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Request name	Motions	Initiated	Votes
John J. Bulten		23 December 2010	{{{votes}}}

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John J. Bulten

Initiated by → Brendan (talk, contribs) at 06:46, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Involved parties

Brendanology (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), filing party
John J. Bulten (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request

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Confirmation that other steps in dispute resolution have been tried

Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2010-01-04/Longevity myths
Talk:List_of_the_verified_oldest_people#Merge_proposal (slightly more informal, but (failed) attempt at dispute/difference resolution by several users seen)
Talk:List_of_the_verified_oldest_people/Archive_14#Bolding_war (Ditto)

Statement by Brendanology

I will confess that I have not always been entirely civil in my interactions with John J. Bulten; however, ArbCom will be shown evidence that repeated attempted dispute resolution on longevity-related articles (both official and unofficial) with Bulten has failed time and again or shown to have been counterproductive. Bulten has behaved inappropriately on multiple longevity-related articles, such as a) intimidating and attempting to convert editors [2], b) threatening editors with blocks without prior attempts to seek consensus [3], c) submitting batches of biographies on long-lived people for deletion under near-identical criteria; [4][5][6][7] d) spamming the same AfD message with minimal differences [see diffs for c)], e) broken multiple AfD contributing policies (such as not voting on your own AfD [again, see diffs for c)], attempts, using spammed messages, to scare off editors who voted "keep" on articles he nominated for deletion [8][9][10].

The request sent to ArbCom is intended as a last resort; an ArbCom discussion will provide solutions to John J. Bulten's disruptive and damaging behaviour for which previous attempts of resolution have failed time and again. → Brendan (talk, contribs) 08:37, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by {Party 2}

Statement by {Party 3}

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I have left a note on the filing party's talkpage regarding the ongoing Longevity case involving both parties. Alexandr Dmitri (talk) 11:36, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The filing party has contacted me regarding this request for arbitration and I have explained that he or she may address this issue at the ongoing case. Alexandr Dmitri (talk) 07:05, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitrators' opinion on hearing this matter (0/4/0/0)

Decline. There is already an ongoing case regarding these disputes (Longevity); I see no reason why opening another would be necessary or beneficial. Kirill ^{[talk] [prof]} 16:04, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Decline per Kirill. Perhaps there may need to be consideration of a temporary injunction in relation to the existing case. Risker (talk) 16:48, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Decline as a separate case, but the issues can be addressed in the pending Longevity case, as suggested by Kirill and Risker. Newyorkbrad (talk) 16:50, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Decline. Existing case. SirFozzie (talk) 20:54, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]