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This is an archive of the results of all cases completed by the Arbitration Committee in 2004. There were a total of 35 cases closed in 2004.

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2004

35 cases.

• Six cases
• VeryVerily - Closed on 27 Dec 2004, in light of Gzornenplatz, Kevin Baas, Shorne, VeryVerily.
• Turrican and VeryVerily - Closed on 27 Dec 2004, in light of Gzornenplatz, Kevin Baas, Shorne, VeryVerily.
• Shorne and Fred Bauder - Closed on 27 Dec 2004, in light of Gzornenplatz, Kevin Baas, Shorne, VeryVerily. Subject to reactivation should Shorne return.
• Gzornenplatz, Kevin Baas, Shorne, VeryVerily - Decided on 22 December, 2004. Shorne and VeryVerily banned for two weeks, Gzornenplatz and Ruy Lopez for one. Gzornenplatz, Shorne, and VV placed on revert parole. Gzornenplatz, Shorne, and VV limited to 1 revert per articles per 24 hours, and required to discuss all edits.
• Arminius Closed without action taken on 16 December, 2004, after all participants requested the matter dropped.
• Reithy Closed without action taken on 3 December, 2004, temporary injunction expires that date.

• Eight cases
• Cantus vs. Guanaco - Decided on 24 November, 2004. Cantus is limited to one revert per article per day and prohibited from editing Siberia or Clitoris. Guanaco must re-apply for adminship.
• Irismeister 3 - Decided on 20 November, 2004. Irismeister is banned for one year. The personal attack parole on Irismeister is also altered: if he makes further personal attacks or legal threats, he may be banned for a period of up to one month, or up to one year in more extreme cases.
• Avala - Decided on 17 November, 2004. Avala is required to follow majority opinion for one month, and required to cite sources supporting his claims for three months. Should he start to edit regularly again, he would be on probation for one year.
• Rex071404 2 - Closed on 16 November, 2004, following his departure from Wikipedia.
• Lance6wins - Decided on 12 November, 2004. Lance6wins is banned from editing any article relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Zero000 is desysopped for two weeks and on probation for two months thereafter.
• Rex071404 - Closed on 12 November, 2004, following his departure from Wikipedia.
• Jimmyvanthach - Decided on 12 November, 2004. Jimmyvanthach, Celindgrenand, and Tran Van Ba are prohibited from editing any article related to the Vietnamese royal family and recent Vietnamese history/politics.
• RickK vs. Guanaco (ab initio "The Matter of Michael") - Jimbo unbanning Michael made the matter mostly moot. The only remedy was to award Guanaco for creative problem solving.

• Four cases
• RK - Decided October 14, 2004. RK is banned from Wikipedia for 4 months. Further, he is banned from all articles directly or indirectly related to Judaism for 1 year.
• Orthogonal - Closed October 14, 2004, following his departure from Wikipedia. Subject to reactivation should he return.
• JRR Trollkien - Closed October 2, 2004, with no findings of fact or decision. JRR Trollkien has long since left.
• Kenneth Alan - Decided October 1, 2004, User:Kenneth Alan banned for one year. Enforcement provisions may be added before case is formally closed.

• Four cases
• K1 - Closed on 28 Sep 2004 with an open verdict after.
• ChrisO and Levzur Closed on 20 Sep 2004 with an open verdict; no ruling necessary, as Levzur has ceased contributing to Wikipedia.
• User:PolishPoliticians - Decided on 18 Sep 2004, personal attack parole applied to PolishPoliticians and all new accounts on affected pages.
• Lyndon LaRouche (Herschelkrustofsky, Adam Carr, John Kenney, and AndyL) - Decided on 12 Sep 2004, Adam Carr and Herschelkrustofsky are both banned for one day, and all editors of Lyndon LaRouche are warned regarding promotional material on that page.

• Four cases
• User:Guanaco versus User:Lir - Decided on 30 Aug 2004 to warn sysops to follow proper blocking guidelines.
• Mr-Natural-Health - Decided on 26 Aug 2004. There was an earlier partial decision on 25 June.
• Lir - Decided on 23 Aug 2004, blocked for 15 days, revert parole applied, and other remedies.
• Cantus - Decided on 01 Aug 2004, apply a revert parole to Cantus and other remedies.

• Two cases
• Mav v. 168 - Closed on 03 July 2004 with an open verdict.
• Irismeister 2 - Decided on 03 July 2004 to apply a personal attack parole. For discussion and voting on this matter see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Irismeister 2/Proposed decision.

• One case
• Wik2 - Decided at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Wik2/Decided on 21 May 2004.

• One case
• Paul Vogel - Decided on 10 May 2004 to ban Vogel for one year. Further discussion and proposals are available at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Paul Vogel/Proposals.

• One case
• Anthony DiPierro - Decided on 25th April 2004 to instruct Anthony with regards to his VfD edits, and refer other issues to mediation. The vote was unanimous with 6 votes in favour and 4 de-facto abstentions. Note that the case was accepted solely to investigate use of VfD.

• Three cases
• Irismeister - Decided on 31st March 2004 that Irismeister would be banned from editing all pages for ten days, and banned from editing Iridology indefinitely. Decision can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Irismeister/Decision.
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Wik/Decision
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• Plautus satire vs Raul654 - Decided on 11th March 2004 that Plautus satire is to be banned for one year, up to and including March 11 2005. The vote was unanimous with 8 votes in favour and 1 de-facto abstention; a further vote in favour of extending the ban indefinitely was held but not met.