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Arbitration motion regarding Race and intelligence

The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:

The editing restrictions placed on Ferahgo the Assassin (talk · contribs) as unban conditions in March 2014 and modified by motion in September 2016 are modified as follows:

Ferahgo the Assassin's topic ban from the race and intelligence topic area, broadly construed, is rescinded.
All restrictions on Ferahgo the Assassin's participation in dispute resolution are rescinded.
The two-way interaction ban between Ferahgo the Assassin and Mathsci (talk · contribs) remains in force.

These modifications will be subject to a probationary period lasting six months from the date this motion is enacted. During this period, any uninvolved administrator may re-impose the former editing restrictions as an arbitration enforcement action, subject to appeal only to the Arbitration Committee. If the probationary period elapses without incident, the above modifications are to be considered permanently enacted.

For the Arbitration Committee, GoldenRing (talk) 11:05, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Alex Shih: Statement from the Arbitration Committee

The Arbitration Committee feel it is appropriate to elaborate on the reasons for

Wikipedia:Checkuser policy multiple times. In addition, arbitrators felt that he had committed other breaches of confidentiality in his use of private information received whilst on the Arbitration Committee. In August 2018, the Committee confronted Alex Shih with these concerns. Shortly afterwards, Alex resigned from the Committee and gave up the Checkuser and Oversight user rights. The Arbitration Committee considers this resignation to have been under controversial circumstances. The matter was also referred to the meta:Ombudsman Commission

by a group of functionaries including several arbitrators when the extent of the actions came to light.

Support: AGK, BU Rob13, GorillaWarfare, KrakatoaKatie, Mkdw, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, SilkTork, Worm That Turned
Abstain: Joe Roe
Not voting:
Inactive: Callanecc, Courcelles

For the Arbitration Committee Worm^TT(talk) 19:37, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Alex Shih: Statement from the Arbitration Committee

Arbitration motion regarding The Troubles, Irish nationalism, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland

The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:

Remedy 5 of The Troubles is amended to read:
5)
Standard discretionary sanctions are authorised for all pages relating to The Troubles
, Irish nationalism, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland, broadly construed.

The section #One revert rule of the same case is superseded by the following additional remedy:
6) As a standard discretionary sanction, a
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Enforcement, with notifications to be posted, at a minimum, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ireland and Talk:The Troubles
.

All active restrictions placed under the previous remedies remain in force.

Remedy 1.1 of Great Irish Famine is marked as superseded. The article, now at Great Famine (Ireland), is within the scope of the discretionary sanctions authorised under The Troubles.

For the Arbitration Committee, Bradv🍁 02:42, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 38#Arbitration motion regarding The Troubles, Irish nationalism, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GiantSnowman closed

An arbitration case regarding GiantSnowman has now closed, and the final decision is available at the link above. The following remedy has been enacted:

GiantSnowman is admonished for overuse of the rollback and blocking functions, and reminded to
exception of obvious vandalism
, he is subject to the following restrictions:
He may not revert another editor's contribution without providing an explanation in the edit summary. This includes use of MediaWiki's rollback function, any tool or script that provides a similar function, and any manual revert without an edit summary. Default edit summaries, such as those provided by the undo function or Twinkle's rollback feature, are not sufficient for the purpose of this sanction

He may not block an editor without first using at least three escalating messages and template warnings

He may not consecutively block an editor; after one block he is advised to consult with another admin or bring the matter to the attention of the community

He may not place a warning template on an editor's talk page without having first placed an appropriate self-composed message containing links to relevant policies and guidelines

He may not place more than five consecutive warning templates or messages; after which he is advised to consult with another admin

He may not use MassRollback.js
Violations may be reported by any editor to
WP:AE
. GiantSnowman may appeal any or all of these sanctions, including the review itself, directly to the Arbitration Committee at any time.

For the Arbitration Committee, Bradv🍁 18:38, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GiantSnowman closed

Amendment request: Crouch, Swale clarification request

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

The restriction on page creation imposed on Crouch, Swale (talk · contribs) as part of their unban conditions in January 2018 is modified as follows:

Crouch, Swale is permitted to create new pages outside of mainspace such as talkpages and AfD pages.
Crouch, Swale is permitted to create new articles only by creating them in his userspace or in the draft namespace and then submitting them to the Articles for Creation process for review. He is permitted to submit no more than one article every seven days. This restriction includes the creation of new content at a title that is a redirect or disambiguation page.
The one-account restriction and prohibition on moving or renaming pages outside of userspace remain in force.

For the Arbitration Committee, Bradv🍁 22:29, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Amendment request: Crouch, Swale clarification request

Arbitration motion regarding Alex Shih

The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:

The "Alex Shih" request for arbitration is accepted. Given that Alex Shih (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has retired from the English Wikipedia, this case will be opened but suspended for a duration not to exceed one year, during which time Alex Shih will be temporarily desysopped.

If Alex Shih should return to active editing on the English Wikipedia during this time and request that this case be resumed, the Arbitration Committee shall unsuspend the case by motion and proceed through the normal arbitration process. Such a request may be made by email to arbcom-enwikimedia.org or at the

Clerks' noticeboard

.

If such a request is not made within one year of the "Alex Shih" case being opened and suspended, this case shall be automatically closed, and Alex Shih shall remain desysopped. He may regain the administrative tools at any time via a successful

request for adminship

.

For the Arbitration Committee --Cameron₁₁₅₉₈ ^(Talk) 05:54, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Arbitration motion regarding Alex Shih

New OTRS queues

In an

privacy or outing

. To better allow the functionary team to investigate instances of abusive paid editing where private evidence is a factor, the Arbitration Committee has established the paid-en-wp OTRS queue to receive such private evidence. The email address associated with this queue is paid-en-wp

wikipedia.org. The queue will be reviewed by a subset of arbitrators and interested local CheckUsers, who will investigate all reports and take any necessary action.

This queue is not a replacement for existing community processes to address abusive paid editing. In particular, all public evidence related to abusive paid editing should continue to be submitted at the appropriate community noticeboards, such as Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. Private reports that do not contain private evidence or can be sufficiently handled by existing community processes will be redirected accordingly. Reports will also be redirected to the Arbitration Committee as a whole, where appropriate.

Further, the checkuser-en-wp OTRS queue has been established to allow private requests for CheckUser to be sent to the local CheckUser team. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to checkuser-en-wpwikipedia.org rather than the functionaries-en list. Similar to the above, all private requests that can be sufficiently handled by existing community processes, such as

WP:SPI

, will be redirected accordingly.

The Arbitration Committee would like to note that the creation of these queues was endorsed by the 2018 Arbitration Committee, with the announcement delayed into the new year as the queues were organized and created.

For the Arbitration Committee, ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 16:25, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#New OTRS queues

Permissions restored to There'sNoTime

checkuser and oversight

permissions are restored by the committee, effective immediately.

For the Arbitration Committee,

■ 22:30, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply

]

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Return of permissions to There'sNoTime

Arbitration motion regarding Eastern Europe and Macedonia

The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:

At Amendment II in Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe is replaced as text by Eastern Europe or the Balkans. Remedy 3 in Macedonia is superseded by this amendment.

For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 23:26, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Arbitration motion regarding Eastern Europe and Macedonia

Changes to functionary team

By motion, in accordance with the Committee's procedure on functionary permissions and inactivity, the CheckUser and Oversight permissions of Ks0stm (talk · contribs) are removed.

Support: AGK, BU Rob13, GorillaWarfare, Joe Roe, KrakatoaKatie, Worm That Turned.
Oppose: None.
Not voting: Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore.
Inactive: Callanecc, Courcelles, Mkdw, SilkTork.

At their own request, the CheckUser permission of Keegan (talk · contribs) and the Oversight permission of Sphilbrick (talk · contribs) are removed.

The Arbitration Committee sincerely thanks Keegan, Ks0stm, and Sphilbrick for their service. The Committee is also grateful to the current CheckUser and Oversight permission holders for their invaluable contributions as functionaries.

For the Arbitration Committee, Katie^talk 00:44, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Changes to functionary team