Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-05-28/Arbitration report
Arbitration report
The Report on Lengthy Litigation
The
WP:BLP and related issues currently stands at 6/3/1/0
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The committee is also considering whether to lift
), and instead to impose probation and a revert parole, without a full hearing. Currently, voting stands at 5/0/0/1, but some editors have expressed concerns over whether it is appropriate to deal with the case by summary motion.Closed cases
- revert parole.
- Henrygb: A case filed by David Gerard alleging that administrator Henrygb (talk · contribs) had used sockpuppets disruptively. As a result of the case, Henrygb was desysopped, limited to one account, and banned from Wikipedia until he addresses the committee's concerns.
Evidence phase
- Community sanction noticeboard.
- revert warring.
- 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. Abu badali denies the allegations.
- Lewis Libbyarticle.
- ), who was listed as a party in the new case.)
- attribution, on "articles on paranormal and pseudoscientific topics", such as parapsychology and Electronic voice phenomenon.
Voting phase
- incidents noticeboard. Kirill Lokshin has proposed remedies imposing no sanctions but calling on the parties to enter into mediation, as well as a finding of fact noting the lack of reliable evidence in the case, all of which have the support of four arbitrators. However, voting on principles regarding the posting of private e-mails is split.
- 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. TingMing denies the allegations, and alleges incivility on the part of Ideogram. Kirill Lokshin has proposed a remedy banning TingMing for one year, which has the support of three arbitrators, but is opposed by Blnguyen.
- Community enforceable mediation, but the mediation broke down after Tajik was alleged to have edited through sockpuppets while claiming to be away and unavailable for the mediation. Remedies have been proposed banning Tajik either indefinitely or for one year (which have the support of four arbitrators), and placing E104221 on revert parole (with the support of one arbitrator).
- 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. Fred Bauder has proposed remedies, with the support of four arbitrators, banning MarkStreet (talk · contribs), William Mauco (talk · contribs), MariusM (talk · contribs) and EvilAlex (talk · contribs) indefinitely from any editing related to Transnistria. Alternative proposals indefinitely banning them from the project have the support of two arbitrators, plus one "second choice".
- 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 (between nine and eleven) 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, and four have opposed.
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