Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-05-14/Arbitration report
Arbitration report
The Report on Lengthy Litigation
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) without a full hearing.Closed cases
- article probation, Mcconnis placed on revert parole, and Samual Luo and Tomananda are banned from editing articles related to Falun Gong or their talk pages.
New cases
- Abu badali: A case alleging that Abu badali (talk · contribs) has disruptively tagged non-free images for deletion, even when a valid fair-use justification exists, and has harassed editors who have complained about this behavior.
- Henrygb: A case filed by David Gerard alleging that administrator Henrygb (talk · contribs) has used sockpuppets disruptively.
Evidence phase
- Lewis Libbyarticle.
- WP:AN/I
- ), who was listed a party in the new case.)
- TingMing: A case involving the actions of TingMing (talk · contribs). Ideogram (talk · contribs) alleges that he has engaged in "controversial edits", edit warring, incivility, and possibly sockpuppetry. TinMing denies the allegations, and alleges incivility on the part of Ideogram.
- WP:ATT, on "articles on paranormal and pseudoscientific topics", such as parapsychology and Electronic voice phenomenon.
- Transnistria: A case involving the actions of MariusM (talk · contribs) and William Mauco (talk · contribs) on Transnistria-related articles. MariusM alleges that Mauco (who has not made a statement because he is blocked) has engaged in sockpuppetry, edit warring and other misconduct.
- talk · contribs) who, while acknowledged as a productive contributor, has been called incivil on various occasions.
- Community enforceable mediationwas passed.
Voting
- Zeq-Zero0000: A case involving the actions of Zeq (talk · contribs) and Zero0000 (talk · contribs). Zero alleges that Zeq has engaged in POV-pushing, while Zeq alleges that Zero has misused administrative tools in blocking him, the case in particular involving the question of whether probations, article bans, etc. can be enforced by involved admins. The arbitrators have considered several different versions of a principle covering to what degree involved administrators may enforce probation; none yet has majority support. A majority of the arbitrators have voted to advise Zero0000 not to take further administrative actions against Zeq, including enforcement of probation, and to admonish Zero0000 that editors who are not restricted in their editing of a page or area are entitled to be accorded good faith and be treated with respect and courtesy. Arbitrator Fred Bauder proposed banning Zeq from editing articles related to the Israel-Palestine conflict, but no other arbitrator has voted in support.
Motion for unblock of Koavf
- Requests for arbitrationpage to unblock Koavf and place him on revert parole, without opening and considering a full arbitration case. The motion currently has the support of four arbitrators (out of 6 needed for a majority).
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