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Arbitration Report

The Arbitration Committee opened no cases this week and closed one, leaving two cases open.

• contributed to problems in highly controversial areas. ChildofMidnight was placed under a one-year ban and is afterwards subject to an editing restriction forbidding him from editing outside article space unless it's a talk page for an article he's edited, his userspace, or Template talk:Did you know. (AC/N announcement
  )

Open cases

• attempts at ownership
  of articles. Currently in the evidence/workshop phase.
• Transcendental Meditation movement (Week 3): An arbitration case opened to deal with circumstances on articles related to the eponymous movement similar to those that had surrounded Scientology pages the year prior. Currently in the evidence/workshop phase.

Motions

• passed a motion acknowledging a de facto consensus on the issue of how to refer to Ireland as well as their belief that the other remedies were completed to their satisfaction and as such Remedy 4
  took effect on September 18th, meaning it will expire on that date in 2011.
• The Committee
  passed a motion
  admonishing two administrators for misuse of the block button (one for unblocking herself, and the other for a block-from-the-hip).

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