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Arbitration report
The Report on Lengthy Litigation
The Arbitration Committee accepted one new case this week, and closed one case.
Closed case
- 3RRviolations, block evasion, and edit-warring. As a result of the case, Vlad federov was banned for one year.
New case
- DavidShankBone. Fred Bauder has proposed a remedy advising THF to "rely more on negotiation with other users and less on legalistic citing of policies and guidelines when disputes arise".
Evidence phase
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- DreamGuy 2: A case involving alleged persistent incivility by DreamGuy.
- Dalmatia: A case involving a dispute between Italian and Croatian editors on articles relating to the Dalmatia region.
- SevenOfDiamonds: A case involving alleged abusive sockpuppetry and other misconduct by SevenOfDiamonds. SevenOfDiamonds vigorously denies the allegations, and alleges that MONGO has harassed him.
- Digwuren: A case involving alleged POV-pushing and incivility by Digwurenand alleged sockpuppets.
Voting phase
- Artaxerex: 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. A remedy banning Artaxerex has the support of three arbitrators.
- Jmfangio-Chrisjnelson: A case involving alleged edit warring, hostility and incivility between Jmfangio and Chrisjnelson. Jmfangio has been indefinitely blocked after checkuser confirmed that this account is the reincarnation of a community banned editor.
- 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 an amnesty for past actions currently has a majority.
- 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 five arbitrators, and one encouraging the parties to continue with the normal consensus-building procedure has seven.
- Anynobody from harassing Justanotherhas the support of eight arbitrators, and one placing Scientology articles on article probation has four.
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