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Arbitration report
The Report on Lengthy Litigation
The Arbitration Committee opened one new case this week, and closed one case.
Closed case
- TingMing: A case involving the actions of TingMing (talk · contribs). Ideogram (talk · contribs) alleged that he had engaged in "controversial edits", edit warring, incivility, and possibly sockpuppetry. As a result of the case, TingMing, who was already blocked while the case was ongoing, was banned for one year.
New case
- Thatcher131alleges on the talkpage that jkb has himself revealed personal information on Zacheus.
Evidence phase
- 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.
Voting phase
- Community sanction noticeboard. Kirill Lokshin has proposed a motion to dismiss, with the support of four arbitrators.
- WP:BLP takes priority over DRV. A peripheral issue to the case is a 60-hour block of Badlydrawnjeff by Zsinj, apparently after discussions on the admin IRC channel, although some have stated that the consensus on the channel did not favour the block. The block was quickly undone by Gaillimh. Additionally, some allege that violetriga acted improperly in undeleting some articles deleted under BLP. Kirill Lokshin has proposed principles to the effect that the overriding principle with respect to BLPs should be "do no harm", and that suspected violations may be speedy deleted, but that these may be contested through the normal channels, although they must not be restored until consensus has formed to do so, and remedies cautioning or admonishing Violetriga and Night Gyrto avoid undeleting content deleted under BLP, all of which have the support of nine to ten arbitrators. Various remedies relating to Badlydrawnjeff have been proposed, but none has so far achieved a majority, except for one cautioning him "to adhere to the letter and the spirit of the Biographies of Living Persons policy", which stands at six to two.
- ), who was listed as a party in the new case.) An amnesty for past behaviour in editing disputes on articles relating to Eastern Europe has the support of two arbitrators. Voting on other remedies is split.
- attribution, on "articles on paranormal and pseudoscientific topics", such as parapsychology and Electronic voice phenomenon. Proposals placing paranormal-related articles on article probation, limiting editors on them to one revert per week, and cautioning Dradin and Kazubahave the support of two arbitrators; voting on other remedies is split.
- incidents noticeboard. Various remedies have been proposed including an early proposal to impose no sanctions on any of the parties but calling on the parties to enter into mediation, based on a finding of fact noting a lack of reliable evidence in the case, but a proposal to prohibit administrator actions between the parties has the support of six arbitrators, and a recent proposal to desysop Rama's Arrow (who recently resigned adminship) stands at five-to-two. Voting on principles regarding the posting of private e-mails is split but it appears that a majority of arbitrators will support the principle that private e-mails may not be posted on-wiki without the consent of the sender.
Motion to close
- 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. If closed, Tajik would be banned for one year, and his community ban would be endorsed, and AzaTothwould be reminded that Wikipedia operates by consensus.
- 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. If closed, MarkStreet (talk · contribs), William Mauco (talk · contribs) and EvilAlex (talk · contribs) would be indefinitely banned from any editing related to Transnistria. However, Jdforrester has opposed the motion to close, calling for remedies against MariusM.
Under review
- Certified.Gangsta-Ideogram: A review of the Certified.Gangsta-Ideogram case. Ideogram and Sean William allege that Certified.Gangsta has engaged in tendentious editing since the main case.
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