clarification, requests for amendment, and motions. For the Arbitration Committee, Roger Davies talk 05:35, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Final call for voting in Checkuser/Oversight election
The August 2009 CheckUser and Oversight elections will end at 23:59 UTC on August 10, in approximately 3.5 hours. Voting is currently underway.
For the Arbitration Committee
Risker (talk) 20:19, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Reduced activity: 23–31 August 2009
During the period 23-31 August 2009, as significant numbers of arbitrators will be travelling, Arbitration Committee business will be conducted at much reduced levels and only urgent new matters will be accepted.
- Support: Carcharoth, Casliber, Coren, FloNight, John Vandenberg, Risker, Roger Davies, Wizardman.
- Oppose: Rlevse
- Abstain: none
- Not voting: Cool Hand Luke, FayssalF, Newyorkbrad, Stephen Bain, Vassyana.
For the Arbitration Committee, Roger Davies talk 07:02, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Motion regarding The Rambling Man
Per a motion made at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions:
The Arbitration Committee:
- Finds that the circumstances of The Rambling Man's resignation during the Date delinking case do not preclude his restoration to bureaucrat status by request, in the discretion of the bureaucrats, and that a new request for bureaucratship is not required.
- Encourages any users concerned that the policies and procedures governing restoration of administrator and bureaucrat privileges following a resignation may be unfair or unclear to convene a community discussion on an appropriate policy page and to seek to develop a community-written policy on these matters.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Hersfold (t/a/c) 17:53, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Everyking 3
Per a motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:
Having considered the request to lift the remaining restriction (remedy X) in the EK3 case, the Arbitration Committee decides that the request is denied, but that the indefinite nature of the restriction is altered so that the restriction will now expire one year after the enactment of this motion. This expiration date of one year will be reset following any future unsuccessful appeals of this restriction.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Tiptoety talk 00:13, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
Announcement: Results of Checkuser/Oversight elections, August 2009
Motion: The Arbitration Committee, on reviewing the results of the August 2009 Checkuser and Oversight elections,
(a) appoints the following editors as checkusers, subject to identification to the Wikimedia Foundation:
- J.delanoy (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) (already identified)
- Hersfold (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- Bjweeks (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) (already identified)
(b) appoints the following editors as oversighters, subject to identification to the Wikimedia Foundation:
- Nishkid64 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) (current checkuser, already identified)
- Avraham (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) (current checkuser, already identified)
- Thatcher (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) (current member of the Audit Subcommittee, already identified, to retain oversight permission following the conclusion of his term on that subcommittee)
- Keegan (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) (already identified)
- Howcheng (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) (already identified)
- Dweller (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- Mr.Z-man (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) (already identified)
- Hmwith (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- Happy-melon (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
Supporting: Carcharoth, Casliber, Cool Hand Luke, Coren, FayssalF, FloNight, John Vandenberg, Newyorkbrad, Rlevse, Roger Davies, Wizardman
Abstaining: Risker (supervising arbitrator), Stephen Bain
Inactive: Vassyana
The Committee thanks the other candidates (Jennavecia (talk · contribs), SoWhy (talk · contribs), Stifle (talk · contribs), Tiptoety (talk · contribs), and VirtualSteve (talk · contribs)), those who applied but were not put forward as candidates, and the community in bringing this election process to a successful conclusion.
For the Arbitration Committee
Risker (talk) 03:31, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
Appeals to the Ban Appeals Subcommittee: Keeblesound and Arindamp
The Ban Appeals Subcommittee has allowed the appeals of:
As a consequence of the Arindamp appeal, the ban subcommittee has also unbanned Mrinal Pandey (talk · contribs) and Carlisle Rodham (talk · contribs). These three users are topic banned from The Indian Institute of Planning and Management for 6 months.
The text of the decisions and any associated restrictions have been posted on the applicable user talk pages.
For the Arbitration Committee, John Vandenberg (chat) 05:43, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking
Per a motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:
Having considered all the requests for amendment and requests for clarification submitted following the decision in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking, the Arbitration Committee decides as follows:
- (1) All remedies in the decision providing that a specified user is topic-banned from editing or discussing "style and editing guidelines" (or similar wording) are modified by replacing these words with the words "style and editing guidelines relating to the linking or unlinking of dates";
- (2) All remedies in the decision providing that a specified user is "prohibited from reversion of changes which are principally stylistic, except where all style elements are prescribed in the applicable style guideline" are modified by replacing these words with the words "prohibited from reverting the linking or unlinking of dates";
- (3) All editors whose restrictions are being narrowed are reminded to abide by all applicable policies and guidelines in their editing, so that further controversies such as the one that led to the arbitration case will not arise, and any disagreements concerning style guidelines can be addressed in a civil and efficient fashion;
- (4) Any party who believes the Date delinking decision should be further amended may file a new request for amendment. To allow time to evaluate the effect of the amendments already made, editors are asked to wait at least 30 days after this motion is passed before submitting any further amendment requests.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Tiptoety talk 03:50, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Temporary injunction regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Lapsed Pacifist 2
For the duration of this case, Lapsed Pacifist (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is topic banned from articles related to Corrib Gas, broadly defined. Any uninvolved administrator may issue blocks up to 24 hours in duration for violations of this injunction. Attempts to game the injunction may also be taken into consideration.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Tiptoety talk 21:56, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Motion to amend Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Obama articles: ChildofMidnight topic banned
By motion of the Committee at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification,
Remedy 9 in the Obama articles case is replaced by the following (timed to run from the date the case closed):
ChildofMidnight (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is topic-banned from Obama-related articles for six months, and any related discussions, broadly construed across all namespaces.
For the Arbitration Committee,
AGK 12:48, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
Arbitration Committee motion regarding Locke Cole
The Arbitration Committee has passed a motion amending the "Locke Cole banned" remedy in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking. The remedy banning Locke Cole (talk · contribs) from editing Wikipedia for six months has been amended as follows:
- Locke Cole is provisionally unbanned effective at the enactment of this motion.
- Should Locke Cole be blocked as a result of violating the three-revert rule, his full editing ban will be reinstated for the remainder of its original duration, until December 14, 2009.
- Locke Cole remains indefinitely topic-banned from style and editing guidelines relating to the linking or unlinking of dates, and any related discussions.
- Locke Cole remains subject to an editing restriction for 12 months (until June 14, 2010), under which he is prohibited from reverting the linking or unlinking of dates.
- Locke Cole is reminded to abide by all applicable policies and guidelines in his editing, so that further controversies such as the one that led to the arbitration case will not arise, and any disagreements concerning style guidelines can be addressed in a civil and efficient fashion.
The discussion and voting on this motion has been archived at the case talk page. Locke Cole's account has been unblocked pursuant to this amendment.
For the Arbitration Committee
Daniel (talk) 03:48, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Arbitration Committee motion regarding Mythdon
The Arbitration Committee has passed a motion further amending Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ryulong.
Mythdon (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is banned for a period of six months. At the conclusion of the ban period, Mythdon will be on a six-month conduct probationary period, to run under the current restrictions, as set out in Ryulong.
The discussion and voting on this motion has been archived at the case talk page. Mythdon's account has been blocked for a period of six months pursuant to this amendment.
For the Arbitration Committee
Seddσn talk|WikimediaUK 00:59, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above.
194x144x90x118 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is banned for a period of one year.
All editors of the DreamHost article are reminded to abide by Wikipedia's policies of neutral point of view, using reliable and verifiable sources; to engage in civil discussion on the talk page to resolve editorial disputes; and to use the relevant noticeboards and dispute resolution processes to seek external opinions on coverage of matters where the current editors may lack objectivity.
194x144x90x118's account has been blocked for a period of one year pursuant to this case.
For the Arbitration Committee
Seddσn talk|WikimediaUK 03:06, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
This arbitration case has been closed, and the final decision is available in full at the link above.
As a result of this case:
- The cold fusion article, and parts of any other articles substantially about cold fusion, are placed under discretionary sanctions.
- Abd (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is banned for a period of three months from Wikipedia, and for a period of one year from the cold fusion article. These bans are to run concurrently. Additionally, Abd is prohibited from participating in discussions about disputes in which he is not one of the originating parties, including but not limited to article talk pages, user talk pages, administrator noticeboards, and any formal or informal dispute resolution, however not including votes or comments at polls. Abd is also admonished for edit-warring on Arbitration case pages, engaging in personal attacks, and failing to support allegations of misconduct.
- William M. Connolley (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)'s administrator rights are revoked. He may apply for their reinstatement at any time via Requests for Adminship or appeal to the Committee. William M. Connolley is also admonished for edit warring on Arbitration case pages.
- Mathsci (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is reminded not to edit war and to avoid personal attacks.
- The community is urged to engage in a policy discussion and clarify under what circumstances, if any, an administrator may issue topic or page bans without seeking consensus for them, and how such bans may be appealed. This discussion should come to a consensus within one month of this notice.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee,
Hersfold (t/a/c) 22:43, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
Removal of administrative access
Pursuant to ArbCom procedure for immediate temporary desysop, Pastor Theo (talk · contribs) is to have its sysop bit removed immediately as a reincarnation of a community banned editor.
Concurring: Carcharoth, Casliber, Coren, Rlevse, Wizardman
— Coren (talk), for the Arbitration Committee, 23:34, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
Confirmation of desysopping
In early September 2009, a sockpuppetry investigation was initiated to compare the Mrs. Wolpoff (talk · contribs) account with community-banned Ecoleetage (talk · contribs), based on information that the two accounts were likely shared by the same person. During the course of this investigation, it became apparent that Mrs. Wolpoff was also editing as administrator Pastor Theo (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), an account that was created a day after Ecoleetage was blocked in January 2009, and which made a successful request for adminship in July 2009.
Further review demonstrated that the Mrs. Wolpoff account and the Pastor Theo account were being used in a way that violated multiple policies, particularly the sock puppetry policy, but also the administrator policy, with both accounts voting in certain community processes, and the administrator account being used to close discussions in which the non-administrator account had participated. As this use of both accounts was occurring as recently as last week, it was deemed necessary to initiate temporary desysopping procedures to prevent further disruption to community consensus discussions such as article deletion discussions and requests for adminship. The results of the investigation have been reviewed by multiple checkusers and arbitrators, and all have come to the same conclusion.
It is outside of the scope of the Arbitration Committee to review the community consensus discussions in which both the Mrs. Wolpoff account and the Pastor Theo account participated; the Committee suggests that the community revisits these issues and makes an appropriate determination as to whether any action is required.
Both the Mrs. Wolpoff account and the Pastor Theo account have been indefinitely blocked, because the parent account Ecoleetage is community-banned. The Pastor Theo account has been desysopped. This notice confirms the status of these accounts.
- Support: Carcharoth, Casliber, Coren, FayssalF, Newyorkbrad, Vassyana
- Not voting: Rlevse, Roger Davies, Stephen Bain
- Recused: Cool Hand Luke, Risker
- Inactive: FloNight, John Vandenberg, Wizardman
For the Arbitration Committee, Carcharoth (talk) 00:54, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Trial unblock of User:Life
The Ban Appeal Subcommittee has reviewed the case of this user and considered that a cautious trial of unblocking is feasible. The user is reminded to adhere to the guidelines of harmonious editing. Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:31, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Full clerkships
Arbitration clerk trainees Hersfold, Hmwith, and KnightLago have completed their training and are now full arbitration clerks. The Arbitration Committee thanks them, and all of the other clerks and trainees, for their invaluable and continuing assistance in clerking the arbitration cases and pages. Carcharoth (talk) 02:14, 16 September 2009 (UTC)