Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-11-08/Arbitration report

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closed three cases since the last issue, and opened one, leaving two cases currently open.

• biographies of living persons
  policy.

• Abtract and Collectonian
  , involving an editing dispute between the two. As a result of the case, Abtract was restricted from interacting with, harassing, or wikistalking Collectonian, or making uncivil comments about any other user. Collectonian, meanwhile, was urged to "continue to avoid any unnecessary interaction with Abtract".

• checkuser by Lar, in the light of comments by SlimVirgin (here
  , inter alia), alleging that he misused the tool. The case found that Lar's checks "fell within the acceptable range of CheckUser discretion". Remedies enacted reminded users to bring similar issues to appropriate dispute resolution processes rather than "public invective", and reminded CheckUser operators to abide strictly to the Wikimedia Foundation's privacy policy.

New case

• Kuban kazak
  .

Evidence phase

• workshop proposals made by arbitrator Kirill Lokshin
  .

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