Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-09-17/Arbitration report
Arbitration report
The Report on Lengthy Litigation
The Arbitration Committee accepted two new cases this week, and closed no cases.
New cases
- WP:NPAshould prohibit links from articles in the mainspace to websites which include pages attacking Wikipedia editors.
- WP:NPOV violations on the Liancourt Rocksarticle.
Evidence phase
- Bharatveer: A case involving alleged edit-warring, incivility and personal attacks by Bharatveer on India-related articles.
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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
- DavidShankBone. A motion banning THF from politically charged topics has the support of two arbitrators.
- WP:NPOVhave 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. Voting on most proposals is split.
- 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.
- Anynobody from harassing Justanotherhas the support of six to eight arbitrators, and one placing Scientology articles on article probation has six.
Motion to close
- 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. If closed, Maurice27 would be banned for thirty days, and the parties encouraged to continue with the normal consensus-building procedure.
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