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Arbitration report
The Report on Lengthy Litigation
The Arbitration Committee accepted three new cases this week, and closed three cases.
Closed cases
- GFDL violation, by Georgewilliamherbert and Alkivar, among others. The case was summarily dismissed, because the matter was satisfactorily resolvedwithin the community.
- List of Republics and related articles, involving the conduct of WHEELERand other editors. As a result of the case, WHEELER was banned for one year.
- Jeffrey O. Gustafson: A case brought by John254 alleging incivility and other misconduct by administrator Jeffrey O. Gustafson. As a result of the case, Mr. Gustafson's administrator privileges were suspended for 30 days.
New cases
- Digwuren: A case involving alleged POV-pushing and incivility by Digwurenand alleged sockpuppets.
- Artaxarex: A case involving alleged POV-pushing, incivility and sockpuppetry by Artaxerex. Artaxerex denies the allegations, and alleges that Shervink and others are focusing on getting him blocked, and that certain editors push an Iranian nationalist POV.
- Jmfangio-Chrisjnelson: A case involving alleged edit warring, hostility and incivility between Jmfangio and Chrisjnelson.
Voting phase
- Allegations of Israeli apartheidresulted in that article being kept. Issues have also been raised concerning comments made in deletion discussions and reviews. Several users who have created and edited the "Allegations of apartheid" articles have strongly denied any inappropriate conduct. Voting on most proposals is split, but those with a current majority include an amnesty for past actions, or restrictions enjoining various editors from participation related to allegations of ... apartheid articles.
- Catalonia: A case brought by Physchim62 involving alleged edit warring, possible sockpuppetry, and other misconduct by various editors on Catalonia, Valencian Community, and related articles. A proposal banning Maurice27 for thirty days has the support of three arbitrators, and one encouraging the parties to continue with the normal consensus-building procedure has five.
- 3RRviolations, block evasion, and edit-warring. A remedy banning Vlad federov for one year has the support of four arbitrators.
- Great Irish Famine and other Ireland/Northern Ireland articles. Arbitrators are voting on arbitrator Mackensen's proposals to place the Great Irish Famine article under the "mentorship" of three to five administrators and restrict Sarah777's editing, as well as proposals by arbitrator Kirill Lokshin that would ban Sarah777 from Wikipedia for one year and place MarkThomason civility parole.
- conflict of interest.
- Anynobody from harassing Justanotherhas the support of three arbitrators.
Motion to dismiss
- Vision Thing: A case initiated by Infinity0 concerning alleged edit-warring on anarchism, anarcho-capitalism, and related articles. The dispute has already been the subject of a prior arbitration case, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Infinity0, involving some of the same parties. A motion to dismiss the case for lack of evidence has the support of seven arbitrators.
Motion to close
- probationas well, and would impose identical remedies on any other editors who are identified as editing these articles aggressively and uncivilly.
27 August 2007
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