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Arbitration report
The Report on Lengthy Litigation
The Arbitration Committee accepted two new cases this week, and closed one case.
Closed case
- WP:NPOV.
New cases
- Martinphi-ScienceApologist: A case involving alleged POV-pushing and incivility on pseudoscience-related articles.
- Commodore Sloat-Biophys: A case wherein Biophys alleges that Commodore Sloat has been incivil and has edit-warred, while Sloat denies the allegations and alleges that Biophys has not been co-operative in the dispute.
Evidence phase
Voting phase
- Giovanni33-John Smith's: A case regarding actions taken with respect to a block of Giovanni33 in a dispute between him and John Smith's. Kirill Lokshin has proposed remedies restricting the editing of both parties for one year.
- Digwuren: A case involving alleged POV-pushing and incivility by Digwurenand alleged sockpuppets. Kirill Lokshin has proposed remedies banning and restricting the editing of a number of editors. James Forrester has opposed some of the proposals, but a general restriction on editors working on Eastern European-related articles has the support of three arbitrators.
- WP:NPOV violations on the Liancourt Rocks article. A remedy banning Wikimachinefor one year has the support of one arbitrator.
- Bharatveer: A case involving alleged edit-warring, incivility and personal attacks by Bharatveer on India-related articles. Kirill Lokshin has proposed a remedy restricting Bharatveer's editing for one year.
- SevenOfDiamonds: A case involving alleged abusive sockpuppetry and other misconduct by SevenOfDiamonds. SevenOfDiamonds vigorously denies the allegations, and alleges that MONGO has harassed him. Voting on remedies is split.
- DIREKTOR.
- clerk. Remedies placing a group of editors on probation have the support of three arbitrators.
- WP:NPAshould prohibit links from articles in the mainspace to websites which include pages attacking Wikipedia editors. Voting on most remedies is split, but remedies encouraging the community to develop a policy through consensus have a majority.
- DavidShankBone. Voting on remedies 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.
Motion to close
- DreamGuy 2: A case involving alleged persistent incivility by DreamGuy. If closed, DreamGuy's editing would be restricted.
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