Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard

Arbitration​Committee

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Arbitration motion regarding a case request about User:YellowMonkey

Passed by a vote of 8-2 at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case:

The Arbitration Committee has considered the request for arbitration (filed 30 November 2010) concerning administrator actions by YellowMonkey, which followed a request for comment on similar issues (certified 23 November). Although YellowMonkey responded to the original issues raised in the request for comment, he has not edited since 24 November 2010 (six days before the arbitration request was filed) and has not yet been afforded the opportunity to address the new issues raised in the request for comment or in this arbitration request. Accordingly, the arbitration request is declined as premature, and those wishing to engage in dispute resolution on this matter (including YellowMonkey) are directed to the request for comment or other appropriate venues.

For the Arbitration Committee, NW (Talk) 21:18, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

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Personnel changes effective 1 January 2011

Effective 1 January 2011, the Arbitration Committee membership is as follows:

• Casliber (talk · contribs)
• Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk · contribs)
• Cool Hand Luke (talk · contribs)
• Coren (talk · contribs)
• David Fuchs (talk · contribs)
• Elen of the Roads (talk · contribs)
• Iridescent (talk · contribs)
• Jclemens (talk · contribs)
• John Vandenberg (talk · contribs)
• Kirill Lokshin (talk · contribs)
• Mailer diablo (talk · contribs)
• Newyorkbrad (talk · contribs)
• PhilKnight (talk · contribs)
• Risker (talk · contribs)
• Roger Davies (talk · contribs)
• Shell Kinney (talk · contribs)
• SirFozzie (talk · contribs)
• Xeno (talk · contribs)

The following new arbitrators are granted both CheckUser and Oversight permissions, per their request:

• Casliber (talk · contribs) (Arbcom-related use only)
• Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk · contribs)
• Elen of the Roads (talk · contribs)
• Iridescent (talk · contribs) (Arbcom-related use only)
• Jclemens (talk · contribs)
• PhilKnight (talk · contribs)
• Xeno (talk · contribs) (Arbcom-related use only)

The Arbitrator members of the Audit Subcommittee (AUSC) are:

• Xeno
• Jclemens
• Risker

The members of the Ban Appeals Subcommittee (BASC) for the first three months of 2011 are:

• Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry
• PhilKnight
• Cool Hand Luke
• Shell Kinney will continue as co-ordinator of this subcommittee.

The following members of the Arbitration Committee are retiring as of 1 January 2011:

• Carcharoth (talk · contribs)
• FayssalF (talk · contribs)
• KnightLago (talk · contribs)

The Arbitration Committee expresses its thanks to all three for their service throughout their respective terms. KnightLago and Carcharoth may elect to remain active on the two requests for arbitration that are currently open, and will notify the clerks directly of their intentions.

With respect to CheckUser and Oversight permissions:

• KnightLago will continue with both CheckUser and Oversight permissions
• Carcharoth has requested that his CheckUser and Oversight permissions be removed
• FayssalF's CheckUser permissions are removed due to inactive status

In addition:

• FloNight (talk · contribs) is granted extension of Oversight and CheckUser permissions until further notice.
• Bastique (talk · contribs) is granted Oversight permissions further to the Arbitration Committee announcement posted 27 August 2010.

We thank all members, past and present, of the Arbitration Committee and the Functionaries group for their continued support and effort on behalf of Wikipedia over the past year.

For the Arbitration Committee,

Risker (talk) 23:58, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

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Change in status - Arbitration Committee clerk

This serves to confirm that NuclearWarfare (talk · contribs) is formally appointed as a full clerk to the Arbitration Committee. NuclearWarfare has been acting in this role for an extended period, and has been amongst the most active members of the clerking cadre. The Committee appreciates his continued diligence in this area.

For the Arbitration Committee,

Risker (talk) 19:38, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

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Arbitration Clerks Seeking New Volunteers

The Arbitration Committee clerks are currently looking for a few dependable and mature editors willing to serve as clerks. The responsibilities of clerks are simple—opening, closing, passing and declining cases and motions; maintaining the requests for Arbitration pages; and preserving order and proper formatting on cases. Clerks are the unsung heroes of the arbitration process, keeping track of details to ensure that requests are handled in a timely and efficient manner. Clerks get front-line seats to the political and ethnic warfare that scorches Wikipedia periodically, and, since they aren't arbitrators themselves, are rarely threatened with violence by the participants.

Past clerks have gone on to be (or already were) successful lawyers, naval officers, and Presidents of Wikimedia Chapters. The salary and retirement packages for Clerks rival that of Arbitrators, to boot.

Please email clerks-llists.wikimedia.org if you are interested in becoming a clerk, and a clerk will reply with an acknowledgement of your message and any questions we want to put to you.

For the Arbitration Committee clerks,
NW (Talk) 20:07, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

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Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria

At Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment, the Arbitration Committee reviewed a request by User:Jayjg to remove editing restrictions placed on him in the abovementioned case. By a vote of 12-0, the Committee passed the following motion:

In view of his compliance with Remedy 11 of the West Bank - Judea and Samaria case, the editing restrictions placed on Jayjg (talk · contribs) in that same case are lifted effective at the passage of this motion. Jayjg is reminded that articles in the area of conflict, which is identical to the area of conflict as defined by the Palestine-Israel articles case, remain the subject of discretionary sanctions; should he edit within this topic area, those discretionary sanctions continue to apply.

For the Arbitration Committee,
NW (Talk) 18:49, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

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Ban appeal by User:Turbotad

The Arbitration Committee en banc has allowed the appeal of:

• Turbotad (talk · contribs · logs)

The details of the decision have been posted on the editor's talk page.

For the Arbitration Committee,  Roger ^talk 10:19, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

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Sanctions appeal by User:Koavf

Resolved by motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:

The restrictions placed upon Koavf (talk · contribs) in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Koavf and in User:Koavf/Community sanction are terminated, effective immediately. Koavf is reminded to edit in the future in full accordance with all Wikipedia policies and guidelines.

For the Arbitration Committee,
NW (Talk) 05:24, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II

This Arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following remedies have been passed:

• Communicat (talk · contribs) is prohibited from editing or commenting on articles about World War II or the Aftermath of World War II. This prohibition is of indefinite duration, but may be appealed to the Committee by Communicat after six months;
• Communicat is placed under a behavioral editing restriction for a period of one year.

For the Arbitration Committee,
AGK [•] 15:56, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

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User:X!, our new Arbitration clerk

The Arbitration clerks would like to welcome User:X! to the clerk team as a trainee!

At the same time, the call for volunteers that we issued last week is still applicable. Users who would like to join the clerk team, whether they be administrators or not, are welcome to apply by sending an email to clerks-l@lists.wikimedia.org. NW (Talk) 17:59, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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Appeal to BASC: SanchiTachi

The Ban Appeals Subcommittee has allowed the appeal of:

• SanchiTachi (talk · contribs)

The text of the decision has been posted on the editor's talk page.

For the Arbitration Committee, Shell ^babelfish 19:26, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

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Request for comments on the Audit Subcommittee

The Arbitration Committee has conducted an internal review of the Audit Subcommittee and is now seeking comment from the community, in particular about the subcommittee's effectiveness to date and ongoing representation from community delegates ("at-large members").

As the October 2009 election yielded few candidates relative to the number of seats available, it has been suggested that filling the non-arbitrator positions by appointment after community consultation (similar to the previous round of CU/OS appointments) would attract a greater number of suitably qualified candidates.

It has also been suggested that greater numbers of community delegates be appointed to ensure adequate ongoing community representation. Should a sufficient number of suitable candidates apply, the committee will appoint three "primary members" along with a number of "standby members" (who will also receive the CheckUser and Oversight privileges) and would stand in should a primary member become inactive or be unable to hear a particular case.

Comments are invited about the above, as well as any other general comments about the Audit Subcommittee. The Arbitration Committee would like to thank outgoing community members Dominic, Jredmond, and MBisanz for their patience and continued participation on the subcommittee while this review process is ongoing.

The next call for applications is provisionally scheduled for 20 February 2011.

For the Arbitration Committee, –xeno^talk 18:00, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

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Changes in CheckUser/Oversight permissions

Effective 1 February 2011, Keegan (talk · contribs) returns to the ranks of Oversighters. Keegan took a leave of absence from this responsibility while he was a WMF Community Associate during the recent successful fundraising drive.

At the completion of his term as a member of the WMF Ombudsman Commission, Lar (talk · contribs) will be returning to the ranks of CheckUsers. On behalf of the English Wikipedia, we thank Lar for taking on this appointment and representing this and other projects on the Commission.

FloNight (talk · contribs) has accepted an appointment to the Ombudsman Commission effective February of this year. We congratulate FloNight on her appointment, and thank her for representing this and other projects on the Commission. During her term as a member of the Commission, FloNight's permissions will change to global permissions, and she will not be acting as a local CheckUser or Oversighter.

For the Arbitration Committee, Risker (talk) 23:43, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

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Ban appeal by Justanother / Justallofthem

The Arbitration Committee has allowed the appeal of:

• Justanother (talk · contribs)

who has elected to edit as:

• Lyncs (talk · contribs)

The text of the decision has been posted on Lync's talk page.

For the Arbitration Committee,  Roger ^talk 13:12, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

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Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list

Resolved by motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list that: The Eastern European mailing list case is supplemented as follows:

The topic ban placed upon Piotrus (talk · contribs) in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Eastern European mailing list and subsequent motions is lifted, effective immediately. Piotrus is reminded that further disruption related to this case may result in the topic ban or other remedies being re-imposed by the Committee.

For the Arbitration Committee, Dougweller (talk) 09:56, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

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Arbitration motions regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking

The Arbitration Committee has considered and passed 2 motions regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking. They are listed below:

By a vote of 12-0:

Remedy 18 of the Date delinking case, which limits Ohconfucius (talk · contribs) to using a single account, is amended by adding the sentence: "He may also use a separate bot account for any bot task or tasks approved by the bot approvals group."

By a separate vote of a 12-0:

Remedy 7.1 of the Date delinking case, which as originally written prohibited Lightmouse (talk · contribs) from utilizing any automation on Wikipedia, is amended by adding the words "except for a bot task or group of related tasks authorized by the bot approvals group." Remedy 8, which limited Lightmouse to using a single account, is amended by adding the sentence: "He may also use a separate bot account for any bot task or group of related tasks approved by the bot approvals group."

For the Arbitration Committee,
NW (Talk) 15:22, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Shakespeare authorship question closed

An arbitration case regarding the Shakespeare authorship question has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:

1. Standard discretionary sanctions are enacted for all articles related to the Shakespeare authorship question;
2. NinaGreen (talk · contribs) is banned from Wikipedia for a period of one year;
3. NinaGreen is topic-banned indefinitely from editing any article relating (broadly construed) to the Shakespeare authorship question, William Shakespeare, or Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford;
4. The Arbitration Committee endorses the community sanction imposed on Smatprt (talk · contribs). Thus, Smatprt remains topic-banned from editing articles relating to William Shakespeare, broadly construed, for one year from November 3, 2010.

For the Arbitration Committee, AGK [•] 20:55, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Longevity closed

An arbitration case regarding Longevity has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:

1. Standard discretionary sanctions are enacted for all articles related to Longevity (broadly interpreted);
2. Ryoung122 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely prohibited from editing, commenting on, or otherwise participating in any Wikipedia process related to articles about longevity (broadly interpreted);
3. John J. Bulten (talk · contribs) is banned from Wikipedia for a period of one year;
4. WikiProject World's Oldest People is urged to seek experienced Wikipedia editors who will act as mentors to the project and assist members in improving their editing and their understanding of Wikipedia policies and community norms;
5. Within seven days of the conclusion of this case, all parties must either delete evidence sub-pages in their user space or request deletion of them using the {{db-author}} or {{db-self}} template.

For the Arbitration Committee, AGK [•] 22:10, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

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Audit Subcommittee vacancies: Call for applications

The Arbitration Committee is seeking to appoint at least three non-arbitrator members to the Audit Subcommittee.

The Audit Subcommittee ("AUSC") was established by the Arbitration Committee to investigate complaints concerning the use of CheckUser and Oversight privileges on the English Wikipedia, and to provide better monitoring and oversight of the CheckUser and Oversight positions, and use of the applicable tools.

Matters brought before the subcommittee may be time-sensitive and subcommittee members should be prepared and available to discuss cases promptly so they may be resolved in a timely manner. Sitting subcommittee members are expected to actively participate in AUSC proceedings and may be replaced should they become inactive. All subcommittee members are subject to the relevant local and global policies and guidelines concerning CheckUser and Oversight.

If you think you may be suitably qualified, please see the appointments page for further information. The application period is scheduled to close 7 March 2011.

For the Arbitration Committee, –xeno^talk 23:20, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

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User:Rodhullandemu

Rodhullandemu (talk · contribs)

Background

This user has engaged in conduct unbecoming an administrator including: placing blocks and page protections when involved; engaging in personal attacks and incivility; as well as feuding and edit-warring.

Motion

Rodhullandemu's administrator status is revoked. He may apply for adminship at a future date by the usual means to the community.

Support

Casliber, Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry, Coren, Elen of the Roads, Jclemens, John Vandenberg, Kirill, PhilKnight, Risker, Roger Davies, Shell Kinney, SirFozzie, xeno

Oppose

none

Not voting or inactive

Cool Hand Luke, David Fuchs, Iridescent, Mailer diablo, Newyorkbrad

For the Arbitration Committee,  Roger ^talk 02:20, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

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