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This is an archive of the results of all cases completed by the Arbitration Committee in 2020.

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2020

8 cases.

• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Horn of Africa#Final decision provisionally closed by motion 9 December 2020 (AN notice)
  • Standard
    discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa
    (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes) for a trial period of three months and until further decision of this Committee. After March 1, 2021 (or sooner if there is good reason), any editor may ask that this request be reopened for the purpose of evaluating whether the discretionary sanctions have been effective and should be made permanent or if a full case should be accepted to consider different or additional remedies.

• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine#Final decision closed 03 June 2020 (AN notice)
  • Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles. Any uninvolved administrator may apply sanctions as an arbitration enforcement action to users editing in this topic area, after an initial warning.
  • CFCF is reminded to avoid casting aspersions and similar conduct in the future.
  • Doc James is prohibited from making any edits relating to pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing in the article namespace.
  • QuackGuru is indefinitely
    topic-banned
    from articles relating to medicine, broadly construed.

• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog#Final decision closed 13 April 2020 (AN notice)
  • banned
    from the English Wikipedia. He may request reconsideration of the ban twelve months after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.

• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Motorsports#Final decision closed 30 March 2020 (AN notice)
  • interacting with, or commenting on, each other anywhere on Wikipedia (subject to the ordinary exceptions
    ).

• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/RHaworth#Final decision closed 01 February 2020 (AN notice)
  • For his failure to meet the standards expected of an administrator, including repeated misuse of the deletion tool, RHaworth's administrative user rights are removed. RHaworth may regain administrative user rights at any time via a successful request for adminship.
  • Administrators are reminded that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Alex Shih closed 12 February 2020 (AN notice)

• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kudpung#Final decision closed 29 February 2020 (AN notice)
  • For his failure to meet the conduct standards expected of an administrator, Kudpung's administrative user rights are removed. He may regain them at any time via a successful request for adminship.
  • Kudpung is admonished for failing to meet the conduct standards expected of an administrator. In future, he is urged to ensure that he remains civil in his interactions with both new and regular editors, and responds to feedback on his conduct objectively and with an assumption of good faith.
  • Arbitration is supposed to be the final step in the dispute resolution process. The community is reminded that attempting to have a community-wide discussion of problematic behavior early on can prevent unnecessary escalations.

• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals#Final decision closed 29 January 2020 (AN notice)
  • BrownHairedGirl is prohibited from editing in the Portal: namespace or engaging in discussions about portals anywhere on Wikipedia. She may appeal this restriction in six months.
  • BrownHairedGirl is indefinitely restricted from interacting with or commenting about Northamerica1000 anywhere on Wikipedia, subject to the ordinary exceptions. This restriction may be appealed in six months.
  • For numerous violations of basic policies and generally failing to meet community expectations and responsibilities as outlined in Wikipedia:Administrators#Accountability and Wikipedia:Administrators#Administrator conduct, BrownHairedGirl is desysopped. She may regain the administrative tools at any time via a successful request for adminship.
  • The Arbitration Committee recommends that a well-publicized community discussion be held to establish a guideline for portals. The committee further recommends that this RfC be kept open for at least 30 days, be closed by a panel of 3 uninvolved administrators, and at a minimum address the following questions:
    • Topics: How broad or narrow should a topic area be for it to sustain a portal?
    • Page views: Should there be a minimum number of page views for a portal to be considered viable? How should those page views be measured?
    • WikiProjects: Should portals be required to be connected to an active WikiProject or other group of maintainers?
    • Updates: How often should a portal be updated?
    • Automation: Can automated tools be used in the creation or maintenance of portals?
    • Links to portals: How should portals be used? Should they be linked on all relevant Wikipedia articles, or should another method be used to ensure that portals are viewed and used?