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This is an archive of the results of all cases completed by the Arbitration Committee in 2005. There were a total of 100 cases closed in 2005.

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2005

102 cases.

• Ten cases
• Wilkes, Wyss and Onefortyone - Decided on 24 December 2005. Ted Wilkes and Wyss are both placed on probation indefinitely; both are banned from making edits related to a person's alleged sexual orientation.
• Nobs01 and others - Decided on 23 December 2005. The editing ban ruled on Lyndon LaRouche 2 is expanded to include articles Chip Berlet, Political Research Associates, and Dennis King. Nobs01 is banned for one year (until 23 December 2006); is placed on indefinite probation, allowing three administrators to place restrictions on his editing, including a general ban. Cognition is banned for one month (until 23 January 2006); placed on indefinite personal attack parole; is banned from Lyndon LaRouche-related articles per the prior arbitration case. Herschelkrustofsky is placed on a one-year probation, allowing three administrators to place restrictions on his editing, including a general ban. Rangerdude is placed on a one-year probation, allowing administrators to ban Rangerdude from any article where the user's editing is considered disruptive.
• Ultramarine - Decided on 23 December 2005. Ultramarine, Pmanderson, and Robert A. West are instructed to reach a consensus on the article Democratic peace theory. If any of them persist in sterile revert warring, admins may block them for a short period (up to a week) for each revert.
• FuelWagon v. Ed Poor - Decided on 23 December 2005. FuelWagon is banned for six months (until 23 June 2006); is limited to one revert per article per week; is placed on indefinite general probation, allowing any three administrators to place limitations on his editing. Ed Poor is desysopped.
• Climate change dispute 2/SEWilco - Decided on 23 December 2005. SEWilco is placed on indefinite probation; is cautioned not to strictly apply Arbitration Committee rulings; is prohibited from converting citation styles, either by bot or manually. The one revert parole placed on William M. Connolley in the prior case is removed
• Regarding Ted Kennedy - Decided on 20 December 2005. Labgal, FishingGuy99, and 24.147.97.230 are banned for three months (until 20 March 2006). Those users and any users with similar editing patterns are banned from Kennedy family-related articles and talk pages for one year (until 20 December 2006).
• Rangerdude - Decided on 18 December 2005. Rangerdude is placed on a one-year probation. Rangerdude and Willcmw are both admonished regarding their actions with respect to separate Wikipedians with their own articles. Cberlet and Nskinsella are cautioned to avoid over-involvement in the articles about themselves. Nskinsella is cautioned to avoid personal attacks.
• Pigsonthewing - Decided on 9 December 2005. Pigsonthewing is banned for one day; is placed indefinite probation; is limited to one revert per article per week, excluding simple vandalism, for a period of one year. Karmafist is prohibited from any administrator activity which relates to Pigsonthewing.
  • Amended by open motion on 25 January 2006. Pigsonthewing is banned for one year (until 25 January 2007).
• Rex071404 4 - Decided on 6 December 2005. Rex071404 is permanently banned from editing the John Kerry article; If Rex should begin similiar problematic editing at any other article, any admin may prohibit him from editing on that page.
• Instantnood 2 - Decided on 4 December 2005. Instantnood, Huaiwei, and SchmuckyTheCat are all placed on probation for one year in regard to China-related articles. Instantnood is restricted to proposing only one page move, poll of editors, or policy change relating to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese) per week.

• Fourteen cases
• Silverback - Decided on 28 November 2005. Silverback is placed on personal attack parole for six months (until 28 April 2006); Is limited to one revert per article, per week.
• Maoririder - Decided on 26 November 2005. Maoririder is placed under a mentorship.
• Lightbringer - Decided on 23 November 2005. Lightbringer is placed on personal attack parole for six months (until 23 July 2006); is banned indefinitely from editing any article or talk page related to freemasonry, and may be briefly blocked, up to a week, in the case of repeat offenses. After 5 blocks, the maximum length of a block shall increase to one year.
  • Amended: Banned for one year
• Stevertigo - Decided on 18 November 2005. Stevertigo is desysopped.
• Polygamy - Decided on 14 November 2005. Researcher99 is banned indefinitely from editing articles which relate to polygamy, and may be briefly blocked, up to a week, in the case of repeat offenses. After 5 blocks, the maximum length of a block shall increase to one year.
• REX - Decided on 14 November 2005. Matia.gr, Theathenae, and REX are placed on personal attack parole.
• Louis Epstein - Decided on 12 November 2005. Louis Epstein, editing under any user name, as 12.144.5.2 or any other anonymous IP, may be briefly blocked if he neglects use of conventional punctuation. During 2005 no block shall exceed one day. During 2006 no block shall exceed one week. During 2007 no block shall exceed one month. Thereafter no block shall exceed one year.
  • This decision is not to be enforced so long as Babajobu is fixing Louis Epstein's punctuation habits as per his voluntary offer [1].
• Zephram Stark - Decided on 12 November 2005. Zephram Stark is banned for six months; is placed on probation for one year (until 12 November 2006); is banned from Terrorism and all related articles.
• jguk 2 - Decided on 11 November 2005. Jguk is indefinitely prohibited from changing BCE to BC or CE to AD in any article, for any reason, and may be briefly banned, up to a week in the case of repeated offenses.
  • Extended by Sortan on 25 February 2006 (see above).
• Bogdanov Affair
  which which briefly explains that the Wikipedia article has, in part, been conflated with the external event, the Bogdanov Affair, due to participation in editing of the article by participants in the event.
• Everyking 3 - Decided on 11 November 2005. Everyking is prohibited for one year from posting to the administrator's noticeboard and subpages thereof; is prohibited from making comments on non-editorial actions taken by other administrators other than on the administrator's talk page, a Request for comment, or a Request for arbitration; is required to familiarize himself with the particulars of a situation before commenting on it.
  • Amended by Open Motion on 29 December 2005. Everyking shall not interact with, or comment in any way (directly or indirectly) about, Snowspinner, on any page in Wikipedia.
  • Amended by Open Motion on 16:11, 22 February 2008 (UTC). See Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Everyking_3#Modified_by_open_motion.
• BigDaddy777 - Decided on 9 November 2005. BigDaddy777 is banned for one year; is banned indefinitely from editing on topics related to American politics. Should BigDaddy777 be released by any administrator from the indefinite block imposed on him the other remedies imposed in this decision shall take effect at that point.
• DreamGuy - Closed on 7 November 2005 without action.
• Onefortyone - Decided on 3 November 2005. Onefortyone is placed on probation with respect to the biographies of celebrities. He may be banned from any article or talk page relating to a celebrity which he disrupts by aggressively attempting to insert poorly sourced information or original research.