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This is an archive of the results of all closed motions, amendments and clarifications completed by the Arbitration Committee. For a index of clarification and amendment requests see this index. Motions and clarifications associated with arbitration cases are archived to the talk page of the associated case page as well as being recorded here, such as Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Mantanmoreland#Request for clarification: Mantanmoreland. Prior to July 18, 2008, motions and clarifications without associated arbitration cases were archived in various places.
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2024
editTopic | Opened | Closed | Outcome | Relevant links |
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World War II and the history of Jews in Poland | 21 June 2024 | 8 August 2024 | Two motions were enacted:
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Enacted motion 2 and motion 3 |
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Historical elections | 19 July 2024 | 7 August 2024 | Following a request for action based on evidence of alleged harassment and canvassing, the Arbitration Committee directs its clerks to open a case to examine the topic area of historical elections. Subject to amendment by the drafting arbitrators, the following rules will govern the case:
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Motion |
Suspension of Beeblebrox | 10 July 2024 | 17 July 2024 | The November announcement of the suspension of Beeblebrox is amended to remove the sentence These failures followed a previous formal warning issued to Beeblebrox in September 2021 by the Arbitration Committee concerning his conduct in off-wiki forums.and insert in its place the sentence In September 2021, within the scope of internal Committee discussions, Beeblebrox was advised that his off-wiki conduct was suboptimal. |
Motion |
Durova | 4 July 2024 | 12 July 2024 | Principle 2 of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Durova, Private correspondence, is changed from2) In the absence of permission from the author (including of any included prior correspondence) to 2) In the absence of permission from the author (including of any included prior correspondence), the contents of private correspondence, including e-mails, should not be posted on-wiki. |
Motion |
Skepticism and coordinated editing | 18 June 2024 | 21 June 2024 | The Arbitration Committee assumes the block of Rp2006 (talk · contribs). | Motion |
Conduct in deletion-related editing | 30 April 2024 | 3 June 2024 | TenPoundHammer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is indefinitely topic banned from removing all content in an article and replacing it with a redirect (commonly known as a blank-and-redirect, or BLAR). This topic ban will be suspended for a period of 12 months. This topic ban may be unsuspended and imposed onto TenPoundHammer if disruption by BLARing restarts, as determined by any of: (1) a consensus of administrators on WP:AE, (2) at least two arbitrators indicating "support" to unsuspend at WP:ARCA, with no opposition from other arbitrators indicated up to 48 hours after the second support, or (3) a majority of active arbitrators at WP:ARCA if there is opposition as indicated in condition 2. After 12 months, if it has not been imposed, the topic ban will be automatically lifted. | motion |
Sri Lanka contentious topic designation | 11 April 2024 | 20 April 2024 | Sri Lanka, broadly construed, is designated as a contentious topic. | motion |
Skepticism and coordinated editing | 16 April 2024 | 20 April 2024 | For violations of their topic ban and for continued editing which violate the conflict of interest guidelines, Rp2006 is blocked for 1 month. This block may be appealed only to the Arbitration Committee. | motion |
Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 | 11 April 2024 | 18 April 2024 | Remedy 3.1 of the case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 ("Topic ban (Olympian)") is lifted subject to a probationary period lasting eighteen months from the date this motion is enacted. During this period, any uninvolved administrator may re-impose the topic ban as an arbitration enforcement action, subject to appeal only to the Arbitration Committee. If the probationary period elapses without incident, the topic ban is to be considered permanently lifted. | motion |
Amending the scope of appeals considered by the Arbitration Committee | 5 February 2024 | 14 February 2024 | The Arbitration Committee resolves to amend the scope of block appeals it handles, thus updating the guidance from previous motion in 2015, as follows:
The Arbitration Committee hears appeals from editors who are (a) blocked for reasons that are unsuitable for public discussion, or (b) blocked or banned by Arbitration and Arbitration Enforcement decisions. Examples of reasons that are unsuitable for public discussion include blocks (i) marked as an Oversight block, or (ii) based on CheckUser evidence, and where there exists disagreement between checkusers as to the interpretation of the technical evidence. It is expected that blocks marked as a CheckUser block are by default appealed on-wiki; however, the Arbitration Committee may hear appeals of such blocks if there are compelling reasons to hear an appeal in private. |
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Mzajac | 2 February 2024 | 6 February 2024 | Given Mzajac (talk · contribs)'s absence from editing, the Mzajac case will be suspended for a period of three months and Mzajac will be temporarily desysopped.
Should Mzajac return to active editing on the English Wikipedia during this time and request that this case be resumed, the Arbitration Committee shall unsuspend the case by motion and it will proceed through the normal arbitration process. Such a request may be made by email to arbcom-en If such a request is not made within three months of this motion or if Mzajac resigns his administrative tools, this case shall be automatically closed, and Mzajac shall remain desysopped. If tools are resigned or removed, in the circumstances described above, Mzajac may regain the administrative tools at any time only via a successful request for adminship. |
motion |
Severity of arbitration remedies | 25 January 2024 | 30 January 2024 | Add the following to the Arbitration Procedures as a subsection of "Arbitration Proceedings"
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motion |
PIA Canvassing | 4 January 2024 | 20 January 2024 | 6 Motions were passed as follows:
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Enacted motions, ACN Announcement |
GiantSnowman | 2 January 2024 | 7 January 2024 | Remedy 1.2 of the GiantSnowman case ("GiantSnowman admonished and placed under review") is amended to read as follows:
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Enacted motion |
Antisemitism in Poland Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Reliable source consensus-required restriction |
31 December 2023 | 4 January 2024 | Clerks are instructed to add a new section, entitled "Reliable source consensus-required restriction" to the Enforcement section of the Arbitration Procedures with the following text:
Remedy 5 of Antisemitism in Poland is superseded by the following restriction:
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Eastern Europe is amended to include the following restriction:
Clerks are instructed to link to the Arbitration Procedures in the two restrictions above and are empowered to make other changes necessary to implement this new enforcement procedure. |
Enacted motion |
2023
editTopic | Opened | Closed | Outcome | Relevant links |
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Editor conduct in e-cigs articles | 2 November 2023 | 11 November 2023 | The Extended Confirmed Restriction is amended as follows:
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Enacted motion |
Editor conduct in e-cigs articles | 13 October 2023 | 19 October 2023 | Remedy 1 of Editor conduct in e-cigs articles ("Contentious topic designation") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the contentious topic authorization remain in force and are governed by the procedures. | Enacted motion |
Liancourt Rocks | 13 October 2023 | 19 October 2023 | The final remedy of Liancourt Rocks ("Contentious topic designation") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the contentious topic authorization remain in force and are governed by the procedures. | Enacted motion |
Longevity | 13 October 2023 | 19 October 2023 | Remedy 1 of Longevity ("Contentious topic designation") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the contentious topic authorization remain in force and are governed by the procedures. | Enacted motion |
Medicine | 13 October 2023 | 19 October 2023 | Remedy 2 of Medicine ("Contentious topic designation") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the contentious topic authorization remain in force and are governed by the procedures. | Enacted motion |
September 11 conspiracy theories | 13 October 2023 | 19 October 2023 | Remedy 2 of September 11 conspiracy theories ("Contentious topic designation") is rescinded due to the topic area being covered by the post-1992 American Politics contentious topic. All actions taken under the rescinded authorization remain in force and are governed by the procedures. | Enacted motion |
Shakespeare authorship question | 13 October 2023 | 19 October 2023 | Remedy 1 of Shakespeare authorship question ("Contentious topic designation") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the contentious topic authorization remain in force and are governed by the procedures. | Enacted motion |
Macedonia 2 | 13 October 2023 | 19 October 2023 | The following remedies from Macedonia 2 are rescinded:
Editors are reminded that Eastern Europe and the Balkans, broadly construed, continues to be a contentious topic. |
Enacted motion |
The Troubles | 13 October 2023 | 19 October 2023 | Remedy 6 of the The Troubles case ("One-revert rule") is amended to read as follows:
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Enacted motion |
Prem Rawat | 8 October 2023 | 10 October 2023 | The Prem Rawat case is amended by striking the remedy designating Prem Rawat as a contentious topic (Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Prem Rawat § Contentious topic designation). Any actions previously taken in accordance with the contentious topic designation remain in force and are governed by the contentious topics procedure. | Enacted motion |
Mark Ironie and CorbieVreccan (from case request entitled CorbieVreccan, Mark Ironie, and Tamzin) |
12 September 2023 | 17 September 2023 | Mark Ironie (talk · contribs) and CorbieVreccan (talk · contribs) will be considered a single user for Wikipedia's purposes. When editing the same articles, participating in the same community discussion, or supporting each other in any sort of dispute, these editors must disclose their connection and observe relevant policies such as edit warring as if they were a single account. | Enacted motion |
WikiProject Tropical Cyclones | 28 August 2023 | 8 September 2023 | Remedy 9 of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case ("MarioProtIV topic ban") is rescinded. | Enacted motion |
Paradise Chronicle | 28 July 2023 | 1 August 2023 | Paradise Chronicle (talk · contribs) is indefinitely site-banned. | Enacted motion |
Manning naming dispute | 11 June 2023 | 17 June 2023 | The direct quotes linked in Findings of Fact 15, 16, and 18.1 of the Manning naming dispute are replaced by their respective Special:Diff link. | Enacted motion |
Conduct in deletion-related editing | 23 February 2023 | 26 February 2023 | Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case is rescinded. There are no actions remaining in force from this remedy, so the community are free to conduct and close these and related discussions moving forward. The Committee thanks Xeno and Valereee for their work as moderators; KrakatoaKatie, RoySmith, and TheSandDoctor for their work as closers; and all the editors who participated in these discussions to date. | Enacted motion |
Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 | 9 January 2023 | 27 January 2023 | The Arbitration Committee agrees to open a case with the name Armenia-Azerbaijan 3. The parties, drafting arb(s), timetable, and structure will be communicated to the clerks following this motion passing (see ArbCom procedures). | Enacted motion |
Closing Clarification and Amendment Requests | 3 January 2023 | 8 January 2023 | A section titled "Closing" will be added to Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures under "Requests for amendment" with the following text:
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Enacted motion |
2022
editTopic | Opened | Closed | Outcome | Relevant links |
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2021-22 contentious topics (discretionary sanctions) review | 13 November 2022 | 14 December 2022 | See final decision
The above proposals that are supported by an absolute majority of unrecused active arbitrators are hereby enacted. The drafting arbitrators (CaptainEek, L235, and Wugapodes) are directed to take the actions necessary to bring the proposals enacted by this motion into effect, including by amending the procedures at WP:AC/P and WP:AC/DS. The authority granted to the drafting arbitrators by this motion expires one month after enactment. The Arbitration Committee thanks all those who have participated in the 2021-22 discretionary sanctions review process and all who have helped bring it to a successful conclusion. This motion concludes the 2021-22 discretionary sanctions review process. |
Enacted motion to close; ACN announcement; implementation page |
Level 2 contacting admins (November 2022) | 16 November 2022 | 19 November 2022 | The first step of the Level II procedures is amended to read:
1. The initiating arbitrator will contact the account via e-mail asking the account to contact arbcom-en and leave a message on the account's talk page alerting the account to the email. If email contact is not possible, the initiating arbitrator will leave a message on the account's talk page asking the account to contact arbcom-en. |
Enacted motion |
Temporary checkuser privileges for scrutineers (November 2022) | 5 November 2022 | 6 November 2022 | On recommendation of the Electoral Commission, temporary English Wikipedia checkuser privileges are granted to stewards Sotiale, Martin Urbanec, and Hasley solely for the purpose of their acting as scrutineers in the 2022 Arbitration Committee election. | Enacted motion |
Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara’s block | 15 October 2022 | 16 October 2022 |
The Arbitration Committee directs its clerks to open a case to examine the reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara (talk · contribs)’s block, TheresNoTime (talk · contribs)'s use of the checkuser tool, and connected events. Subject to amendment by the drafting arbitrators, the following rules will govern the case:
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Enacted motion |
Level 2 desysop of Athaenara | 15 October 2022 | 16 October 2022 | This case request was brought to review the administrative status of Athaenara (talk · contribs), a then-administrator who was indefinitely blocked for personal attacks. Subsequently, the Arbitration Committee resolved to remove Athaenara’s administrative privileges through its Level II removal procedures. This case request is therefore resolved as follows: Athaenara may request that a case be opened and proceed through normal arbitration processes for further consideration of her administrative status by emailing the Arbitration Committee at arbcom-en![]() |
Enacted motion |
Lightbreather | 18 September 2022 | 21 September 2022 | Remedy 1 of the Lightbreather case is suspended for a probationary period lasting twelve months from the date this motion is enacted. During this period, any uninvolved administrator may block Lightbreather (talk · contribs) for any of the behaviors identified in the Findings of Fact or for failure to adhere to any normal editorial process or expectations as an Arbitration Enforcement action for up to 1 year. Any block 3 months or longer should be reported to the Arbitration Committee for automatic review. The committee will consider presented evidence and statements before deciding by motion what, if any, actions are necessary, up to and including reinstating a site ban. In the event that no administrator imposes such a block, the remedy will automatically lapse after twelve months. Restrictions detailed in remedies 2-6 remain in place until actively appealed. | Enacted motion |
Conduct in deletion-related editing | 19 September 2022 | 21 September 2022 | Remedy 11 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case ("Request for Comment") is amended to ratify the moderators' decision to hold two sequential RfCs and to make other changes. | Enacted motion |
Muhammad images | 17 August 2022 | 31 August 2022 | Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case ("Discretionary sanctions") is rescinded two months after this motion is enacted. | Enacted motion ACN announcement |
Rachel Marsden | 8 May 2022 | 15 May 2022 | Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case ("Articles which relate to Rachel Marsden") is rescinded. | Enacted motionACN announcement |
St Christopher | 22 April 2022 | 26 April 2022 | Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case ("Single-purpose accounts restrained") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with this remedy remain in force. | Enacted motion |
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures#Clerks | 16 April 2022 | 26 April 2022 | The Arbitration Committee procedures is amended to add a new section "Clerks" (level 2) and a subsection entitled "Terms" with the following text:
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Enacted motion |
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures#Opening of proceedings | 21 March 2022 | 29 March 2022 | The Arbitration Committee procedure on "Opening of proceedings" (Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings) is amended so the first line reads:
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Enacted motion |
Kurds and Kurdistan | 16 March 2022 | 20 March 2022 | Supreme Deliciousness' topic ban from Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed is lifted subject to a probationary period lasting twelve months from the date this motion is enacted. During this period, any uninvolved administrator may re-impose the topic ban as an arbitration enforcement action, subject to appeal only to the Arbitration Committee. If the probationary period elapses without incident, the topic ban is to be considered permanently lifted. | Enacted motion |
Timwi | 1 February 2022 | 11 February 2022 | The Committee recognizes Timwi's long service, and encourages his continued editing. However, Timwi (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) is warned that the use of the administrator toolset must conform to the policies set by the community. He should especially take note of WP:ADMINACCT, and remember that the toolset is not to be used to further content or policy disputes. The Committee will consider any further misuse of the toolset within a two-year period to be immediate cause for opening de-sysop proceedings. | Enacted motion |
Transcendental Meditation movement | 27 January 2022 | 5 February 2022 | Remedy 7 of the Transcendental Meditation movement case ("Standard discretionary sanctions") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the discretionary sanctions authorization remain in force and are governed by the discretionary sanctions procedure. | Enacted motion |
Ancient Egyptian race controversy | 27 January 2022 | 5 February 2022 | The first sentence of the January 2014 motion in the Ancient Egyptian race controversy case (authorizing discretionary sanctions) is stricken. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the discretionary sanctions authorization remain in force and are governed by the discretionary sanctions procedure. | Enacted motion |
Obsolete probation-like sanctions | 27 January 2022 | 4 February 2022 | Remedies 6, 7, and 8 of the Asmahan case (relating to article probation and discretionary sanctions) are rescinded.
Remedy 2 of the Waterboarding case ("General restriction") is rescinded. Where appropriate, the discretionary sanctions authorized in the American politics 2 case may continue to be used.
Any actions previously taken in accordance with the foregoing remedies remain in force, and appeals and modifications therefrom shall be governed by the standard procedure for arbitration enforcement appeals. |
Enacted motion |
Article probation revocation | 27 January 2022 | 2 February 2022 |
Any actions previously taken in accordance with the foregoing remedies remain in force, and appeals and modifications therefrom shall be governed by the standard procedure for arbitration enforcement appeals. |
Enacted motion |
Landmark Worldwide | 27 January 2022 | 2 February 2022 | The January 2015 motion in the Landmark Worldwide case (authorizing discretionary sanctions) is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the discretionary sanctions authorization remain in force and are governed by the discretionary sanctions procedure. | Enacted motion |
Scientology | 27 January 2022 | 1 February 2022 | Remedy 4.1 of the Scientology case ("Discretionary sanctions authorised") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the discretionary sanctions authorization remain in force and are governed by the discretionary sanctions procedure. | Enacted motion |
Waldorf education | 27 January 2022 | 1 February 2022 | The first sentence of the January 2013 motion in the Waldorf education case (authorizing discretionary sanctions) is stricken. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the discretionary sanctions authorization remain in force and are governed by the discretionary sanctions procedure. | Enacted motion |
Senkaku Islands | 27 January 2022 | 1 February 2022 | Remedy 7 of the Senkaku Islands case ("Discretionary sanctions") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the discretionary sanctions authorization remain in force and are governed by the discretionary sanctions procedure. | Enacted motion |
Motion: Crouch, Swale | 7 January 2022 | 10 January 2022 | Crouch, Swale's editing restrictions, previously modified in 2019, are modified as follows: He may create at most one new mainspace article per month through any process. He is not required to use the Articles for Creation process, and is not permitted to use it to exceed this rate. This restriction includes the creation of new content at a title that is a redirect or disambiguation page. This supersedes the second bullet point of the 2019 motion. Additionally, he may move userspace or draftspace pages to mainspace for the purpose of creating his one article per month, as an exception to his page move restriction. His restriction on frequency of appeals remains in force. | Enacted motionACN announcement |
Resolution by motion of the case request Warsaw concentration camp | 1 January 2022 | 10 January 2022 |
This request for arbitration is resolved as follows:
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motionACN announcement |
2 January 2022 | Jehochman (talk · contribs) is admonished for behavior during this case request which fell short of the expectations for administrators and for the behavior of all editors participating in an Arbitration Committee proceeding. Specifically, Jehochman proxied for a globally banned harasser by posting on their behalf a denial of harassment and unsupported claims of collusion among editors in this topic area [1] and for casting aspersions at another editor for userboxes shown on their userpage [2]. The Arbitration Committee acknowledges that Jehochman has since apologized for these comments and has since been desysopped at his request. [3] | motionACN announcement | ||
MyMoloboaccount (talk · contribs) is warned against casting aspersions towards other editors [4]. This warning should be considered as a sanction for the purposes of awareness in the topic areas of Eastern Europe and the Holocaust in Poland. | motionACN announcement | |||
American politics 2 | 6 January 2022 | 9 January 2022 | Atsme's topic ban from post-WWII Anti fascism in the United States is provisionally lifted for a period of twelve months. If at any point before 1 January 2023 an uninvolved administrator feels that Atsme is not able to edit productively in this area, they may re-impose the topic ban. | motionACN announcement |
Scientology | 4 January 2022 | 7 January 2022 |
Remedy 2 of the Scientology arbitration case, "Church of Scientology IP addresses blocked", is hereby rescinded. Any remaining blocks currently in force may be lifted or appealed according to the unblocking policy. |
Enacted motionACN announcement |
2021
editTopic | Opened | Closed | Outcome | Relevant links |
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Horn of Africa | 14 November 2021 | 29 November 2021 | The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, are made permanent. The committee declines to open a full case. Any further amendments or requests for clarification should be made following the normal method. | motionACN announcement |
Temporary checkuser privileges for scrutineers | 1 November 2021 | 2 November 2021 | On recommendation of the Electoral Commission, temporary English Wikipedia checkuser privileges are granted to stewards Sotiale, Martin Urbanec, and Tks4Fish solely for the purpose of their acting as scrutineers in the 2021 Arbitration Committee election. | motionACN announcement |
Extended confirmed restriction omnibus motion | 11 September 2021 | 20 September 2021 | In order to standardize the extended confirmed restriction, the following subsection is added to the "Enforcement" section of the Arbitration Committee's procedures:
Remedy 7 of the Antisemitism in Poland case ("500/30 restriction") is retitled "Extended confirmed restriction" and amended to read as follows:
Remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case (ARBPIA General Sanctions) is amended by replacing item B with the following:
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Palestine-Israel articles 4 | 28 June 2021 | 12 July 2021 | The phrase "other internal project discussions", as used in Remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case ("ARBPIA General Sanctions"), shall be construed to include requested moves. |
motionACN Announcement |
Interaction ban between Praxidicae and Ritchie333 | 1 July 2021 | 3 July 2021 | In the interest of furthering discussion around the UCOC, admin sanctions, and other such reforms, the interaction ban between Praxidicae and Ritchie333 is amended after the last sentence to add Parties may discuss the existence of the ban, and examine its implications, but remain forbidden from discussing each other and interacting with each other. |
motionACN Announcement |
COVID-19 | 8 June 2021 | 16 June 2021 | (i) The community COVID-19 general sanctions are hereby rescinded and are replaced by standard discretionary sanctions, which are authorized for all edits about, and all articles related to, COVID-19, broadly construed. (ii) All sanctions in force when this remedy is enacted are endorsed and will become standard discretionary sanctions governed by the standard procedure from the moment of enactment. (iii) Notifications issued under COVID-19 general sanctions become alerts for twelve months from their date of issue, then expire. (iv) All existing and past sanctions and restrictions placed under COVID-19 general sanctions will be transcribed by the arbitration clerks in the arbitration enforcement log. (v) Any requests for enforcement that may be open when this remedy is enacted shall proceed, but any remedy that is enacted should be enacted as a discretionary sanction. (vi) Administrators who have enforced the COVID-19 general sanctions are thanked for their work and asked to continue providing administrative assistance enforcing discretionary sanctions and at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard. | motionACN Announcement |
Antisemitism in Poland | 9 May 2021 | Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case ("Article sourcing expectations") is amended to read as follows: The Arbitration Committee advises that administrators may impose "reliable-source consensus required" as a discretionary sanction on all articles on the topic of Polish history during World War II (1933-45), including the Holocaust in Poland. On articles where "reliable-source consensus required" is in effect, when a source that is not a high quality source (an article in a peer-reviewed scholarly journals, an academically focused book by a reputable publisher, and/or an article published by a reputable institution) is added and subsequently challenged by reversion, no editor may reinstate the source without first obtaining consensus on the talk page of the article in question or consensus about the reliability of the source in a discussion at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard. |
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User:Carlossuarez46 | 1 April 2021 | 8 April 2021 | The "Carlossuarez46" request for arbitration is accepted. Given that Carlossuarez46 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) has retired from the English Wikipedia, this case will be opened but suspended for a period of three months, during which time Carlossuarez46 will be temporarily desysopped.
If Carlossuarez46 should return to active editing on the English Wikipedia during this time and request that this case be resumed, the Arbitration Committee shall unsuspend the case by motion and it will proceed through the normal arbitration process. Such a request may be made by email to arbcom-en@wikimedia.org or at the clerks' noticeboard. If such a request is not made within three months of this motion, this case shall be automatically closed, and Carlossuarez46 shall remain desysopped. Carlossuarez46 may regain the administrative tools at any time only via a successful request for adminship. |
motionACN announcement |
Kurds and Kurdistan | 25 February 2021 | 26 February 2021 | The phrase "articles related to" in the topic bans for GPinkerton, Thepharoah17, عمرو بن كلثوم, and Supreme Deliciousness are struck, to clarify that the bans are not limited to article-space. | motionACN Announcement |
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures | 18 February 2021 | 26 February 2021 | Once a case has been accepted, the Arbitration Committee will instruct the clerks on the name, structure, and timetable for a case so they may create the applicable pages. The name is for ease of identification only and may be changed by the Committee at any time. The Committee will designate one or more arbitrators to be drafting arbitrator(s) for the case, to ensure it progresses, and to act as a designated point of contact for any matters arising.
The standard structure of a case will include the following phases and timetable:
The timetable and structure of the case may be adjusted (e.g. a phase may be extended, closed early, added or removed) by the initiative of the Committee, at the discretion of the drafting arbitrator(s) during the case. Drafting arbitrator(s) shall also have broad authority to set case-specific rules regarding the running of the phases (e.g. enforce threaded discussions, set a word limit for participants in the workshop phase) to enforce the expectation of behavior during a case. Parties to the case may also petition for changes to the timetable and structure for a case. Implementation note: upon this motion passing, Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Procedures#Target_timetable_for_proceedings will be removed, the final paragraph of Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Procedures#Opening_of_proceedings will be struck, and a new section, with the heading "Timetable and case structure", will be added to the Committee's procedures with the above text. In the announcement for this change, the Committee will note its intention to incorporate the analysis of evidence into the evidence phase as part of the standard structure and to make the workshop phase optional. The Workshop phase will be omitted for some cases, such as those examining the conduct of one or two editors. |
motionACN announcement |
Gender and sexuality | 17 February 2021 | 22 February 2021 | In order to promote consistency and reduce confusion, the arbitration clerks are directed to create a new arbitration case page under the name Gender and sexuality, with the following sole remedy: "Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people." For the avoidance of doubt, GamerGate is considered a gender-related dispute or controversy for the purposes of this remedy.
Clause (i) of Remedy 1.1 of the GamerGate case ("Discretionary sanctions") is rescinded. Sanctions previously issued in accordance with Remedy 1.1 of the GamerGate case will from this time on be considered Gender and sexuality sanctions. This motion does not invalidate any action previously taken under the GamerGate discretionary sanctions authorization. In order to preserve previous clarifications about the scope of these discretionary sanctions:
The index of topics with an active discretionary sanctions provision will be updated with the new title, but previous references to GamerGate need not be updated. The arbitration enforcement log, however, should be updated for the current year. For prior years, the new name should be noted along with the old one. The arbitration clerks are also directed to update templates and documentation pages with the new name as appropriate. This motion should be recorded on the case pages of the GamerGate case, the new Gender and sexuality case, the Manning naming dispute case, and the Interactions at GGTF case. |
motionACN Announcement |
MONGO | 5 February 2021 | 12 February 2021 | Remedy 1 of the MONGO case ("Links to ED") is amended to read, "Links to, and/or content from, Encyclopædia Dramatica may be removed wherever found on Wikipedia, absent explicit consensus for their inclusion." | motionACN Announcement |
American politics 2 | 10 January 2021 | 19 January 2021 | Remedy 1.2 of the American politics 2 case ("Discretionary sanctions (1932 cutoff)") is retitled "Discretionary sanctions (1992 cutoff)" and amended by replacing the words "post-1932 politics of the United States" with "post-1992 politics of the United States". Any sanctions or other restrictions imposed under the discretionary sanctions authorization to date shall remain in force unaffected. | motionACN Announcement |
2020
editTopic | Date enacted | Permalink to motion | Outcome | Other relevant links (including ACN) |
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The Rambling Man | 30 December 2020 | motion | The Rambling Man topic ban from the Did You Know? process (Remedy 9 in The Rambling Man case) is lifted, subject to a probationary period lasting six months from the date this motion is enacted. During this period, any uninvolved administrator may re-impose the topic ban as an arbitration enforcement action, subject to appeal only to the Arbitration Committee. If the probationary period elapses without incident, the topic ban is to be considered permanently lifted. | ACN announcement |
Antisemitism in Poland | 18 December 2020 | motion | Remedy 4b of Antisemitism in Poland ("Volunteer Marek topic-banned") is rescinded. | ACN announcement |
Temporary checkuser privileges for scrutineers | 20 October 2020 | Motion | On recommendation of the Electoral Commission, temporary English Wikipedia checkuser privileges are granted to stewards Mardetanha, Martin Urbanec, and Tks4Fish solely for the purpose of their acting as scrutineers in the 2020 Arbitration Committee election. | ACN announcement |
Portals | 15 October 2020 | motion | Remedies 1 & 2 of the Portals case are temporarily lifted, only at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/BrownHairedGirl 2 and related pages, and only until the conclusion of the RfA process. | ACN announcement |
Abortion | 22 September 2020 | motion | The one-revert restriction on all articles related to abortion, authorized by the community here and modified by the Arbitration Committee in the Abortion arbitration case, is formally taken over by the committee and vacated. Discretionary sanctions remain authorized for all pages related to abortion, broadly construed. | ACN announcement |
Amendment to arbitration procedures: prohibition of multiple roles | 9 September 2020 | motion | Based on the outcome of the community discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RFC: Multiple roles for active arbitrators, the Arbitration Committee procedures are amended by adding a new Section 1.6, providing:
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ACN announcement |
North8000 | 26 August 2020 | motion | North8000 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was restricted by motion in December 2016 (Motion regarding North80000). Recognizing North8000's productive contributions and renewed voluntary commitments, the restrictions are suspended for one year, during which time the restrictions may be re-imposed (individually or entirely) upon request to WP:ARCA if warranted. Any restrictions not reimposed will automatically expire at the end of the one year period. | ACN announcement |
Climate change | 12 August 2020 | motion | The restriction imposed on Hipocrite (talk · contribs) by Remedy 14 of the Climate change case ("Hypocrite topic-banned") is hereby lifted. | ACN announcement |
Brahma Kumaris | 17 July 2020 | motion | Remedy 3 of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Brahma Kumaris, "article probation", is hereby terminated. | ACN announcement |
Genetically modified organisms | 2 July 2020 | motion | David Tornheim's topic ban from glyphosate, imposed as a discretionary sanction on 28 July 2016 and amended on 23 April 2019, is rescinded. | ACN announcement |
Antisemitism in Poland: Motion (May 2020) | 30 May 2020 | motion | 500/30 restriction: All IP editors, users with fewer than 500 edits, and users with less than 30 days' tenure are prohibited from editing articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. This prohibition may be enforced preemptively by use of extended confirmed protection (ECP), or by other methods such as reverts, pending changes protection, and appropriate edit filters. Reverts made solely to enforce the 500/30 rule are not considered edit warring.
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Updates to appeals procedure | n/a | motion | Not carried; archived 24 February | Archive link |
Ricky81682 block appeal | 17 January 2020 | motion | Ricky81682 (talk · contribs) is unblocked subject to an indefinite account restriction: Ricky81682 is restricted to one account, and may not edit anonymously. | ACN announcement |
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 11#Crouch, Swale ban appeal | 08 January 2020 | motion | The request for modification of Crouch, Swale's restrictions is declined. Going forward, he may not request relaxation of his restrictions more frequently than once per year, with the next request not taking place prior to 1 January 2021. In addition, he should ensure that there is consensus for any future large creations of articles, prior to making the request for relaxation of his restrictions | ACN announcement |
Magioladitis 2 | 08 January 2020 | motion | Remedy 3: AWB prohibition of the Magioladitis case is lifted subject to a probationary period lasting 1 year from the date this motion is enacted. During this period, any uninvolved administrator may re-impose the remedy as an arbitration enforcement action, subject to appeal only to the Arbitration Committee. If the probationary period elapses without incident, the restriction is to be considered permanently lifted. For clarity, Magioladitis (talk · contribs)' prohibition on making cosmetic edits will remain in force. | ACN announcement |
The Rambling Man | 08 January 2020 | motion | Remedy 4 (The Rambling Man prohibited) of The Rambling Man arbitration case is vacated, together with the associated special enforcement provisions. | ACN announcement |
2019
editTopic | Date enacted | Permalink to motion | Outcome | Other relevant links (including ACN) |
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Antisemitism in Poland | 01 December 2019 | motion | Remedy 2 of Antisemitism in Poland ("Icewhiz and Volunteer Marek interaction-banned") is renamed Icewhiz banned from interacting with Volunteer Marek and amended to read:
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ACN announcement |
Sexology | 23 November 2019 | motion | Remedy 2.1 of Sexology ("Jokestress topic-banned from human sexuality") is amended to read:
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ACN announcement |
Temporary checkuser permission for election scrutineers | 25 October 2019 | Motion | Temporary Checkuser rights are granted to Base, Shanmugamp7, and Einsbor for the purpose of their acting as Scrutineers in the 2019 Arbitration Committee election. | ACN announcement |
Palestine-Israel articles 4 | 16 August 2019 | motion | The committee opens proceedings on pages relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict, naming it Palestine-Israel articles 4. Proceedings will take place in the normal form. Evidence (and related submissions, including at the Workshop) must remain within the proceedings scope. The following matters will initially be within scope:
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ACN announcement |
The Rambling Man | 9 August 2019 | motion | In remedy 9, "The Rambling Man prohibited", the first paragraph is amended to read:
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ACN announcement |
Discretionary sanctions | 16 July 2019 | motion | The Awareness section of the discretionary sanctions procedure is modified to the following:
No editor may be sanctioned unless they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for the area of conflict. An editor is aware if:
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ACN announcement |
Discretionary sanctions | 19 April 2019 | motion | The following text is added to the "Important notes" section of the standard provision on appeals and modifications, replacing the current text of the fourth note:
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ACN announcement |
WP:AC/P | 10 April 2019 | motion | Since November 2018, six accounts have been desysopped under the Level I desysopping procedures as compromised administrator accounts. The Arbitration Committee reminds administrators that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." The current policy on security of administrator accounts provides that "a compromised admin account will be blocked and its privileges removed on grounds of site security" and "in certain circumstances, the revocation of privileges may be permanent." The Arbitration Committee resolves that the return of administrator privileges to a compromised account is not automatic. The committee's procedure at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Removal of permissions, subsection Return of permissions, is replaced by the following:
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ACN announcement |
Necrothesp | 10 April 2019 | motion | On March 14, 2019, the administrator permissions of Necrothesp (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) were temporarily removed as a suspected compromised account under the Level 1 desysopping procedures.
Following discussion concerning account security, and pursuant to the procedures for return of revoked permissions, the Arbitration Committee resolves the following: The administrator permissions of Necrothesp (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) are restored, provided he enables two-factor authentication on his account. |
ACN announcement |
WP:ARBPOL | 08 April 2019 | motion | Pursuant to the arbitration policy's section on "Ratification and amendment", the Arbitration Committee resolves that the following change to the arbitration policy will be submitted for formal ratification by community referendum:
The final paragraph of the "Conduct of arbitrators" section of the arbitration policy is amended as follows:
This amendment to the arbitration policy will enter into force once it receives majority support, with at least one hundred editors voting in favour of adopting it. Until this amendment is ratified, the existing arbitration policy remains in effect. |
ACN announcement |
India-Pakistan | 04 April 2019 | motion | SheriffIsInTown's topic ban from pages related to conflict between India and Pakistan is lifted, subject to a probationary period lasting six months from the date this motion is enacted. During this period, any uninvolved administrator may re-impose the topic ban as an arbitration enforcement action, subject to appeal only to the Arbitration Committee. If the probationary period elapses without incident, the topic ban is to be considered permanently lifted. | ACN announcement |
Conduct of Mister Wiki editors | 19 March 2019 | motion | Remedy 2.1 of the Conduct of Mister Wiki editors arbitration case (t) (ev / t) (w / t) (pd / t) (Salvidrim's prohibition from reviewing articles for creation drafts) is rescinded. He may apply for use of the AfC helper script as usual at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants. | ACN announcement |
Palestine-Israel articles | 14 March 2019 | motion | The General 1RR prohibition of the Palestine-Israel articles arbitration case (t) (ev / t) (w / t) (pd / t) is amended to read:
The community is encouraged to place the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} on any page that could be reasonably construed as being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. |
ACN announcement |
Waldorf education | 4 March 2019 | motion | A motion proposing to rescind discretionary sanctions on Waldorf education was withdrawn. | – |
Manning naming dispute and Interactions at GGTF | 22 February 2019 | motion | Remedy 15 of the Manning naming dispute case was amended. Clause 2 of the February 2015 motion in the Interactions at GGTF case was struck and rescinded. A discretionary-sanctions amendment (including logging instructions) was added to the Interactions at GGTF case. | ACN announcement |
Eastern Europe and Macedonia | 17 February 2019 | motion | At Amendment II in Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe is replaced as text by Eastern Europe or the Balkans. Remedy 3 in Macedonia is superseded by this amendment. | ACN announcement |
Crouch, Swale restrictions appeal | 10 February 2019 | motion | Crouch, Swale is permitted to create new pages outside of mainspace such as talkpages and AfD pages. | ACN announcement |
Ferahgo the Assassin restrictions appeal | 31 January 2019 | motion |
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ACN announcement |
Crouch, Swale restrictions appeal | 18 January 2019 | motion | Crouch, Swale is permitted to create one new article (including redirects and disambiguation pages) every seven days in his userspace or the draft namespace before submitting it to Articles for Creation for review. | ACN announcement |
Lightbreather | 9 January 2019 | motion | The interaction ban between Hell in a Bucket (talk · contribs) and Lightbreather (talk · contribs) taken over in the Lightbreather case is rescinded. | ACN announcement |
2018
editTopic | Date enacted | Permalink to motion | Outcome | Other relevant links (including ACN) |
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Committee standard procedures for enforcement | 13 December 2018 | Motion | The following text is added to the "Modifications by administrators" section of the standard provision on appeals and modifications:
For clarity, this change applies to all current uses of standard provision, including in closed cases. |
ACN announcement |
The Rambling Man | 13 December 2018 | Motion | The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that the The Rambling Man arbitration case be amended as follows:
In remedy 4, "The Rambling Man prohibited", the first paragraph is amended to read:
and the third paragraph is amended to read:
A note will be added at the top of the Enforcement section highlighting the special enforcement requirements of remedy 4. The following is added as a remedy to the case:
The following provisions are added in the Enforcement section of the case:
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ACN announcement |
Palestine-Israel articles | 21 November 2018 | Motion | The General 1RR prohibition of the Palestine-Israel articles arbitration case (t) (ev / t) (w / t) (pd / t) is amended to read:
Further, the Palestine-Israel articles arbitration case (t) (ev / t) (w / t) (pd / t) is amended to include the following remedies:
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ACN announcement |
Committee standing procedure on functionary permissions and inactivity | 30 September 2018 | Motion | The standing procedure on functionary permissions and inactivity is amended as follows:
Original: Accordingly, the minimum activity level for each tool (based on the preceding three months' activity) shall be five logged actions, including at least one community-requested logged action. Examples of community-requested actions include suppression requests via the oversight-en-wp OTRS queue; CheckUser requests through Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations, those stemming from account creation requests, those made in response to threads at an administrative noticeboard, or posted on a CheckUser's personal user talk page. These activity requirements do not apply to: sitting members of the Arbitration Committee; or holders who have temporarily relinquished access, including CheckUsers or Oversighters who accept appointment to the Ombudsman Commission. and: Holders of the permissions are also expected to:
Replaced with: Accordingly, the minimum activity level for each tool (based on the preceding three months' activity) shall be five logged actions. Consideration will be given for activity and actions not publicly logged, such as responding to requests on the Checkuser or Oversight OTRS queues; participation on list discussions; activity at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations; responding to account creation requests; and responding to Checkuser or Oversight requests on administrative noticeboards, UTRS queue, and user talk pages. These activity requirements do not apply to: (a) sitting members of the Arbitration Committee; (b) holders using the permissions for audit purposes; or (c) holders who have temporarily relinquished access, including CheckUsers or Oversighters who accept appointment to the Ombudsman Commission. and: Holders of the permissions are also expected to:
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ACN announcement |
Winhunter | 6 September 2018 | Motion | Because Winhunter has been desysopped for inactivity, this case is closed pursuant to the previously adopted motion. Because the automatic desysopping occurred while Winhunter was the subject of a pending arbitration case, he may regain administrator status only by passing a new request for adminship. | ACN announcement |
BLP issues on British politics articles | 9 August 2018 | Motion | The "Philip Cross topic banned" remedy in the BLP issues on British politics articles case is modified to read as follows:
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ACN announcement |
Discretionary sanctions procedure | 5 July 2018 | Motion | The following sentence is added to the end of the "Alerts" section of Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions: "Editors may not use automated tools or bot accounts to issue alerts." The Arbitration Committee is aware of a discussion taking place at the Village Pump regarding issuing discretionary sanctions alerts via bot. As this discussion has a potentially large impact on how discretionary sanctions operate, the Arbitration Committee has decided to clarify existing procedures to note that alerts are expected to be manually given at this time. This is intended as a clarification of existing practices and expectations, not a change in current practice. The Arbitration Committee will fully review the advisory Village Pump discussion after completion and take community comments under consideration. |
ACN announcement |
Macedonia 2 | 17 June 2018 | Motion | The Arbitration Committee clarifies that Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Macedonia) may be modified by an RfC discussion. The discussion must remain open for at least one month after it is opened, and the consensus must be assessed by a panel of three uninvolved contributors. In assessing the consensus, the panel is instructed to disregard any opinion which does not provide a clear and reasonable rationale explained by reference to the principles of naming conventions and of disambiguation, or which is inconsistent with the principles of the neutral point of view policy or the reliable sources guideline. | ACN announcement |
Clarification request: The Troubles | 8 June 2018 | Motion | All sanctions placed under remedy 3.2 of The Troubles prior to its replacement with remedy 5 are considered discretionary sanctions. Specifically, the 1RR sanction affecting the topic area is considered a form of page restriction placed as a discretionary sanction, and the additional awareness requirements regarding page restrictions apply. | ACN announcement |
Civility in infobox discussions | 8 May 2018 | Motion | Remedy 1.1 of the Civility in infobox discussions case is amended to replace dot point 3: *making more than one comment in discussing the inclusion or exclusion of an infobox on a given article.with the following: * making more than one comment in a discussion, where that discussion is primarily about the inclusion or exclusion of an infobox on a given article. |
ACN announcement |
Misc. discussion | 25 April 2018 | Motion | James J. Lambden and Volunteer Marek are now subject to an indefinite two-way interaction ban, broadly construed. | ACN announcement |
Misuse of Administrator Tools case request | 18 April 2018 | Motion | The Arbitration Committee reminds administrators that they should generally not use administrative tools in situations where good-faith editors disagree about how a content policy should be applied and the administrator holds a strong opinion on the dispute. Future Perfect at Sunrise (talk · contribs) is admonished for edit-warring in support of their preferred version of Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Outreach/April 2018 ([5][6][7]). He is advised that future similar conduct may result in sanctions. | ACN announcement |
MapSGV topic ban | 7 April 2018 | Motion | Topic ban lifted | ACN announcement |
Catflap08 and Hijiri88 | 18 February 2018 | Motion | Remedy 5 (Hijiri88: 1RR) of the Catflap08 and Hijiri88 arbitration case is suspended for a period of six months. During the period of suspension, this restriction may be reinstated by any uninvolved administrator, as an arbitration enforcement action, should Hijiri88 fail to adhere to any normal editorial process or expectations related to edit-warring or disruptive editing. After six months from the date this motion is enacted, if the restriction has not been reinstated or any reinstatements have been successfully appealed to the Arbitration Committee, the restriction will automatically lapse. | ACN announcement |
Doncram | 21 January 2018 | Motion | Remedy 5 (SarekOfVulcan–Doncram interaction ban) of the Doncram arbitration case is suspended for a period of six months. During the period of suspension, this restriction may be reinstated by any uninvolved administrator as an arbitration enforcement action should either SarekOfVulcan or Doncram fail to adhere to Wikipedia editing standards in their interactions with each other. Appeal of such a reinstatement would follow the normal arbitration enforcement appeals process. After six months from the date this motion is enacted, if the restriction has not been reinstated or any reinstatements have been successfully appealed, the restriction will automatically lapse. | ACN announcement |
Discretionary sanctions | 15 January 2018 | Motion | The Page restrictions section of the discretionary sanctions procedure is modified to the following:
Any uninvolved administrator may impose on any page or set of pages relating to the area of conflict page protection, revert restrictions, prohibitions on the addition or removal of certain content (except when consensus for the edit exists), or any other reasonable measure that the enforcing administrator believes is necessary and proportionate for the smooth running of the project. The enforcing administrator must log page restrictions they place.
Editors who ignore or breach page restrictions may be sanctioned by any uninvolved administrator provided that, at the time the editor ignored or breached a page restriction:
Editors using mobile devices may not see edit notices. Administrators should consider whether an editor was aware of the page restriction before sanctioning them. The Awareness section of the discretionary sanctions procedure is modified to the following: No editor may be sanctioned unless they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for the area of conflict. An editor is aware if:
There are additional requirements in place when sanctioning editors for breaching page restrictions. |
ACN announcement |
Palestine-Israel articles | 4 January 2018 | Motion | The General 1RR prohibition of the Palestine-Israel articles arbitration case (t) (ev / t) (w / t) (pd / t) is amended to read:
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ACN announcement |
Hijiri88 | 2 January 2018 | Motion | Remedy 3 (Hijiri88: Topic ban (I)) of the Catflap08 and Hijiri88 arbitration case is suspended for a period of six months. During the period of suspension, this restriction may be reinstated by any uninvolved administrator, as an arbitration enforcement action, should Hijiri88 fail to adhere to any normal editorial process or expectations in the area defined in the topic ban remedy. After six months from the date this motion is enacted, if the restriction has not been reinstated or any reinstatements have been successfully appealed to the Arbitration Committee, the restriction will automatically lapse. | ACN announcement |
2017
editTopic | Opened | Closed | Outcome | Relevant links |
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Crouch, Swale ban appeal | 26 December 2017 | 31 December 2017 | Crouch, Swale (talk · contribs)'s site ban is rescinded and the following indefinite restrictions are imposed:
The standard provisions on enforcement and appeals and modifications apply to these restrictions. If a fifth is placed under these restrictions, the blocking administrator must notify the Arbitration Committee of the block via a Request for Clarification and Amendment so that the unban may be reviewed. Crouch, Swale may appeal these unban conditions every 6 months from the date this motion passes. |
Motion |
Crosswiki issues | 31 October 2017 | 27 November 2017 | (A) Whether and how information from Wikidata should be used on English Wikipedia is an ongoing subject of editorial disputes, and is not specifically addressed by current English Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Aspects of these disputes may include disagreements over who should decide whether and when Wikidata content should be included, the standards to be used in making those decisions, and the proper role, if any, of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) in connection with this issue.
(B) To allow the English Wikipedia community to decide the policy issues involved, the Arbitration Committee recommends that a request for comment (RfC) be opened.
(C) While the RfC is being prepared and it is pending, editors should refrain from taking any steps that might create a fait accompli situation (i.e., systematic Wikidata-related edits on English Wikipedia that would be difficult to reverse without undue effort if the RfC were to decide that a different approach should be used).
(D) Standard discretionary sanctions are authorised for all discussions about the integration of Wikidata on the English Wikipedia for a period of one year from the enactment of this motion, unless ended earlier by the Arbitration Committee.
(E) Editors should abide by high standards of user conduct, including remaining civil and avoiding personal attacks, in the RfC and in all other comments on Wikidata-related issues. Editors who are knowledgeable and/or passionate about the issues are encouraged to participate and share their expertise and opinions, but no individual editor's comments should overwhelm or "bludgeon" the discussion.
(F) The request for an arbitration case is declined at this time, but may be reopened if issues suitable for ArbCom remain following the RfC. |
Motion |
Temporary checkuser permission for election scrutineers | 24 November 2017 | 26 November 2017 | Temporary Checkuser rights are granted to Matiia, RadiX, Shanmugamp7, and (alternate if necessary) Mardetanha for the purpose of their acting as Scrutineers in the 2017 Arbitration Committee election. | Motion |
Sexology | 8 Nov 2017 | 25 Nov 2017 | Remedy 4.1 ("Discretionary sanctions") of the Sexology case is rescinded. Any sanctions or other restrictions imposed under this remedy to date shall remain in force unaffected. | motion |
The Rambling Man prohibition amendment | 25 Jul 2017 | 18 Sep 2017 | Remedy 4 (The Rambling Man prohibited) of the The Rambling Man arbitration case is modified as follows:
is amended to read
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Announcement |
Soap unbanned | 19 Aug 17 | In 2015, Soap (talk · contribs) was desysopped and banned indefinitely. Following a successful appeal to the Arbitration Committee, he is unbanned. As indicated in the original announcement, he may only regain his administrative tools following approval from the Arbitration Committee, and a successful request for adminship. | Announcement | |
ARBPIA "consensus" provision modified | 14 March 2017 | 18 May 2017 | The consensus required restriction in the Palestine-Israel articles case is modified to read as follows:
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Notification |
Standardising arbitration enforcement procedures | 15 April 2017 | 21 April 2017 | The following sections are moved (word for word) from the Arbitration Committee's discretionary sanctions procedure to the Committee's procedures page (under the "Enforcement" heading) and as such apply to all arbitration enforcement actions (including discretionary sanctions and actions enforcing arbitration case remedies):
A note is to be placed prominently on the discretionary sanctions procedure noting that the Enforcement provisions on the Committee's procedures page also apply to the application and enforcement of discretionary sanctions. The "Appeals and modifications" in the discretionary sanctions procedure is modified to reflect the current version standard provision for appeals and modifications, including changes made to it in future amendments (Template:Arbitration standard provisions may be used). |
Notification |
OccultZone and others | 15 April 2017 | 21 April 2017 | The indefinite siteban of OccultZone (talk · contribs) imposed in remedy 1 of the "OccultZone and others" arbitration case is rescinded with the following restrictions:
These restrictions may be appealed to the Committee in no less than six months. |
Notification |
Jytdog | 21 February 2017 | The topic ban from "all matters related to COI editing" imposed on Jytdog (talk · contribs) as part of the August 2016 unblock conditions is lifted. However, Jytdog is strongly warned any subsequent incident in which you reveal non-public information about another user will result in an indefinite block or siteban by the Arbitration Committee. To avoid ambiguity, "non-public information" includes (but is not limited to) any information about another user including legal names and pseudonyms, workplace, job title, or contact details, which that user has not disclosed themselves on the English Wikipedia or other WMF project. | Notification | |
Article titles and capitalization | 11 February 2017 | In remedy 4.2 of the 2012 Article titles and capitalisation case, standard discretionary sanctions were authorized for all pages related to the English Wikipedia Manual of Style and article titles policy, broadly construed.By way of clarification, the scope of this remedy refers to discussions about the policies and guidelines mentioned, and does not extend to individual move requests, move reviews, article talk pages, or other venues at which individual article names may be discussed. Disruption in those areas should be handled by normal administrative means. |
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GamerGate | 8 February 2017 | The topic-ban placed on NorthBySouthBaranof in the GamerGate case is terminated. Discretionary sanctions remain authorized to address any user misconduct in the relevant topic-area. | Notification | |
Ed Poor 2 | 6 February 2017 | In remedy 1.1 of the 2006 Ed Poor 2 case, Ed Poor (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was placed on probation. Under the terms of the probation, he was banned from two topics in 2008 and 2009. The probation and topic bans under its terms are now rescinded. | Notification | |
JustBerry | 6 February 2017 | JustBerry (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was unblocked by the Ban Appeals Subcommittee in July 2013 with a one-account restriction. Following a successful appeal to the Arbitration Committee, the one-account restriction for JustBerry is rescinded. They are reminded that any alternate accounts and/or bots must adhere to WP:SOCK#LEGIT and WP:BOTPOL. | Notification | |
Yunshui | 25 January 2017 | Yunshui (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), voluntarily retired in November 2015. Their checkuser and oversight permissions were removed without prejudice against requesting reinstatement in the future. They are reappointed as a checkuser and oversighter following a request to the committee for the return of both permissions. | Notification | |
Race and intelligence | 21 January 2017 | Mathsci (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was unbanned in April 2016 under the condition that he refrain from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to the race and intelligence topic area, broadly construed. This restriction is now rescinded. The interaction bans to which Mathsci is a party remain in force. |
Notification |
2016
editTopic | Opened | Closed | Outcome | Relevant links |
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Palestine-Israel articles | 26 December 2016 | The general 1RR restriction in the Palestine-Israel articles case is modified to read as follows:
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Palestine-Israel articles 3 | 26 December 2016 | Remedy 2 (General Prohibition) is modified to read as follows:
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Gun control | 21 December 2016 | North8000 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was site-banned in 2014 in the Gun Control case. He was topic-banned from the gun control topic area in the same case. Prior to this, he had been topic-banned from the subject of the Tea Party movement in the Tea Party case in 2013, and had agreed to a one-year voluntary restriction from the homophobia article and its talk page in 2012.
North8000 is unbanned with the following restrictions:
These restrictions are to be enforced under the standard enforcement and appeals and modifications provisions and may be appealed to the committee after six months. |
Notification | |
Austrian economics | 19 December 2016 | The discretionary sanctions on Austrian economics are rescinded. | Notification | |
Darkfrog24 | 12 December 2016 | Darkfrog24's block appeal is denied. | Notification | |
Fæ | 12 December 2016 | Fæ's topic ban is suspended for six months. | Notification | |
Ricky81682 | 5 October 2016 | For abuse of multiple accounts and failure to remain accountable, Ricky81682 is desysoped and may regain the tools via a successful request for adminship. | Notification | |
GamerGate | 22 October 2016 | Since Zad68 (who imposed extended confirmed protection of Talk:Gamergate controversy as a discretionary sanction) is currently inactive, the discretionary sanction on Talk:Gamergate controversy (not the article) is lifted to allow the community to modify the protection level in accordance with the Wikipedia:Protection policy. | Notification | |
Doncram | 5 November 2016 | Point 4 (Doncram restricted) of the motion in May 2016 is suspended for a period of six months. During the period of suspension, this restriction may be reinstated by any uninvolved administrator as an arbitration enforcement action should Doncram fail to adhere to Wikipedia editing standards in the National Register of Historic Places topic area, broadly construed. Appeal of such a reinstatement would follow the normal arbitration enforcement appeals process. After six months from the date this motion is enacted, if the restriction has not been reinstated or any reinstatements have been successfully appealed, the restriction will automatically lapse. | Notification | |
Race and intelligence amendment request | 12 August 2016 | 1 September 2016 | Ferahgo the Assassin (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was topic-banned from the race and intelligence topic area in October 2010, site-banned in May 2012, and unbanned with editing restrictions in March 2014.
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Motion |
GoodDay amendment request | 10 July 2016 | 11 August 2016 | Remedy 1.1 (GoodDay topic-banned from diacritics) in the GoodDay arbitration case (t) (ev / t) (w / t) (pd / t) is suspended for the period of one year from the date of passage of this motion. During the period of suspension, any uninvolved administrator may, as an arbitration enforcement action, reinstate the topic ban on GoodDay should GoodDay fail to follow Wikipedia behavior and editing standards while editing concerning diacritics, broadly construed, or participating in any discussions about the same. In addition, the topic ban will be reinstated should GoodDay be validly blocked by any uninvolved administrator for misconduct related to diacritics, broadly construed. Such a reinstatement may only be appealed to the Arbitration Committee. After one year from the date of passage of this motion, if the ban has not been reinstated, or any reinstatements have been successfully appealed, the topic ban will be vacated. | Archived discussion |
Extendedconfirmed users | 11 April 2016 | 15 May 2016 | Administrators are not permitted to remove the extendedconfirmed user group as a discretionary sanction.
Administrators must not remove the extendedconfirmed user group as means of bypassing defined arbitration enforcement procedures (for example, removing the user group as a normal administrative action to avoid banning an editor from the Gamergate controversy article). |
Enacted motion & Archived copy |
Extended confirmed protection | 11 April 2016 | 15 May 2016 | On April 5, the rollout of the new extendedconfirmed user group began. This group is being automatically applied to accounts meeting both of the following criteria: at least 500 edits, registered at least 30 days ago. A corresponding new protection level, currently called "extended confirmed protection", has been implemented that restricts editing to members of this user group.
Extended confirmed protection may only be applied in response to persistent sockpuppetry or continued use of new, disruptive accounts where other methods (such as semi protection) have not controlled the disruption. This provision does not apply to a page or topic area which has been placed under 30/500 protection by the Arbitration Committee. |
Enacted motion & Archived copy |
Doncram case amendment | 10 April 2016 | 11 May 2016 | The Doncram arbitration case is amended as follows:
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Motion |
Oversight block appeals (Oversight-l) | 27 March 2016 | 4 May 2016 | Appeals of blocks that have been marked by an oversighter as oversight blocks should be sent to the oversight team via email (Oversight-l![]() |
Motion |
Amendment to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Ottava Rima restrictions (Ottava unbanned | 9 November 2009, 22 July 2010 | 19 April 2016 | Following a successful appeal, the amendment to the Ottava Rima restrictions case is rescinded, and Ottava Rima is unbanned. His participation on the English Wikipedia is strictly limited to:
Additionally, he is limited to one revert on a single page in any 24 hour period (1RR), subject to the standard exemptions. Any edits outside of these boundaries are violations of the unban conditions, as is the use of the Wikipedia email feature. Anyone found to be goading or baiting him may be two-way interaction banned, as an arbitration enforcement action, for no longer than one month. Enforcement blocks (including of Ottava) may be no longer than three days for the first block, and up to one month for repeated violations. Should Ottava violate these restrictions he may be blocked, as an arbitration enforcement action, for up to one month for the first violation by a consensus of uninvolved administrators. If, after the first block, he violates the restrictions again, the siteban may be reinstated by a consensus of uninvolved administrators and he is to be blocked indefinitely with no email or talk page access. |
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Amendment to Race and Intelligence case (Mathsci unbanned) | N/A | 10 April 2016 | Following a successful appeal to the Committee the October 2013 amendment to the Race and intelligence case is rescinded and Mathsci (talk · contribs) is unbanned from the English Wikipedia. The unban has been granted on the condition that Mathsci continue to refrain from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to the race and intelligence topic area, broadly construed. This is to be enforced as a standard topic ban. The following editing restrictions are in force indefinitely:
This motion is to be enforced under the enforcement clauses of the Race and intelligence case. |
Motion |
Deskana's Activity | N/A | 17 February 2016 | In accordance with the standing procedure on inactivity, the checkuser permissions of Deskana (talk · contribs) are removed. The committee thanks them for their service. | Motion |
Future Perfect at Sunrise case request | 15 January 2016 | 26 January 2016 | The Committee will communicate with the Foundation about legal options for long-term abuse cases, and recommends that the community develop best practices for communication among editors handling harassing material; many editors in good standing may be unfamiliar with specific known abusers and their activities. Notes and diffs concerning Future Perfect at Sunrise (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) and The Rambling Man (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log). Full case declined. | Motion |
Amendment request for genetically modified organisms | 2 January 2016 | 19 January 2016 | The Discretionary Sanctions remedy which currently says that "Standard discretionary sanctions are authorised for all pages relating to genetically modified organisms, agricultural biotechnology, and agricultural chemicals, broadly construed" are replaced with "Standard discretionary sanctions are authorised for all pages relating to genetically modified organisms, commercially produced agricultural chemicals and the companies that produce them, broadly construed." | Motion |
Motion to reappoint Floquenbeam an Oversighter | 23 January 2016 | 26 January 2016 | Floquenbeam (talk · contribs), who resigned from the Arbitration Committee and voluntarily gave up the Oversight permission in July 2014, is reappointed an Oversighter following a request to the Committee for the permission to be restored. | Archived discussion |
2015
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Clarification request for Genetically modified organisms | 29 December 2015 | 6 January 2016 | DrChrissy's topic ban which currently states that "DrChrissy is indefinitely topic-banned from all pages relating to genetically modified plants and agricultural chemicals, broadly interpreted; appeals of this ban may be requested no earlier than twelve months since the date the case closed" is replaced with "DrChrissy is indefinitely topic-banned from all pages relating to genetically modified organisms, commercially produced agricultural chemicals, and the companies that produce them, broadly interpreted; appeals of this ban may be requested no earlier than twelve months since the date the case closed." | Motion |
Unban of Nadirali | 14 December 2015 | 23 December 2015 | Nadirali (talk · contribs)'s topic ban from "India, Pakistan and Afghanistan broadly construed" that is part of their unban conditions is suspended for a period of one year. During the period of suspension, this topic ban may be reinstated by any uninvolved administrator as an arbitration enforcement action should Nadirali fail to adhere to Wikipedia editing standards in the area previously covered by the topic ban. Appeal of such a reinstatement would follow the normal arbitration enforcement appeals process. After one year from the date of passage of this motion, if the topic ban has not been reinstated or any reinstatements have been successfully appealed, the topic ban will be lifted. | Motion |
Checkuser appointments for ACE2015 | 17 November 2015 | 19 November 2015 | For the purpose of scrutineering the 2015 Arbitration Committee elections, stewards Mardetanha, Shanmugamp7, and Einsbor, appointed as scrutineers, are granted temporary local CheckUser permissions effective from the time of the passage of this motion until the certification of the election results. | Motion |
Removal of Unused Sanctions | 13 September 2015 | 19 November 2015 | Every so often, it becomes reasonable to terminate sanctions that are no longer necessary,
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Motion |
Level I Desysop of Seemingly Compromised Accounts | 04 November 2015 | 04 November 2015 | The seemingly compromised accounts User:OhanaUnited and User:Salvidrim! are temporarily desysoped in accordance with Level I procedures for removing administrative tools.
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Overlap of sanctions | 30 October 2015 |
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Cirt and Jayen466 | 19 October 2015 | 24 October 2015 | Notwithstanding other restrictions on his editing, Cirt (talk · contribs) may edit the article Typewriter in the Sky, its talk page, and pages related to a peer review, good article or featured article candidacy for the article. This exemption may be revoked by any uninvolved administrator as an arbitration enforcement action should Cirt fail to adhere to Wikipedia editing standards while editing under the exemption. Appeal of such a revocation would be through the normal arbitration enforcement appeals process. | Motion |
Richard Arthur Norton | 14 September 2015 | 16 October 2015 | Richard Arthur Norton is indefinitely prohibited from creating any articles or draft articles in any namespace. Moving any page into the article namespace from any other namespace. | Motion |
Philippe Beaudette CU/OS appointment | 30 September 2015 | 2 October 2015 | Philippe (talk · contribs), who recently retired from the post of Director of Community Advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation, is appointed as a CheckUser and Oversighter. Philippe has experience using both tools both on the English Wikipedia and others, including supporting the community in the WikiPR case and the recent Orangemoody incident. | Motion |
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Liancourt Rocks | 13 September 2015 | 28 September 2015 |
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Motion |
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Argentine History | 17 August 2015 | 1 September 2015 | Remedy 2 (MarshalN20 topic banned) of the Argentine History case is suspended for a period of one year. During the period of suspension, this topic ban may be reinstated by any uninvolved administrator as an arbitration enforcement action should MarshalN20 (talk · contribs) fail to adhere to Wikipedia editing standards in the area previously covered by the topic ban. Appeal of such a reinstatement would follow the normal arbitration enforcement appeals process. After one year from the date of passage of this motion, if the topic ban has not been reinstated or any reinstatements have been successfully appealed, the topic ban will be lifted. | Motion |
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Longevity | 30 August 2015 | Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related to longevity, broadly construed. | Motion | |
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes | 31 May 2015 | I) Remedy 3.2 of the Infoboxes case is suspended.
II) For a six-month period Gerda Arendt may not add or restore, except for the usual exemptions, an Infobox to any article she did not create, without first either a) obtaining a clear consensus to do so on the article talkpage, or b) her proposal on the article talk page attracting no comments for 72 hours. III) During this six-month period, she must not, in the opinion of a consensus of administrators at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard, disrupt any discussion concerning infoboxes. IV) Gerda Arendt may be blocked for violation of parts II and III. Any such block shall cause remedy 3.2 to be unsuspended; if this is done, the blocking administrator must make the committee aware. V) If after six months Gerda Arendt has not been blocked under this motion, remedy 3.2 as well as this motion shall automatically lapse. |
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2015 CU/OS appointments | 1 February 2015 | 31 March 2015 | Appointed:
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Dreadstar desysop | 28 March 2015 | For conduct unbecoming an administrator, namely
Dreadstar (talk · contribs) is desysopped. He may regain the tools at any time via a successful request for adminship. |
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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Argentine History | 1 February 2015 | 4 February 2015 | Notwithstanding other restrictions on their editing, Cambalachero is permitted to edit all content on the articles Raúl Alfonsín, Carlos Menem, Fernando de la Rúa, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Eduardo Duhalde, Néstor Kirchner, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Pope Francis; as well as their talk pages. They may also make any edits reasonably necessary for those articles to go through the good article, peer review, or featured article processes. If Cambalachero engages in misconduct in respect of any of these articles, this exemption may be revoked either in part or in whole by an uninvolved administrator. Any subsequent appeal should be made at the requests for clarification and amendment page. The administrator must log the revocation on the Argentine history case page, together with a rationale supported by diffs. | Motion passed to amend case |
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes | 20 December 2014 | 27 January 2015 | The Committee will conduct a Review focusing on matters broadly arising from the Infoboxes case. Evidence will be invited specific to the following point:
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Motion passed to create a case |
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes | 20 December 2014 | 27 January 2015 | The Committee will conduct a Review focusing on matters broadly arising from the Infoboxes case. Evidence will be invited specific to the following point:
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Motion passed to create a case |
Motion to establish a central log for discretionary sanctions and associated amendments | 17 January 2015 | 20 January 2015 | Establishment of a central log
A central log ("log") of all sanctions placed under the discretionary sanctions procedure is to be established by the Arbitration clerks on a page designated for that purpose (Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions/Log). The log transcludes annual log sub-pages (e.g. [/Log/2015], [/Log/2014]) in reverse chronological order, with the sub-pages arranged by topic, then by month within each topic. An annual log sub-page shall be courtesy blanked once five years have elapsed since the date of the imposition of the last sanction recorded on it, though any active sanctions remain in force. Notifications and warnings issued prior to the introduction of the current procedure on 3 May 2014 are not sanctions and remain on the individual case page logs. Associated amendments to the discretionary sanctions procedure 1. Additional section to be added
2. The "Authorisation" section is amended with the following addition:
3. The "Guidance for editors" section is amended with the following addition:
4. The "Alerts" subsection is amended with the following addition:
5. The "Logging" subsection is amended with the following replacements:
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Motion passed at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions |
Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ | 4 January 2015 | 7 January 2015 | The Fæ case is amended to add Remedy 2.1 as follows: "Notwithstanding remedy 2, Fæ is permitted to operate bot accounts, edits from which are only to be made in accordance with Bot Approvals Group approved tasks, or an authorised trial of one." | Motion |
2014
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Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tea Party movement (Xenophrenic) | 2 December 2014 | 4 December 2014 | Remedy 7.1 ("Xenophrenic topic-banned") and Remedy 7.2 ("Xenophrenic interaction ban with Collect") of the Tea Party movement decision are suspended. These remedies may be enforced under the relevant enforcement provision, but effective the passage of this motion they shall only be enforced for edits by Xenophrenic (talk · contribs) that, in the enforcing administrator's judgement, would have been considered disruptive for some other reason than that they breached the remedy had it not been suspended.
Enforcement action taken pursuant to the foregoing may be appealed in the ordinary way to a consensus view of uninvolved administrators. If no such enforcement action is taken (or all such actions are taken and successfully appealed) by 01 January 2015, on that date the remedies will become formally vacated by this motion, and the case pages then amended by the clerks in the usual way. If an appeal of such enforcement action is pending on 01 January 2015, the remedies will become formally vacated only if the appeal is successful. If enforcement action is taken and an appeal is rejected, the remedies shall become unsuspended and a request for their amendment may not be re-submitted to the committee until six months have elapsed from the passage of this motion. |
Motion |
Arbitration motion amending and rescinding some discretionary sanctions remedies | 24 November 2014 | 30 September 2014 | Following a request to amend several prior decisions to terminate discretionary sanctions provisions that may no longer be necessary,
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Arbitration motion granting temporary local CheckUser permission to Arbitration Committee Election Scrutineers | 19 November 2014 | 23 September 2014 | For the purpose of scrutineering the 2014 Arbitration Committee elections, stewards User:Matanya, User:Barras, and User:Trijnstel, appointed as scrutineers, are granted temporary local CheckUser permissions effective from the time of the passage of this motion until the certification of the election results. | Motion |
Arbitration motion regarding several cases with discretionary sanctions | 1 October 2014 | 27 October 2014 | This motion amends the wording of existing discretionary sanction remedies to make clear that they apply to all pages related to the topic, regardless of namespace.
1) The following remedies are amended by striking the word "articles" and inserting the word "pages" in its place:
2) Remedy 5 of the Monty Hall problem case is amended to read as follows: Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related to the Monty Hall problem, broadly interpreted. 3) Remedy 10 of the Gibraltar case is amended to read as follows: Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related to Gibraltar and its history, people, and political status, broadly interpreted. 4) Clause (b) of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Falun_Gong#Motions is amended to read as follows: Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related to Falun Gong, broadly interpreted. Any existing sanctions and restrictions remain in force and are not affected by this motion. |
Motion |
Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waldorf education | 12 September 2014 | 28 September 2014 | Remedies 1 and 1.1 in the Waldorf education case (Pete K banned/Pete K ban clarified) are stricken. In lieu of these remedies, the following restriction is enacted: Pete K is topic banned indefinitely from the subject of Waldorf education, broadly construed. Enforcement of this provision shall be per the enforcement provisions in the Waldorf education case and shall be logged at the same case page. This restriction may be appealed to the Committee no less than one year from the date it is enacted, and if such appeal is unsuccessful no less than one year after the decline of the most recent failed appeal. | Motion |
Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al | 25 August 2014 | 27 August 2014 | The second sentence of remedy 1 of the Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al case, currently reading:
In view of his previous desysopping, he may not request to have his adminship restored. is vacated and replaced with the following: Guanaco may regain the tools via a new request for adminship. |
Motion |
Arbitration motion regarding Tea Party movement | 20 August 2014 | 24 August 2014 | (Arthur Rubin topic banned) in the Tea Party movement case is suspended for the period of one year from the date of passage of this motion. During the period of suspension, any uninvolved administrator may as an arbitration enforcement action reinstate the topic ban for failure to follow Wikipedia's standards of conduct in the area previously covered by the ban. Such reinstatement may be appealed via the normal appeals process for arbitration enforcement actions. At one year from the date of passage of this motion, if the ban has not been reinstated or any reinstatements were successfully appealed, the topic ban will be lifted permanently. The following restriction is enacted: Arthur Rubin is restricted indefinitely to one revert per page per week in the area of the Tea Party movement. Enforcement of this restriction shall be per the enforcement provisions in the Tea Party movement case and any enforcement actions shall be logged at the same case page. This restriction may be appealed after no less than one year from the date of passage of this motion, and if unsuccessful no less than one year following the decline of that or any subsequent appeal. |
Motion |
Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Argentine History | 11 July 2014 | 14 July 2014 | Notwithstanding the sanction imposed on MarshalN20 (talk · contribs) in Argentine History, he may edit United States, its talk page, and pages related to a featured article candidacy for the article. This exemption may be withdrawn at any time by motion of the Arbitration Committee. |
Motion |
Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abortion | 1 July 2014 | 12 July 2014 | Motion | |
Arbitration Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Audit Subcommittee | 2 July 2014 | 4 July 2014 | An extension to the terms of the current members of the Audit Subcommittee (AUSC) is authorised until 00:00, 27 August 2014 (UTC), to allow a functioning subcommittee until appointments are finalised. AUSC members may choose whether they wish to stay on until that period or retire with an effective date of their original term's terminus. As always, the Arbitration Committee thanks the community Audit Subcommittee members for their service. |
Motion |
Arbitration Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Audit Subcommittee | 2 July 2014 | 4 July 2014 | Audit Subcommittee (AUSC) members are provided with the CheckUser and suppression tools in order to carry out their responsibilities. Historically, community appointees to the AUSC were discouraged from routine or regular use of either tool. Since appropriate procedures exist for excluding arbitrator or community AUSC members from cases in which they may be involved, there is not a compelling reason to continue to prohibit use of the CheckUser or suppression tools. As such, members of the AUSC are explicitly permitted to use their advanced permissions for non-AUSC-related actions as allowed by the appropriate policies surrounding each permission, as members of the functionaries team. This is without regard to the presence of a backlog or time-sensitive situation. |
Motion |
Arbitration Motion regarding Fæ | 28 April 2014 | 16 May 2014 | Notwithstanding the existing restrictions on his editing, Fæ is permitted to edit regarding images of sexuality in ancient and medieval times, up to A.D. 1000. This permission may be withdrawn at any time by further motion of this Committee. |
Motion |
Amendment to Falun Gong 2 (User:Ohconfucius) | 29 April 2014 | 07 May 2014 | The Committee resolves that remedy 2 (Ohconfucius topic-banned) in the Falun Gong 2 arbitration case is suspended for the period of one year from the date of passage of this motion. During the period of suspension, any uninvolved administrator may, as an arbitration enforcement action, reinstate the topic ban on Ohconfucius should Ohconfucius fail to follow Wikipedia behavior and editing standards while editing in the topic area covered by the suspended restriction. In addition, the topic ban will be reinstated should Ohconfucius be validly blocked by any uninvolved administrator for misconduct in the topic area covered by the suspended restriction. Such a reinstatement may be appealed via the normal process for appealing arbitration enforcement actions. After one year from the date of passage of this motion, if the ban has not been reinstated or any reinstatements have been successfully appealed, the topic ban will be repealed. |
Motion |
Standard appeals and modification provision | 02 May 2014 | 03 May 2014 | That the updated Appeals and modifications provision become the standard provision and replace all prior discretionary sanction appeal provisions with immediate effect The updated provision was:
Appeals may be made only by the editor under sanction and only for a currently active sanction. The process has three possible stages (see "Important notes" below). The editor may:
No administrator may modify a sanction placed by another administrator without:
Administrators modifying sanctions out of process may at the discretion of the committee be desysopped. Nothing in this section prevents an administrator from replacing an existing sanction issued by another administrator with a new sanction if fresh misconduct has taken place after the existing sanction was applied. Important notes:
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Motion: Appeals and modifications |
Discretionary sanctions (2014) housekeeping provisions | 02 May 2014 | 03 May 2014 | That the housekeeping provisions be implemented with immediate effect These housekeeping provisions were:
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Motion: DS (2014) housekeeping provisions |
Discretionary sanctions (2014) | 02 May 2014 | 03 May 2014 | That the updated Discretionary sanctions procedure supersedes and replaces all prior discretionary sanction provisions with immediate effect. See the motion page for this updated procedure. |
Motion: Discretionary sanctions (2014) |
Rich Farmbrough | 9 April 2014 | 21 April 2014 |
The following clarification now applies In order to resolve the enforcement request referred to us, the committee resolves that:
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Ryulong | 17 February 2014 | 26 February 2014 |
The following sanction is vacated with immediate effect.
During the original case Ryulong was admonished for excessive off-wiki requests of an inappropriate nature in remedy 3b, which reads in part: (B) For contacting administrators in private to seek either blocks on users he is in dispute with, or the performance of other administrative actions. Any further occurrence would lead to sanctions. The admonishment is left in place as warning not to return to the excessive and/or inappropriate behavior of the past, but the final sentence "Any further occurrence would lead to sanctions." is to be stricken. |
Motion 1 |
Kevin Gorman | N/A | N/A | The committee notes that it is not in dispute that User:Kevin Gorman has acted out of process and in a manner which is incompatible with the standards to which administrators are held. The committee notes and accepts Kevin Gorman's assurances that he has learned by his mistakes and will not repeat them. Kevin Gorman is strongly admonished. The request shall be filed as "Kevin Gorman". The request for a full case is declined. | Motion |
Kevin Gorman | N/A | N/A | The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
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Increase of protection on article protected under WP:OFFICE action | 24 January 2014 | 28 January 2014 | Kww is admonished for knowingly modifying a clearly designated Wikimedia Foundation Office action, which he did in the absence of any emergency and without any form of consultation, and is warned that he is subject to summary desysopping if he does this again.
Because the request for arbitration filed by Kww seeks review of Office actions, it is outside the purview of the Arbitration Committee and accordingly the request is declined. |
Motion |
Ancient Egypt | 8 January 2014 | 9 January 2014 | Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized with immediate effect for all pages relating to Ancient Egyptian race controversy and associated articles, broadly construed. This supersedes the existing article probation remedy enacted in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Dbachmann#Article probation.
This motion does not affect any actions presently in effect that were taken in enforcement of the old article probation remedy. |
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2013
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Motion regarding activity levels for holders of both CU and OS tools | 30 November 2013 | 31 December 2013 | The two alternative motions ended deadlocked with equal support. Archived to allow the incoming 2014 committee to return to this later if need be. | Motion |
Arbitration motion regard Arbitration Committe election scrutineers | 30 November 2013 | 1 December 2013 | For the purpose of scrutineering the 2013 Arbitration Committee elections, stewards User:Mathonius, User:Vituzzu, User:Matanya, and User:Tegel, appointed as scrutineers, are granted temporary local CheckUser permissions effective from the time of the passage of this motion until the certification of the election results. | Motion |
Amendment to Manning naming dispute | 21 October 2013 | 24 October 2013 | Finding of fact 22 was replaced with the following text: "During the course of the dispute, Baseball Bugs (talk · contribs) frequently accused other participants in the dispute of misconduct [9], [10] [11]; engaged in soapboxing based on his personal view of the article subject's actions [12] [13] [14] [15]; and needlessly personalised the dispute [16]." | Motion |
Amendment to Race and intelligence | 6 October 2013 | 13 October 2013 | "For posting inappropriate material relating to an editor with whom he is subject to an interaction restriction, Mathsci (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from the English Wikipedia. He may request reconsideration of the ban not less than six months from the date this motion passes." | motion |
Amendment to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Scientology | 14 September 2013 | 19 September 2013 | The committee has decided to allow an appeal of the sanction imposed upon The Devil's Advocate (talk · contribs) on 9 July 2013 under Scientology discretionary sanctions. Therefore, that sanction is vacated with immediate effect. | motion |
Arbitration motion regarding Mathsci | 14 September 2013 | 17 September 2013 | In May 2012 (during the Race and intelligence review), the committee prohibited SightWatcher (talk · contribs) from "participating in any discussion concerning the conduct of editors who have worked in the topic" – and therefore from discussing Mathsci's conduct. In October 2012, The Devil's Advocate (talk · contribs) and Cla68 (talk · contribs) were banned (by an administrator acting under discretionary sanctions) from interacting with Mathsci. In December 2012, Mathsci was prohibited (again under discretionary sanctions) by an arbitration enforcement administrator from requesting enforcement of these interaction bans without prior permission. The Arbitration Committee has decided to change these from one-way to two-way interaction bans. Accordingly, Mathsci (talk · contribs) is indefinitely prohibited from:
This motion should be enforced under the enforcement clauses of the Race and intelligence final decision. |
motion |
Netoholic and Locke Cole interaction ban | 10 September 2013 | 16 September 2013 | The ban on interaction between Locke Cole and Netoholic imposed in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Locke_Cole in 2006 is terminated in light of the time that has passed without further problems. | motion |
Cambalachero-Lecen and MarshalN20-Lecen interaction ban | 16 August 2013 | 18 August 2013 | 1) Cambalachero and Lecen are indefinitely prohibited from interacting with, or commenting on, each other anywhere on Wikipedia (subject to the ordinary exceptions). 2) MarshalN20 and Lecen are indefinitely prohibited from interacting with, or commenting on, each other anywhere on Wikipedia (subject to the ordinary exceptions). Should one of these users violate this restriction, the user may be blocked, initially for up to one month, and then with blocks increasing in duration to a maximum of one year. Appeals of blocks may be made to the imposing administrator, then to arbitration enforcement, and then to the Arbitration Committee. |
Motions |
MarshalN20 | 7 August 2013 | 13 August 2013 | Not withstanding the sanction imposed on MarshalN20 (talk · contribs) in Argentine History, he may edit Falkland Islands, its talk page, and pages related to a featured article candidacy for the article. This exemption may be withdrawn by Basalisk (talk · contribs) at any time, or by motion of the Arbitration Committee. | Motion |
Motion regarding Syrian civil war articles | 18 July 2013 | 21 July 2013 | In March 2013, an administrator notified the editors of Syrian civil war and several associated pages that the topic area fell under the scope of {{Arab-Israeli Arbitration Enforcement}}, which provides for a blanket one revert per editor per article per day restriction as well as discretionary sanctions. A request for clarification or amendment has now been filed raising the issue of whether the topic-area of the Syrian Civil War falls within the scope of the Arab-Israeli topic-area for purposes of arbitration enforcement. The Arbitration Committee concludes that the topic of the Syrian Civil War does not fit within the category of Arab-Israeli disputes, although certain specific issues relating to that war would fall within that topic. However, the administrator action extending discretionary sanctions and the 1RR limitation to Syrian Civil War was taken in good faith. Several editors have commented that the restrictions have been helpful to the editing environment and that they should remain in effect. No one has requested that the Arbitration Committee open a full case to consider the issue. Accordingly, the existing sanctions and restrictions applied to Syrian Civil War and related articles will continue in effect for a period not to exceed 30 days. During that period, a discussion should be opened on the Administrators' Noticeboard (WP:AN) to determine whether there is consensus to continue the restrictions in effect as community-based restrictions, either as they currently exist or in a modified form. If a consensus is not reached during the community discussion, any editor may file a request for arbitration. In the interim, any notifications and sanctions are to be logged at Talk:Syrian civil war/Log. |
Motion |
Motion regarding GoodDay | 16 April 2013 | 22 April 2013 | In remedy 2 of Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GoodDay, GoodDay (talk · contribs) was warned that "in the event of additional violations of Wikipedia's conduct policies (especially of the nature recorded in this decision as findings of fact), substantial sanctions, up to a ban from the project, may be imposed without further warning by the Arbitration Committee". It is apparent from the submissions in this amendment request that GoodDay has engaged in further violations of Wikipedia's conduct policies. Accordingly, GoodDay is banned from the English Wikipedia for a period of no less than one year. After one year has elapsed, a request may be made for the ban to be lifted. Any such request must address all the circumstances which led to this ban being imposed and demonstrate an understanding of and intention to refrain from similar actions in the future. | Motion |
Motion to return Kevin's administrator rights | 10 March 2013 | 12 March 2013 | Based on his commitment not to reverse any block designated as an oversight-based block [17], Kevin's administrator privileges are reinstated, effective immediately. He is strongly admonished for reversing the block and warned to abide by all applicable policies governing the conduct of administrators. | Motion |
Motion regarding the usage & retention of CU/OS permissions by community AUSC appointees | 20 February 2013 | 11 March 2013 | Audit Subcommittee (AUSC) members are provided with Checkuser and Oversight tools in order to carry out their responsibilities. Community appointees to the AUSC are discouraged from routine or regular use of either tool; however, they are permitted to use the tools in order to develop a sufficient skill level to adequately assess the actions of Checkusers and Oversighters, and may assist in addressing time-sensitive situations, or serious backlogs. Community AUSC appointees who held advanced permission(s) prior to their term will retain the permission(s) they held prior to their appointment. Community AUSC appointees who did not hold advanced permissions prior to their term may apply to retain Checkuser and/or Oversight during any Checkuser/Oversight appointment cycle that occurs during their term and, if successfully appointed, will assume their new role at the end of the AUSC term. | Motion |
Motion regarding CheckUser/Oversight permissions and inactivity | 20 February 2013 | 11 March 2013 | The Arbitration Committee confirms the current procedures with respect to advanced permissions and inactivity as approved in March 2011, with the exception of retitling the provision "CheckUser/Oversight permissions and inactivity". | Motion |
Motion regarding Oversight-related blocks | 5 March 2013 | 9 March 2013 | On July 19, 2010, the Arbitration Committee issued a statement noting that blocks based on confidential Checkuser information should not be lifted without consulting a Checkuser who has the ability to review said information. Since that time, this has been incorporated into the blocking policy.
While that statement focused primarily on checkuser-based blocks, the Arbitration Committee reminds administrators that they should not be taking any action when they are unable to make themselves fully aware of the circumstances that led to the block under review. Specifically, an oversighter may note that a block should not be lifted without consulting a member of the oversight team; in these situations, administrators are expected to heed this request and not unilaterally remove the block. |
Motion |
Amendment regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 | 23 February 2013 | 8 March 2013 | The section entitled "Standard discretionary sanctions" in the Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 case is replaced with the following:
Previous or existing sanctions, warnings, and enforcement actions are not affected by this motion. |
Motion |
Motion regarding withdrawn case requests | 6 February 2013 | 8 February 2013 | If the filing party of a request for an arbitration case withdraws said request, the request may be removed after 24 hours if:
In all other circumstances, the request shall remain open until 24 hours after the above circumstances apply, or until the case can be accepted or declined through the procedures outlined in "Opening of proceedings". |
Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waldorf education | 30 January 2013 | 30 January 2013 | 1) Standard Discretionary sanctions are authorised with immediate effect for all pages relating to Waldorf education, broadly construed. This supersedes the existing Article Probation remedy set down in Waldorf education, remedy 1 and re-affirmed in the Waldorf education review, remedy 2.
This motion does not affect any actions presently in effect that were taken in enforcement of the old article probation remedy. |
Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles | 10 January 2013 | 12 January 2013 |
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Motion regarding User:Hex | 4 January 2013 | 7 January 2013 | The Arbitration Committee has considered the request for arbitration concerning Hex (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)'s block of O'Dea (talk · contribs). There is no evidence of a significant, recurring problem with Hex's use of his administrator permissions. However, Hex is:
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Motion |
Motion regarding Rich Farmbrough | 1 January 2013 | 6 January 2013 | In the Rich Farmbrough case, the revised Finding of Fact 8, enacted on 28 May 2012 is vacated. Nothing in this decision constitutes an endorsement by the Committee of Rich Farmbrough's use of administrative tools to unblock his own accounts. | Motion |
2012
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Motion regarding Jerusalem | 16 December 2012 | 27 December 2012 | The community is asked to hold a discussion that will establish a definitive consensus on what will be included in the article Jerusalem (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), with a specific emphasis on the lead section and how Jerusalem is described within the current, contested geopolitical reality. As with all decisions about content, the policies on reliable sourcing and neutral point of view must be the most important considerations. The editors who choose to participate in this discussion are asked to form an opinion with an open mind, and to explain their decision clearly. Any editor who disrupts this discussion may be banned from the affected pages by any uninvolved administrator, under the discretionary sanctions already authorised in this topic area. The discussion will be closed by three uninvolved, experienced editors, whose decision about the result of the discussion will be binding for three years from the adoption of this motion. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Prem Rawat and Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Prem Rawat 2 | 15 December 2012 | 20 December 2012 | 1) Standard Discretionary sanctions are authorised with immediate effect for all pages relating to Prem Rawat, broadly construed; this supersedes the existing Article Probation remedy. 2) Any current non-expired Article Probation sanctions are hereby vacated and replaced with standard Discretionary Sanctions in the same terms and durations as the vacated sanctions. If appropriate, these may be appealed at Arbitration Enforcement. 3) The Logs of blocks, bans, and restrictions at the Prem Rawat 2 case page is to be merged into the original Prem Rawat log at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Prem Rawat#Logs of blocks, bans, and restrictions, which is to be used for all future recording of warnings and sanctions. |
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Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience and related cases | 11 November 2012 | 15 November 2012 | Remedy 13 of the Pseudoscience Case is modified to read "Standard discretionary sanctions are authorised for all articles relating to pseudoscience and fringe science, broadly interpreted. Any uninvolved administrator may levy restrictions as an arbitration enforcement action on users editing in this topic area, after an initial warning." Existing discretionary sanction remedies that this motion will deprecate may be stricken through and marked as redundant in the usual manner. Enforcement should now be sought under Pseudoscience, rather than under previous decisions concerning sub-topics of pseudoscience, but previous or existing sanctions or enforcement actions are not affected by this motion. |
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Motion regarding Iantresman | 25 October 2012 | 4 November 2012 | The topic ban placed against Iantresman (talk · contribs) as a condition of unblocking in [18] is hereby lifted. In its place, Iantresman is subject to a standard 1RR restriction (no more than one revert per article per 24-hour period) on all articles covering fringe science- and physics-related topics, broadly construed, for six months. This restriction may be enforced by escalating blocks up to and including one month in length, and up to and including indefinite length after the fifth such block. When each block is lifted or expires, the six-month period shall reset. Additionally, the original topic ban shall be reinstated if Iantresman is subjected to an indefinite block as a result of this restriction. The Arbitration Committee should be notified of this situation should it occur. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility enforcement | 16 October 2012 | 25 October 2012 | Remedy 4 ("Malleus Fatuorum topic banned") of Civility Enforcement is vacated, and replaced with the following:
Malleus Fatuorum (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is topic banned from making edits concerning the RFA process anywhere on the English Wikipedia. As an exception, he may ask questions of the candidates and express his own view on a candidate in a specific RFA (in the support, oppose, or neutral sections), but may not engage in any threaded discussions relating to RFA. An uninvolved admin may remove any comments in violation of this remedy, and may enforce it with blocks if necessary. |
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Motion regarding Opening of Proceedings | 12 October 2012 | 21 October 2012 | A request will proceed to arbitration if it meets all of the following criteria:
A proceeding may be opened earlier, waiving provisions 2 and 3 above, if a majority of arbitrators support fast-track opening in their acceptance votes. Once the Committee has accepted a request, a clerk will create the applicable case pages, and give the proceeding a working title. The title is for ease of identification only and may be changed by the Committee at any time. The Committee will designate one or more arbitrators to draft the case, to ensure it progresses, and to act as designated point of contact for any matters arising. |
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Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Sathya Sai Baba 2 | 20 August 2012 | 29 September 2012 | Remedy 1.1 of the Sathya Sai Baba 2 arbitration case is suspended for three months. During this period, Andries may edit within this topic area, provided that he carefully abides by all applicable policies. After three months, Andries may request that the topic-ban remedy be vacated permanently. | Motion |
Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence | 9 August 2012 | 24 September 2012 | All users are banned from restoring edits by banned users in the Race and Intelligence topic area. To enforce this, Standard discretionary sanctions have been authorized. | Motion |
Arbitration motion regarding User:GregJackP | 14 September 2012 | 24 September 2012 | The restriction imposed on GregJackP (talk · contribs) in the Climate change case and the supplementary restriction relating to New Religious movements imposed by the Ban Appeals Subcommittee on 17 March 2012 as a condition of unblocking are hereby lifted. | Motion |
Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/The Troubles | 18 August 2012 | 8 September 2012 | British baronets are no longer under Standard discretionary sanctions | Motion |
Motion: Mandated external review adopted and Falun Gong 2 amended | 17 August 2012 | 8 September 2012 | Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Mandated external review is officially adopted and Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Falun Gong 2 is updated to reflect that. | Discussion and motions |
Motion: User:EncycloPetey desysopped | 7 September 2012 | 8 September 2012 | For using his administrator tools while involved (see evidence), the administrator permissions of User:EncycloPetey are revoked. To regain administrator permissions, EncycloPetey must make a successful Request for Adminship (RfA). | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/India-Pakistan | 7 July 2012 | 29 July 2012 | Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, broadly construed | Motion |
Motion to remove administrative tools from User:Carnildo | 1 July 2012 | 5 July 2012 | For exercising long term poor judgement in his use of administrative tools, including his recent block of User:Itsmejudith, User:Carnildo's administrative tools are removed. Carnildo may regain the administrative tools in the usual manner via a successful Request for Adminship. | Motion |
Amendment: Scientology (Lyncs) | 23 May 2012 | 8 June 2012 | The indefinite ban of Lyncs (talk · contribs) from the Scientology topic—that was set down (as "Topic banned from Scientology") as a condition of his successful siteban appeal—is vacated. | Motion |
Motion on procedural motions | 27 May 2012 | 7 June 2012 | Significant or substantive modifications of the Arbitration Committee's procedures shall be made by way of formal motions on the Committee's public motions page; shall be announced on the Committee's noticeboard and the administrator's noticeboard by the clerks when first proposed; and shall remain open for at least 24 hours after those announcements are made. | Motion |
Motion on Rich Farmbrough enforcement | 31 May 2012 | 6 June 2012 | Long text of the motion can be found at link on right | Motion |
Motion regarding standardized enforcement | 28 May 2012 | 4 June 2012 | Long text of the motion can be found at link on right | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Speed of light | 16 May 2012 | 3 June 2012 | Topic-ban for User:Brews ohare indefinitely from all pages of whatever nature about physics and physics-related mathematics, broadly construed; suspension of ban possibly allowed after one year | Motion |
Motion regarding decision elements | 28 May 2012 | 2 June 2012 | Long text of the motion can be found at link on right | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Scientology | 14 May 2012 | 1 June 2012 | The restriction imposed on Prioryman (talk · contribs) by Remedy 17 of the Scientology case ("ChrisO restricted") is hereby lifted. | Motion |
Motion regarding Scientology sanctions | 30 May 2012 | 1 June 2012 | ;Remedy 4 - Discretionary topic ban
This remedy is superseded with immediate effect by Remedy 4.1. All discretionary topic bans placed under Remedy 4 remain in full force and are subject to the provisions of Remedy 4.1.
Standard discretionary sanctions are authorised with immediate effect for the Scientology topic broadly construed. All warnings and sanctions shall be logged in the appropriate section of the main case page. |
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Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change | 30 April 2012 | 30 May 2012 | The restriction imposed on Prioryman (talk · contribs) by Remedy 11.6 of the Climate change case ("ChrisO topic-banned") is hereby lifted. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change | 14 May 2012 | 30 May 2012 | The restriction imposed on A Quest For Knowledge (talk · contribs) by Remedy 18 of the Climate change case ("A Quest For Knowledge topic-banned") is hereby lifted. | Motion |
Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Scientology | 14 May 2012 | 29 May 2012 | The restriction imposed on Jayen466 (talk · contribs) by Remedy 21.1 of the Scientology case ("Jayen466 topic-banned from Rick Ross articles") is hereby lifted. | Motion |
Motion to consolidate evidence submission procedures | 27 May 2012 | 28 May 2012 | Submissions of evidence are expected to be succinct and to the point. By default, submissions are limited to about 1000 words and about 100 difference links for named parties, and to about 500 words and about 50 difference links for all other editors. Editors wishing to submit evidence longer than the default limits are expected to obtain the approval of the drafting arbitrator(s) via a request on the /Evidence talk page prior to posting it.
Submissions must be posted on the case /Evidence pages; submission of evidence via sub-pages in userspace is prohibited. Unapproved over-length submissions, and submissions of inappropriate material and/or links, may be removed, refactored, or redacted at the discretion of the clerks and/or the Committee. |
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Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich Farmbrough | 20 May 2012 | 28 May 2012 | FoF 8 (Unblocking of SmackBot) changed to: Rich Farmbrough has on many occasions, after another administrator has placed a block on his bot account, used his administrative tools to unblock his own bot without first remedying the underlying issue to the blocking admin's satisfaction or otherwise achieving consensus for such unblock (see block logs of SmackBot, Helpful Pixie Bot). | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence/Review | 17 May 2012 | 26 May 2012 | That FoF 2.5 in the Race and intelligence review be amended to read: Mathsci has engaged in borderline personal attacks and frequent battleground conduct. | Motion |
Motion: Change evidence limits in arbitration cases | 3 April 2012 | 24 May 2012 | Users who are named parties to an arbitration case shall limit their evidence submission to no more than 1000 words in length. All other users submitting evidence to an arbitration case shall limit their evidence submission to no more than 500 words in length. All evidence must be presented on the case's /Evidence subpage. Evidence submissions significantly over the appropriate limit may be refactored by an arbitration clerk at the discretion of the clerks and Committee. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Cirt and Jayen466 | 13 April 2012 | 3 May 2012 | Notwithstanding other restrictions on his editing, Cirt is granted an exemption in order to edit the article Dan Savage bibliography, its talk page, a peer review for that article, and a featured list candidacy for the article. This exemption may be withdrawn by The Rambling Man at anytime, or by further motion of the Arbitration Committee. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Martinphi-ScienceApologist and Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience | 26 February 2012 | 28 March 2012 | The discretionary sanctions provision at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Martinphi-ScienceApologist#Standard discretionary sanctions are moved to a new section underneath Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience#Discretionary sanctions. The annotation at Pseudoscience that the older discretionary sanctions are superseded by Martinphi-ScienceApologist is stricken through, and to it is appended a note that "Those discretionary sanctions were later moved by motion to this case" with a link to this motion. The sanctions at Martinphi-ScienceApologist are stricken through, with a note that they are "moved by motion to Pseudoscience" with a link to the new sanctions and to this motion. The purpose of moving the discretionary sanctions provision is to bring it within a case with an appropriate, clear title. Previous actions and current sanctions with their basis on this discretionary sanctions provision are not affected by this move. |
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Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abd-William M. Connolley | 26 February 2012 | 20 March 2012 | The case Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abd-William M. Connolley is renamed to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Cold fusion 2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Cold fusion is created as a redirect to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Cold fusion, and Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Cold fusion 2 is created as a redirect to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Cold fusion 2. For the purposes of procedure, the index of topics with an active discretionary sanctions provision will be updated with the new title, but previous references to the Abd-William M. Connolley decision do not require to be updated. The rename of the Abd-William M. Connolley case to Cold fusion 2 is only for clarity in reference, and does not invalidate any previous action or pending sanctions taken under the provisions of this case. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Eastern Europe | 9 March 2012 | 20 March 2012 | The case Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Digwuren is renamed to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Eastern Europe. For the new title of Eastern Europe, WP:ARBEURO and WP:ARBEE are created as shortcuts. For the purposes of procedure, the index of topics with an active discretionary sanctions provision will be updated with the new title, but previous references to the Digwuren decision do not require to be updated. The rename of the Digwuren case to Eastern Europe is only for clarity in reference, and does not invalidate any previous action or pending sanctions taken under the provisions of this case. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles | 24 February 2012 | 10 March 2012 | The text in WP:ARBPIA section "Further remedies" is modified from "Clear vandalism, or edits by anonymous IP editors, may be reverted without penalty" to "Clear vandalism of whatever origin may be reverted without restriction. Reverts of edits made by anonymous IP editors that are not vandalism are exempt from 1RR but are subject to the usual rules on edit warring." As identical text is used in an active sanction related to The Troubles case, the same substitution of wording shall be made there. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Racepacket | 8 February 2012 | 11 February 2012 | The Arbitration Committee has determined that, as User:Racepacket has on two occasions on 4 February 2012 breached his interaction ban, he is indefinitely site banned from the English Wikipedia. The user may request that the site ban be reconsidered once a minimum of twelve months have elapsed from the date of this motion passing. In the event that Racepacket violates either the site ban, or the interaction ban, the minimum period before an appeal may be submitted will be reset to twelve months from the date of the violation. | Motion |
2011
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Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Climate change | 28 October 2011 | 17 November 2011 | The editing restriction described in remedy 16.1 ("Scjessey's voluntary editing restriction") of the Climate change decision is terminated, effective on the passage of this motion. | Motion |
Omnibus motion regarding past discretionary sanctions | 18 October 2011 | 27 October 2011 | To simplify enforcement of older sanctions that are, substantively, discretionary sanctions, the committee hereby amends and supersedes the remedies listed below with the following:
where "The topic" is specified in the list of amended remedies below. Any extant sanctions or warnings made according to the older wording found in those decisions (as applicable) remain unaffected.
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Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Climate change | 29 September 2011 | 26 October 2011 | The topic ban imposed on William M. Connolley (talk · contribs) in the Climate change case is modified, effective immediately. William M. Connolley is permitted to edit within the topic area of Climate change, but is prohibited from editing relating to any living person associated with this topic, interpreted broadly but reasonably. William M. Connolley is reminded to abide by all applicable Wikipedia policies in editing on this topic and that he remains subject either to further action by this Committee or (like all editors in this topic-area) to discretionary sanctions should he fail to do so. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking | 5 August 2011 | 9 September 2011 | Remedies 16 and 18 (as amended) are terminated, effective immediately. Ohconfucius is reminded that this subject remains within the jurisdiction of the Arbitration Committee, and that he is expected to abide by all applicable policies and guidelines, especially those concerning the editing and discussion of policies and guidelines, and the use of alternate accounts. | Motion |
Motion regarding Arbitrator abstention votes | 9 August 2011 | 19 August 2011 | That in voting sections of proposed decisions as well as of freestanding motions, an additional "Comments" section will be included following the Support, Oppose, and Abstain sections. This section may be used only by arbitrators for comments on the proposal and for discussion of fellow arbitrators' comments. Posting a comment on a proposal does not constitute a vote on the proposal or change the required majority for the proposal. The use of abstention votes as a vehicle for comments, while ultimately within each arbitrator's discretion, is not recommended. Generally, an arbitrator who posts a comment is also expected to vote on the proposal, either at the same time, or at a later time after there has been an opportunity for his or her comments to be addressed. The Arbitration Committee will reevaluate this change of procedures and consider whether any additional changes are warranted in three months. | Motion |
Motion regarding User:Gilabrand | 18 June 2011 | 8 August 2011 | The arbitration enforcement block placed on Gilabrand (talk · contribs) related to the Palestine-Israel articles case is provisionally suspended as of 25 August or the passage of this motion, whichever is the latter. Gilabrand is reminded that articles in the area of conflict remain the subject of discretionary sanctions, and are currently subject to a 1RR restriction. Gilabrand is further reminded that any future problematic editing following the removal of editing restrictions will viewed dimly. | Motion |
Motion regarding User:Δ | 8 July 2011 | 14 July 2011 | Pursuant to the provisions of Remedy 5.1, RfAr/Betacommand 2, and mindful of the recent and current disputes surrounding this user in many fora, the committee by motion indefinitely topic-bans Δ (formerly known as Betacommand) from making any edit enforcing the non-free content criteria, broadly construed. User:Δ is also formally reminded of the civility restriction and other terms to which they are still subject as a condition of the provisional suspension of their community ban. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list and Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Russavia-Biophys | 17 June 2011 | 05 July 2011 | The remedies of the Eastern European mailing list and Russavia-Biophys cases are amended to permit bilateral interactions between User:Russavia and User:Miacek. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case Nabla | 20 June 2011 | 27 June 2011 | The following motion has been enacted:
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Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor 2 | 11 June 2011 | 24 June 2011 | The scope of the topic ban placed upon Ed Poor (talk · contribs) by Kafziel (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) on 2009-12-10[19] as a result of enforcement of remedy 1.1 of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor 2 is amended to "any article related to Category:Unification Church, not including associated talk pages", effective immediately. Ed Poor is reminded that further disruption related to this topic may result in the topic ban or other remedies being re-imposed by the Committee. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria | 18 June 2011 | 21 June 2011 | The editing restrictions placed on Nishidani (talk · contribs) in the West Bank - Judea and Samaria case are lifted effective at the passage of this motion. Nishidani is reminded that articles in the area of conflict, which is identical to the area of conflict as defined by the Palestine-Israel articles case, remain the subject of discretionary sanctions; should he edit within this topic area, those discretionary sanctions continue to apply. | motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Macedonia 2 | 3 June 2011 | 19 June 2011 | Remedy 25.3 of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Macedonia 2 ("Future Perfect at Sunrise temporarily desysopped") is lifted, effective immediately. Future Perfect at Sunrise (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) is reminded to abide by the policies guiding administrative acts in areas where one is involved, and to apply particular care to avoid conflict in areas related to Greece and Macedonia. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Russavia-Biophys | 22 May 2011 | 19 June 2011 | The topic ban placed upon Biophys (talk · contribs) in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Russavia-Biophys is lifted, effective immediately. Biophys is reminded that further disruption related to this case may result in the topic ban or other remedies being re-imposed by the Committee. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Jack Merridew ban review motion | 7 May 2011 | 4 June 2011 | The restriction on using multiple/alternate accounts on User:Barong, formerly known as User:Jack Merridew is modified as follows:
User:Barong is directed to edit solely from that account. Should Barong edit from another account or log out to edit in a deliberate attempt to violate this restriction, any uninvolved administrator may block Barong for a reasonable amount of time at their discretion. |
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Motion regarding Hyphens and dashes | 5 May 2011 | 16 May 2011 | A temporary injunction and an interim motion were passed. The decision as to whether a full case will be opened will be revisited at the expiry of the timeframes referred to in the injunction and motion texts:
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Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence | 5 April 2011 | 15 April 2011 | That the following replace the terms in Remedy 5.1:
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Motion regarding User:Rodhullandemu | 26 February 2011 | 26 February 2011 | Rodhullandemu's administrator status is revoked. He may apply for adminship at a future date by the usual means to the community. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking | 29 January 2011 | 8 February 2011 | Remedy 7.1 of the Date delinking case, which as originally written prohibited Lightmouse (talk · contribs) from utilizing any automation on Wikipedia, is amended by adding the words "except for a bot task or group of related tasks authorized by the bot approvals group." Remedy 8, which limited Lightmouse to using a single account, is amended by adding the sentence: "He may also use a separate bot account for any bot task or group of related tasks approved by the bot approvals group." | 2 Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking | 1 February 2011 | 8 February 2011 | Remedy 18 of the Date delinking case, which limits Ohconfucius (talk · contribs) to using a single account, is amended by adding the sentence: "He may also use a separate bot account for any bot task or tasks approved by the bot approvals group." | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list | 4 January 2011 | 3 February 2011 | The topic ban placed upon Piotrus (talk · contribs) in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Eastern European mailing list and subsequent motions is lifted, effective immediately. Piotrus is reminded that further disruption related to this case may result in the topic ban or other remedies being re-imposed by the Committee. | Motion |
Sanctions appeal by User:Koavf | 30 November 2010 | 10 January 2011 | The restrictions placed upon Koavf (talk · contribs) in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Koavf and in User:Koavf/Community sanction are terminated, effective immediately. Koavf is reminded to edit in the future in full accordance with all Wikipedia policies and guidelines. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria | 14 December 2010 | 6 January 2011 | In view of his compliance with Remedy 11 of the West Bank - Judea and Samaria case, the editing restrictions placed on Jayjg (talk · contribs) in that same case are lifted effective at the passage of this motion. Jayjg is reminded that articles in the area of conflict, which is identical to the area of conflict as defined by the Palestine-Israel articles case, remain the subject of discretionary sanctions; should he edit within this topic area, those discretionary sanctions continue to apply. | Motion |
2010
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Motion regarding a case request about User:YellowMonkey | 30 November 2010 | 24 December 2010 | The Arbitration Committee has considered the request for arbitration (filed 30 November 2010) concerning administrator actions by YellowMonkey, which followed a request for comment on similar issues (certified 23 November). Although YellowMonkey responded to the original issues raised in the request for comment, he has not edited since 24 November 2010 (six days before the arbitration request was filed) and has not yet been afforded the opportunity to address the new issues raised in the request for comment or in this arbitration request. Accordingly, the arbitration request is declined as premature, and those wishing to engage in dispute resolution on this matter (including YellowMonkey) are directed to the request for comment or other appropriate venues. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence | 29 November 2010 | 17 December 2010 | Remedy 6 ("Mathsci topic-banned by mutual consent") of the Race and Intelligence case is terminated, effective immediately. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Speed of light | 17 November 2010 | 18 November 2010 | Brews ohare (talk · contribs) is banned from Wikipedia for a period of one year. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list | 21 September 2010 | 13 November 2010 | Remedy 3 of Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list ("Piotrus topic banned") is replaced with the following:
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Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking Ohconfucius | 29 October 2010 | 9 November 2010 | Remedy #17 ("Ohconfucius automation") of the Date delinking case is terminated, effective immediately, and Ohconfucius (talk · contribs) is permitted to use automation subject to normal community guidelines. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/PHG | 2 October 2010 | 8 November 2010 | The existing topic ban imposed in the PHG arbitration on Per Honor et Gloria (talk · contribs) is extended indefinitely. Accordingly, this user is prohibited from editing articles relating to the Mongol Empire, the Crusades, intersections between Crusader states and the Mongol Empire, all broadly defined. He is permitted to make suggestions on talk pages, provided that he interacts with other editors in a civil fashion. Per Honor et Gloria may appeal this sanction no more than once every six months, starting six months from the passing of this motion. | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list | 7 July 2010 | 5 September 2010 | Remedy 7 of Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list "Martintg topic banned") is replaced with the following: | Motion |
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tothwolf | 5 August 2010 | 4 September 2010 | 1) Tothwolf (talk · contribs · logs), Miami33139 (talk · contribs · logs) and JBsupreme (talk · contribs · logs) are banned from interacting with each other, broadly construed. This includes things like not editing each other's userspace, not becoming involved directly with each other in discussions, and not nominating articles for deletion which another one has started. This does not prohibit commenting in the same discussion without directly interacting or editing the same articles so long as they are not directly in conflict. They may request enforcement of this restriction at the Arbitration Enforcement board or by email to the Arbitration mailing list; they may not request enforcement or action against each other for any other reason or at any other venue. Attempts to game this restriction should be treated as a violation of the restriction.
2) Miami33139 (talk · contribs · logs) is subject to an editing restriction for six months. Should Miami33139 make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, assumptions of bad faith or disruptive to deletion discussions, Miami33139 may be blocked for the duration specified in the enforcement portion of the case. The six months starts from the day this motion passes. |
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Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment#Request to amend prior case: Date delinking | 11 July 2010 | 4 September 2010 | The Date delinking case is supplemented as follows:
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Motion regarding Brews ohare | 4 August 2010 | 22 August 2010 | Brews ohare (talk · contribs) is topic banned from all physics-related pages, topics and discussions, broadly construed, for twelve months. | Motion |
Motion regarding User:Δ (previously known as Betacommand) | 25 July 2010 | 31 July 2010 | The Arbitration Committee provisions for the unbanning of Betacommand are amended as follows: Betacommand (talk · contribs), now editing as Δ (talk · contribs), is authorized to operate a single secondary account, Δbot (talk · contribs), only to perform automated tasks directly related to the clerking of sockpuppet investigations only as specified and authorized by the Bot Approvals Group. Any other use of the bot, broadly interpreted, must be specifically authorized in advance by BAG and endorsed by ArbCom. | Motion |
Motion regarding Eastern European mailing list | 28 June 2010 | 20 July 2010 | Decided on 20 July 2010:
Remedy 20 of Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list ("Miacek topic banned") is lifted. |
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Arbitration motion regarding Speed of light | 16 June 2010 | 7 July 2010 | Decided on 7 July 2010:
Amendment 4 to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Speed of light ("Brews ohare advocacy restrictions") expires concurrently with remedy 4.2 of the same case ("Brews ohare topic banned"), as amended by amendment 3 ("Brews ohare"). |
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Motion regarding Eastern European mailing list | 21 June 2010 | 2 July 2010 | Decided on 2 July 2010:
Remedy 17 of Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list ("Biruitorul topic banned") is lifted. |
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Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tothwolf | 16 May 2010 | 2 July 2010 | Decided on 2 July 2010:
Remedy 2 of Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tothwolf ("re JBsupreme (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) ) is changed to read "JBsupreme (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is subject to an editing restriction for six months. Should JBsupreme make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, JBsupreme may be blocked for the duration specified in the enforcement ruling below." The six months starts from the day this motion passes. |
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Arbitration motion regarding Pseudoscience | 15 June 2010 | 2 July 2010 | Decided on 2 July 2010:
The words "such as Time Cube" are struck from principle #15 of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience ("Obvious pseudoscience"). Finding of fact #9 of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience ("Pseudoscience") is amended to read "Wikipedia contains articles on pseudoscientific ideas which, while notable, have little or no following in the scientific community, often being so little regarded that there is no serious criticism of them by scientific critics." |
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Motion regarding Eastern European mailing list | 1 June 2010 | 21 June 2010 | Decided on 21 June 2010:
Remedy 10 of Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list ("Radeksz topic banned") is rescinded. |
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Arbitration motion regarding A Nobody | 18 May 2010 | 19 May 2010 | Decided on 19 May 2010:
A Nobody (talk · contribs) is banned indefinitely from Wikipedia. This ban will be lifted and Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/A Nobody opened at such time as A Nobody agrees to participate in that case. |
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Arbitration motion regarding Eastern European mailing list | 15 April 2010 | 5 May 2010 | Decided on 5 May 2010:
The current editing restriction affecting Piotrus (talk · contribs) is to be amended to allow Piotrus to raise issues and discuss improvements to articles otherwise under the ban on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland talk page. |
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Request for clarification: Tang Dynasty | 18 February 2010 | 4 May 2010 | Tenmei enters into a mentorship programme for 6 months. Tenmei reminded. | clarification, motion |
Request for clarification: ban of Offliner (talk · contribs) | 11 April 2010 | 13 April 2010 | Clarification on the reason for the ban requested and provided. | requestposted notice |
Motion regarding Altenmann | 10 April 2010 | 13 April 2010 |
Decided on 13 April 2010: The administrator permissions of Altenmann (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) are removed for abuse of administrator permissions in violation of an Arbitration Committee remedy [20], abuse of administrator permissions by closing deletion discussions in which he has commented using one or more alternate accounts, and inappropriate use of alternate accounts in violation of Wikipedia:Sock puppetry. Altemann is restricted to one account. He may not change username without the explicit authorization of the Arbitration Committee. Altemann may seek to regain adminship through a request for adminship. |
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Motions regarding Per Honor et Gloria | 16 February 2010 | 30 March 2010 |
Decided on 30 March 2010: 1) PHG's mentorship is renewed
2) PHG's topic ban is renewed
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Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Speed of light | 23 March 2010 | 29 March 2010 |
Decided on 29 March 2010: a)Brews ohare's topic ban is modified to expire in 90 days from the date that this motion passes. The supplementary restrictions of Brews ohare (namely, restrictions from posting on physics related disputes or the Wikipedia/Wikipedia talk namespaces) will also expire 90 days from the date that this motion passes. Brews ohare is instructed that continued violations of his existing restrictions will lead to the 90 day timer being reset in additional to any discretionary enforcement action taken. b)Count Iblis, David Tombe, Likebox, and Hell in a Bucket are indefinitely restricted from advocacy for or commenting on Brews ohare, broadly construed. Should any of these editors violate this restriction, they may be blocked for up to 24 hours by any uninvolved administrator. After three blocks, the maximum block length shall rise to one week. |
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Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/A Nobody | 14 March 2010 | 19 March 2010 |
Decided on 19 March 2010: This case is accepted, but will not be opened unless and until A Nobody (talk · contribs) returns to Wikipedia. If A Nobody does so under any account or I.P., he/she is required to notify the Committee. |
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Motion regarding Durova and Shoemaker's Holiday | 9 March 2010 | 15 March 2010 |
Decided on 15 March 2010: The Arbitration Committee notes and deplores the acrimonious nature of the dispute between Shoemaker's Holiday and Durova, and the way it has been needlessly prolonged and intensified on- and off-wiki by both parties, and resolves that: a) While noting the provisions in paragraph (b):
b) Both parties may, within reason, comment within the same pages (for example, in the Wikipedia:Featured Pictures topic area and similar) providing their comments do not relate directly or indirectly to the other party. They may also, within reason, revert blatant third-party vandalism to each others' or shared works. c) Should either Shoemaker's Holiday or Durova violate the letter or spirit of these restrictions, they may be blocked by any uninvolved administrator for short periods of up to one week; after the third such violation, the maximum block length shall be one year. All blocks shall be logged below. Appeals of any blocks may be made to the Arbitration Committee. |
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Motions regarding Trusilver and Arbitration Enforcement | 1 March 2010 | 15 March 2010 |
Decided on 15 March 2010: 1) The unblock of User:Brews ohare by User:Trusilver was done without the explicit written consent of the Arbitration Committee, or a full and active community discussion as required. The Arbitration Committee explicitly rejects Trusilver's defense of WP:IAR in this situation. However, since the block has since expired, it will not be reapplied. For misuse of his administrator tools, User:Trusilver's administrator rights are revoked. He may regain them through a new WP:RfA or through a request to the Arbitration Committee. 2) The Arbitration Committee modifies the Restriction on arbitration enforcement activity as follows: Administrators are prohibited from reversing or overturning (explicitly or in substance) any action taken by another administrator pursuant to the terms of an active arbitration remedy, and explicitly noted as being taken to enforce said remedy, except:
Any administrator that overturns an enforcement action outside of these circumstances shall be subject to appropriate sanctions, up to and including desysopping, at the discretion of the Committee. Administrators who consistently make questionable enforcement administrative actions, or whose actions are consistently overturned by community or Arbitration Committee discussions may be asked to cease performing such activities or be formally restricted from taking such activities. |
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Arbitration motion regarding Ireland article names | 17 February 2010 | 5 March 2010 |
Decided on 5 March 2010: 1) The Arbitration Committee notes that the conditions put forward by remedies during the Ireland article names arbitration case were fulfilled to the Committee's satisfaction and that, as a consequence, remedy 4 ("[...] no further page moves discussions related to these articles shall be initiated for a period of 2 years.") is in force until September 18, 2011. 2) While the related matter of how to refer to Ireland/Republic of Ireland in other places (such as articles) is not directly covered by the aforementioned remedies, the Committee takes notes of the existence of a de facto consensus on the matter owing to the stability of the Ireland manual of style and enjoins the community to avoid needlessly rehashing the disputes. |
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Motions regarding Herostratus and Viridae | 2 March 2010 | 5 March 2010 |
Decided on 5 March 2010: 1) Herostratus strongly admonished
2) Viridae admonished
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Arbitration motion regarding Eastern European mailing list | 28 January 2010 | 13 February 2010 |
Decided on 13 February 2010: 1) Topic ban narrowed (Radeksz)
2) Topic ban narrowed (Martintg)
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Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abd-William M. Connolley | 11 January 2010 | 2 February 2010 |
Decided on 2 February 2010: 1) Abd and William M. Connolley prohibited from interacting Abd (talk · contribs) and William M. Connolley (talk · contribs) shall not interact with each other, nor comment in any way (directly or indirectly) about each other, on any page in Wikipedia. Should either editor do so, he may be blocked by any administrator for a short time, up to one week. |
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Arbitration motion regarding User:Craigy144 | 20 January 2010 | 30 January 2010 |
Decided on 30 January 2010: Summary motion in lieu of a full case:
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Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list | 23 January 2010 | 28 January 2010 |
Decided on 28 January 2010: Malik Shabazz, Xavexgoem, and Durova are authorized to act as proxies for Piotrus by editing, at his direction, the Lech Wałęsa article, its talk page, and any process pages directly related to its nomination for Good Article status. |
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Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list | 22 January 2010 | 28 January 2010 |
Decided on 28 January 2010: 1) Topic ban narrowed
2) Tagging and categorizing of unreferenced Poland-related BLPs allowed
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Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Speed of light | 13 January 2010 | 26 January 2010 |
Decided on 19 January 2010: 1) Exception to topic ban Brews ohare (talk · contribs) is permitted to participate in featured article candidacy discussions for "Speed of light" for the sole purpose of discussing the images used in the article. This shall constitute an exception to the topic ban imposed on him (remedy#4.2). 2) Second exception to topic ban Brews ohare (talk · contribs) is permitted to edit images used in the "Speed of light" article to address issues regarding the images that arise in connection with the article's featured article candidacies. This shall constitute an exception to the topic ban imposed on him (remedy#4.2). |
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Motion regarding BLP deletions | 22 January 2010 | 23 January 2010 |
Decided on 20 January 2010: The Committee has examined this matter. In light of the following considerations:
The Committee has determined that:
The Committee hereby proclaims an amnesty for all editors who may have overstepped the bounds of policy in this matter. Everyone is asked to continue working together to improve and uphold the goals of our project. The Committee recommends, in particular, that a request for comments be opened to centralize discussion on the most efficient way to proceed with the effective enforcement of the policy on biographies of living people. |
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Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Falun Gong | 14 January 2010 | 19 January 2010 |
Decided on 19 January 2010: Imposition of discretionary sanctions
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2009
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GiacomoReturned | 21 December 2009 | 23 December 2009 |
Decided on 23 December 2009 : This request for a case is declined. The following note is to be written into the record:
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Motion to amend User:Jack Merridew's 2008 unban motion | 11 December 2009 | 14 December 2009 |
Decided on 14 December 2009 : Jack Merridew is to be commended for making a clean return from an indefinite ban. On review of the past year, the Arbitration Committee replaces the previous motion with the following conditions:
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Motions to amend Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/ADHD | 20 October 2009 | 8 November 2009 |
Decided on 8 November 2009 : Scuro (talk · contribs) is topic banned from all pages, topics, and discussions related to attention-deficit hyperactivity, broadly defined, for twelve months. |
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Motion to amend Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking | 12 October 2009 | 21 October 2009 |
Decided on 21 October 2009 : Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll, Wikipedia talk:Full-date unlinking bot#RFC, and Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Full-date unlinking bot indicate that Full-date unlinking bot (BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights) fulfills the requirement for "a Community approved process for the mass delinking" in "1.3 Mass date linking" and the requirement for "[d]ate delinking bots [performing] in a manner approved by the Bot Approvals Group" in "2.1 Date delinking bots". The Committee thanks the participants for their efforts and encourages them to continue with their constructive work and consensus building. |
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Disclosure of known alternate accounts | 1 October 2009 | 11 October 2009 |
Decided on 11 October 2009 : In response to a case request submitted by User:Jehochman the committee decided to reject the case and instead deal with the matter by motion. Motion 1: GlassCobra Motion 2: GlassCobra admonished Motion 3: GlassCobra desysopped Motion 4: Jayron32 admonished Motion 5: Jennavecia admonished Motion 6: Jennavecia's resignation Motion 7: Administrators reminded and encouraged |
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With respect to User:Law and User:The undertow | 30 September 2009 | 11 October 2009 |
Decided on 11 October 2009 : The Arbitration Committee has been informed that Law (talk · contribs) is an alternate account of The undertow (talk · contribs), and this has been confirmed with the user involved. User:Law has now resigned his administrator tools.[21] At the time that the User:Law account was created, User:The undertow was subject to an Arbitration Committee block. General motion Motion 1 - The undertow is banned 6 months: |
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Date delinking | 19 July 2009 | 17 August 2009 |
Decided on 17 August 2009 : Having considered all the requests for amendment and requests for clarification submitted following the decision in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking, the Arbitration Committee decides as follows:
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Everyking 3 | 22 July 2009 | 15 August 2009 |
Decided on 15 August 2009 : Having considered the request to lift the remaining restriction (remedy X) in the EK3 case, the Arbitration Committee decides that the request is denied, but that the indefinite nature of the restriction is altered so that the restriction will now expire one year after the enactment of this motion. This expiration date of one year will be reset following any future unsuccessful appeals of this restriction |
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The Rambling Man | 13 August 2009 | 14 August 2009 |
Decided on 14 August 2009: The Arbitration Committee:
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Jimbo Wales - Bishonen | 20 July 2009 | 5 August 2009 |
Decided on 5 August 2009 :
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Aitias | 1 August 2009 | 4 August 2009 |
Decided on 4 August 2009 :
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Geogre | 29 July 2009 | 1 August 2009 |
Decided on 1 August 2009 :
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Geogre | 23 July 2009 | 29 July 2009 |
Decided on 29 July 2009 :
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Everyking desysopping appeal | 17 June 2009 | 18 July 2009 |
Decided on 18 July 2009 :
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Motion regarding Golan Heights | 01 July 2009 | 16 July 2009 |
Decided on 16 July 2009 :
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User:Coffee resyop request | 01 July 2009 | 03 July 2009 |
Decided on 03 July 2009 :
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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria | 25 May 2009 | 28 May 2009 |
Decided on 28 May 2009:
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Vintagekits/Kittybrewster/BrownHairedGirl | 5 May 2009 | 13 May 2009 |
Decided on 13 May 2009 :
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User:EddieSegoura ban appeal | 17 April 2009 | 22 April 2009 |
Decided on 22 April 2009 :
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User:Mitchazenia | 05 April 2009 | 08 April 2009 |
Passed on 08 April 09 :
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User:Aitias | 15 March 2009 | 22 March 2009 |
Passed on 18 Mar 09 :
By 22 Mar 09, user:Aitias has not voluntarily requested that his administrator access be removed. The Commitee then passed three additional motions, as of follow :
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User:Bishzilla | 13 January 2008 | 21 December 2008 | Motion: 2) user:Bishzilla is strongly admonished for her conduct in this matter. She is advised not to block users to force further discussion or action on an issue, nor to increase the pace of an issue, and not to take administrator actions with respect to disputes in which she is involved. Bishzilla is warned that any further such incidents are likely to lead to the suspension or revocation of her administrator privileges. | Motion |
User:Hemanshu | 31 December 2008 | 03 January 2009 | Motion: 1) As evidenced by Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Hemanshu, the community has lost its confidence in Hemanshu as an admin. His failure to communicate in an effort to address concerns is also disconcerting, as is his being blocked three times in the last few months. Admins need to be held to a high standard and retain the confidence of the community. Therefore Hemanshu is desysopped. NOTE: motion quickly passed 11-1-2 after significant socking found (some votes in the motion were cast before the new evidence emerged). See Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Hemanshu and the checkuser concerns noted in this announcement. | archive diff. |
2008
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User:Moreschi | 16 December 2008 | 20 December 2008 | Motion: 1.3) Based upon the events of December 16, 2008, user:Moreschi is admonished: (A) Not to reverse blocks imposed by another administrator without the consent of the blocking administrator or on-wiki consensus; (B) Not to reverse actions taken by or on behalf of the Arbitration Committee acting as a committee, and to consult with an arbitrator if he finds the status of an action unclear; and (C) Not to make disparaging comments about other administrators in log entries of his administrator actions. |
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Peter Damian restrictions | 5 December 2008 | 17 December 2008 | Motion: editing restrictions lifted | archive diff |
Jack Merridew ban review motion | 16 November 2008 | 9 December 2008 | Motion: indef ban lifted with editing restrictions. | WP:RFAR/Jack Merridew ban review motion |
Motion on Tobias Conradi case | 8 November 2008 | 29 November 2008 | Motions: one, comprised of various parts—including: principles regarding user space. | WP:RFAR Oldid permalink |
Motion: re SlimVirgin (also covers Arbitration Enforcement and Giano) |
November 23 2008 | November 27 2008 | Motions:
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Request for clarification on editing arbitration policy | September 28 2008 | October 15 2008 | Question about arbitration policy. No motion, but discussion did appear to move to Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/Policy Changes, and then subsequently to Wikipedia:Arbitration policy proposed updating. | archive diff |
Request for clarification on topic bans | September 23 2008 | September 27 2008 | Question of best place for a topic ban discussion resolved by making a redirect. | archive diff |
Request for arbitration on Unapproved admin bots | September 17 2008 | September 25 2008 | RFAR was declined but a motion resulted that recapped issues in the case, encouraged the community to continue discussing the issue and admonished User:Prodego for his block of User:Misza13. Due to its length, the full closed motion is on this talk page. | archive diff |
Motion in E104421-Tajik | 12 September 2008 | 13 September 2008 | 1) Remedy 1 in E104421-Tajik is 2) Tajik (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is placed on an editing restriction. Tajik is limited to one revert per page per week (excepting obvious vandalism), and is required to discuss any content reversions on the page's talk page. Should he exceed this limit or fail to discuss a content reversion, he may be briefly blocked, up to a month in the event of repeated violations. All blocks are to be logged at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/E104421-Tajik#Log of blocks, bans, and restrictions. |
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Request for clarification on RFA options for User:Coffee and User:PeterSymonds | August 31 2008 | September 1 2008 | motion passed 7-0, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
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Steve Crossin, Chet B Long, PeterSymonds, and inappropriate account sharing | August 23 2008 | August 30 2008 | motion rejected, Chet and Peter desyssoped, Steve taking a break | archive diff |
User:Can't sleep, clown will eat me | July 18 2008 | July 18 2008 | Desysop (until Can't sleep contacts arbcom) | perm rfar link, meta request fulfilled |
2007
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Lyndon LaRouche | 17 October 2007 | 27 October 2007 | The findings of fact of the original decision Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche/Proposed decision, closed in September 2004, referred to two problematic behaviours:
The Arbitration Committee affirms that editor behaviour amounting to such patterns is not accepted on Wikipedia. Administrators should draw the attention of editors to these standing principles, which should be known by any editor engaging closely in LaRouche-related articles. After due warning, explanation, and reference to the basic unacceptability of POV pushing on Wikipedia, proportionate blocks may be applied by administrators. Cases of difficulty may be referred directly to the Committee for clarification. It is also pointed out that the principles of Wikipedia:Biographies of living people, formulated since that first case, must be applied strictly to all biographical material appearing in articles relating to the LaRouche movement. |
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Carl Hewitt | 13 October 2007 | 16 October 2007 |
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Instantnood 3 | 30 July 2007 | 6 September 2007 | I move that the restrictions, now over a year old, from the Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 3 case on editor Huaiwei be lifted. While Huaiwei appears to have been involved in some edit wars and has received a number of 3RR blocks, I do not believe that the probation and limits on participation remain relevant at this point. | Permalink to motion |
Zeq-Zero0000 | 8 June 2007 | 10 June 2007 | Any future use of administrative tools by Zero0000 in relation to someone with whom he is in a dispute, will result in immediate desyopping once it is brought to the attention of ArbCom. This specifically includes, but is not limited to, administrative action against or related to Zeq. | Permalink to motion |
Waldorf education | 2 June 2007 | 6 June 2007 | Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Waldorf_education#Pete_K_banned applies to user pages with respect to content which relates to Waldorf education, PLANS, Rudolf Steiner, orAnthroposophy. Based on [23], [24], [25], and [26]. | Permalink to motion |
Tony Sidaway | 28 April 2007 | 7 May 2007 | Crotalus horridus' probation shall terminate six months from the date of the acceptance this motion or the date of the last enforcement action, if any, under his probation, whichever is later. | Permalink to motion |
Highways | 31 March 2007 | 3 April 2007 | User:JohnnyBGood has requested the same relief from probation as granted to User:Rschen7754 and User:PHenry. I am inclined to grant it. I am not inclined to extend such relief to User:SPUI, based on repeated violations of the probation, but I also wish to propose that restrictions on SPUI terminate twelve months after his last probation violation. | Permalink to motion |
Highways | 16 March 2007 | 26 March 2007 | Rschen7754 (talk · contribs) and PHenry (talk · contribs) have appealed their continued probation in the Highways case. I believe that their continued probation is not necessary and move to end it forthwith. | Permalink to motion |
2006
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Ulritz | 17 November 2006 | 18 November 2006 | The anonymous editor who edits from the 194.9.5.0/24 range and was also a part to Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Ulritz shall be subject to the same restrictions as Ulritz and Rex Germanus for edit warring at involved articles. See #Ulritz_placed_on_Probation and #Ulritz_placed_on_revert parole for the applicable restrictions. | Permalink to motion |
Irishpunktom | 20 September 2006 | 22 September 2006 | The article ban (remedy 1) for Dbiv (talk · contribs) and Irishpunktom (talk · contribs) from Peter Tatchell is lifted, and replaced with Probation for Dbiv also. Any administrator, in the exercise of their judgement for reasonable cause, may ban Dbiv from any page which he disrupts by inappropriate editing. He must be notified on his talk page of any bans, and a note must also placed on WP:AN/I. Violations of these bans or paroles imposed shall be enforced by appropriate blocks, up to a month in the event of repeat violations. All bans are to be logged at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Irishpunktom#Log of blocks and bans. | Irishpunktom: Dbiv |
Eternal Equinox | 10 September 2006 | 17 September 2006 | Eternal Equinox continues to edit anonymously, both disrupting articles and continuing to violate bans received under probation for the disruption. Eternal Equinox is hereby limited to one publicly known account, preferably Eternal Equinox. All edits by Eternal Equinox under another account or an IP address shall be treated as edits by a banned user. | Permalink to motion |
Freestylefrappe | 10 September 2006 | 12 September 2006 | Since being desysopped in his arbitration case, Freestylefrappe has had a number of different accounts, including Tchadienne (talk · contribs), KI (talk · contribs), Republitarian (talk · contribs), and Ya ya ya ya ya ya (talk · contribs), some of which have engaged in disruptive editing. I propose that his editing be limited to one account so that admins will have a consistent history of his activities. | Permalink to motion |
Aucaman | 28 August 2006 | 11 September 2006 | Since being placed on Probation for edit warring in the Aucaman case in May, Khoikhoi has demonstrated that the restriction is no longer necessary or warranted. He has been very prolific, invaluable in tracking down banned users Bonaparte and -Inanna-, contributed to at least one recent featured article. Most importantly, I see no signs of the edit warring that caused him to be included in the ruling.
I propose that, in view of good behavior, the probation placed on Khoikhoi (talk · contribs) be lifted so that he is no longer under any Arbitration Committee restrictions. |
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Zeq | 20 July 2006 | 18 August 2006 | Motion to ban Zeq for a week for creating an attack article regarding User:Homeontherange (article has been deleted) diff will be available to Arbitration Committee members. | Permalink to motion |
Everyking | 14 July 2006 | 27 July 2006 |
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Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al | 28 April 2006 | 9 June 2006 |
Since the conclusion of the Arbitration case, StrangerInParadise (talk · contribs) has continued to assume bad faith and make disruptive edits with the StrangerInParadise account while maintaining a separate, older, user account. Thus, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al is modified to include the following remedy:
StrangerInParadise is restricted to one user account. Any sockpuppet accounts will be blocked indefinitely and the main account blocked for up to 48 hours if this is violated. |
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Lyndon LaRouche 2 | 30 April 2006 | 5 May 2006 | Despite involvement in 3 arbitrations, two of which found and prohibited continued advocacy, Herschelkrustofsky (talk · contribs) has continued to violate his arbitration remedies, continued advocacy, continued edit warring, and continued incivility and assmptions of bad faith (see for example [27]).
The background for the most recent ban is at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive91#HK_enforcement. Accordingly, I propose that Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche 2 be modified to include the following remedy:
For violations of his parole, and continued disruption by advocacy, edit warring, incivility, and assumptions of bad faith, Herschelkrustofsky (talk · contribs) is banned from editing Wikipedia for one year. |
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Rajput | 17 April 2006 | 27 April 2006 | Since his arbitration case, DPSingh (talk · contribs) has violated his ruling and been blocked, and then created a whole host of sockpuppets to violate his article ban, and just be generally disruptive and uncivil. See most recent socks at Wikipedia:Requests_for_CheckUser#Rajput_case. I recommend a general ban.
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rajput is modified to include the following remedy:
For continued violation of his article ban for edit warring and incivility using sockpuppets, DPSingh is banned from editing Wikipedia for one year. |
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Xed 2 | 21 April 2006 | 25 April 2006 | Since his second Arbitration case, the personal attack probation against Xed (talk · contribs) imposed in the first case has lapsed, and Xed's behaviour has subsequently deteriorated. This, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Xed 2 is modified to include the following remedy:
For continued personal attacks, Xed is placed indefinitely on personal attack parole. If, in the judgement of any sysop, Xed has breached this ruling, he may be briefly blocked should he make personal attacks, for up to a month in the case of repeat offenses. |
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Lightbringer | 2 April 2006 | 10 April 2006 | Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lightbringer is modified to include the following remedy:
In light of his continued and flagrant violation of his restrictions using sockpuppets, as documented by Category:Wikipedia:Suspected sockpuppets of Lightbringer and Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Lightbringer, Lightbringer is banned from Wikipedia for one year. Clerk note: when adding this entry, it is noted that the user referred to in this motion has been renamed to Lightbringer (usurped - blocked). This is because they were renamed to allow another established wikimedian to take their username in the global account migration process. The user with the username User:LightBringer is completely unrelated to this motion and the associated case. |
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Instantnood 2 | 8 January 2006 | 28 January 2006 | Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Instantnood_2#Instantnood_placed_on_probation is modified to:
Instantnood (talk · contribs) is placed on Wikipedia:Probation for one year. This means that any administrator, in the exercise of judgement for reasonable cause, documented in a section of this decision, may ban them from any article or talk page which they disrupt by inappropriate editing. Instantnood must be notified on their talk page of any bans and a note must also placed on WP:AN/I. |
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Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Instantnood_2#Huaiwei_placed_on_probation is modified to:
Huaiwei (talk · contribs) is placed on Wikipedia:Probation for one year. This means that any administrator, in the exercise of judgement for reasonable cause, documented in a section of this decision, may ban them from any article or talk page which they disrupt by inappropriate editing. Huaiwei must be notified on their talk page of any bans and a note must also placed on WP:AN/I. | ||||
Ciz | 23 December 2005 | 27 January 2006 | Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Ciz#Prevention_from_editing_Zoophilia is modified to:
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Pigsonthewing | 30 December 2005 | 26 January 2006 | Upon review of Pigsonthewing's article edits for the month of December, I find nothing that does not appear to be edit warring. (Updated: It has been pointed out to me that he has some useful edits in the early part of December, but only one of any quality since the case against him closed on the 10th, and nothing but edit warring since the 12th. Kelly Martin (talk) 18:54, 30 December 2005 (UTC)) His probation does not appear to be going well. In general his contributions elsewhere are divisive, bordering on wikistalking of Karmafist and possibly other editors, and his continued presence on Wikipedia is clearly creating more heat than light. Accordingly, I move that Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pigsonthewing be modified include the following remedy:
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2005
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Everyking 3 | 28 December 2005 | 29 December 2005 | Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Everyking 3 is reopened to modified it to include the following additional remedy:
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Regarding The Bogdanov Affair | 18 December 2005 | 23 December 2005 | Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Regarding_The_Bogdanov_Affair#Ban_on_editing_Bogdanov_Affair is extended to include the talk page of the article. | Permalink to motion |
Zen-master | 7 December 2005 | 18 December 2005 | Zen-master's probation is extended to all articles.
Clerk note: the motion did not have any formal arbitrator proposed wording, but the included text is above is what was voted for by a majority of arbs |
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