User:David.Mestel/Free Republic

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Using this as a test to practice opening a case.

Case Opened on 17:25, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


Please do not edit this page directly unless you wish to become a participant in this request. (All participants are subject to Arbitration Committee decisions, and the ArbCom will consider each participant's role in the dispute.) Comments are very welcome on the Talk page, and will be read, in full. Evidence, no matter who can provide it, is very welcome at /Evidence. Evidence is more useful than comments.

Arbitrators will be working on evidence and suggesting proposed decisions at /Workshop and voting on proposed decisions at /Proposed decision.

You may add to the #Log of blocks and bans as needed, but closed cases should not be edited otherwise. Please raise any questions at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Requests for clarification.

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[edit] Involved parties

[edit] Requests for comment

[edit] Statement by Prodego

These parties have been constantly arguing over the content of the article Free Republic, each inserting their own version of WP:NPOV. On the one side, FAAFA and Ben are allegedly anti-Free Republic, while DeanHinnen, who claims to work for Free Republic, is pro-FR. After an initial revert war, there has been a constant bickering on the article's talk page over sources, including a call that was made to a Wikimedia employee, Carolyn Doran, by someone who was allegedly the author of the source, TJ Walker, saying that the story was fake. However, later evidence, the article appearing on an official list of articles written by Walker. The dispute originally started between BryanFromPalatine and Ben/FAAFA, and Bryan was blocked for disruption (by me). He has since been indefinitely blocked for using sockpuppets to evade his block. Now a new user, Dean Hinnen, who uses the same IP as Bryan [1], and claims to be his brother, has taken that point of view. He alleges that Ben and FAFFA are Democratic Underground members, and that they are adding an anti-FR point of view to the article. Hinnen's first edit was to Free Republic, and was immediately blocked (again by me) as a sockpuppet of Bryan's. However, he was unblocked after discussion on unblock-en-l. He is not currently editing the article, and thus avoiding WP:COI. While Dean could be blocked for meatpuppetry, a binding decision needs to be made on the article and on the conduct of these users. This is not a one sided problem, both sides of this debate have valid complaints. In addition to Dean's problems, FAAFA has contacted APJ, which has involved their legal department in Dean's allegation that their article is fake (or plagiarism). BenBurch has been attacking Dean on the article's talk page. This situation needs to be resolved, before it continues to escalate. Prodego talk 01:18, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by Picaroon

I endorse Prodego's words. Although this may seem like a content dispute, it goes far beyond that. With BenBurch and FAAFA on one side and Bryan and his multitudinous sockpuppets on the other (I make no secret of the fact that I think DeanHinnen is Bryan's sockpuppet, regardless of the fact that he's tricked some into believing him a meatpuppet instead) this war has been going on since at least November. The article is a mess, Foundation personnel have become involved, and at least one external (non-Wikimedia) party has been drawn in. The parties are downright hostile to eachother, and the pots and kettles are both the color of coal; I'd go so far as to class one of them as one Wikipedia's top most disruptive not-yet-banned users.

The arbcom needs to step in to (a) determine if bans are needed for the other disputants, (b) determine if Hinnen is BryanFromPalatine evading his community ban, and (c) ratify Bryan's community ban. Article probation would be almost an after-thought, but it is probably a good idea too. Among the policies violated at one time or another by the aforementioned parties are WP:NPOV, WP:3RR, WP:SOCK, WP:CIV, WP:NLT, and WP:NPA. Picaroon 22:16, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by BenBurch

A number of people including several admins have prevailed upon me to stay here, and I will. But if I am less active than usual, please understand. OK? --BenBurch 04:23, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

  1. I rejected mediation as I promised to have nothing whatsoever to do with the Free Republic article, and in fact have recused myself from that article, so could not agree to anything in mediation as I will not be touching that article again.
  2. I have no objection (and have said so repeatedly) with working with ONE copy of BryanFromPalatine, but I object very strongly to block evading and consensus busting sock puppets. He *might* simply be Brian's brother, but if so he only showed up to take up his brother's agenda basically word-for-word. I do wish he would moderate his tone and stop wikilawyering every point that seems to go against his wishes, but I stand ready to work with him in a constructive fashion. (Though I will not be doing so on Free Republic due to my recusal.)
  3. I apologize for being un-civil in my dealings with DeanHinnen, this stems from my conviction that he was there only in evasion of a block and my reaction to his uncivil and threatening tone. I should simply have ignored him, and it is to my own weakness that I did not.
  4. DeanHinnen appears to have manipulated an employee of Wikimedia Foundation into taking action on his behalf with complete falsehoods. He asserted that TJ Walker did not write a piece he did in fact write, he asserted that the piece was libelous when it was not as no true story is libelous no matter how damaging it might be to one's reputation, he claimed to have spoken with TJ Walker, which appears to not have been possible given that he would have Walker denying authorship of a piece we can prove he wrote and published, he claimed to have intimidated American Politics Journal into removing the piece from their web site when the fact is that they were migrating to a content management system and it is taking time to get the older articles back online, all of which he used to argue for removal of sourced and true material that the majority of editors of the Free Republic article had agreed should remain.
  5. Both DeanHinnen and BryanFromPalatine have an identical reaction to not getting their way; They become abusive, threatening, begin wikilawyering, make the edits against consensus, and if none of that works, bring in sock puppets to create the illusion of a change in consensus. This must stop.
  6. I ask for censure for DeanHinnen for his false accusation of felony harassment against me in the recent ANI proceeding; [1]
“ MY GOD, people. I haven't even pointed out half of the %$%#&@$% my family has been through over this. My brother's full name with a link to his home address and phone number were posted on his User page after he had been blocked, and was therefore unable to remove it. The post was made from a single-post open proxy account.

My brother's wife then started receiving crank calls. The police became involved and put a trap on the line. There was one more crank call traced to a pay phone in Elgin, Illinois. BenBurch's User page says that he is from Elgin, Illinois. This is stalking, people. It isn't just Wikistalking. It's real stalking and people who have never been involved with Wikipedia are being victimized. The only reason that I have not been similarly targeted YET is that my number has always been unlisted. And you think more useless warnings are the answer? Dino 17:04, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

 ”

(And I should note that, thanks to the en-unblock-l list I've known his work address and phone for weeks now, and I have not bothered him or his employer - and never would.)

7. I urge the arbitrators to take this case. If I'm found at fault I'll take my lumps. But this matter needs a resolution for the good of this project. --BenBurch 16:55, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by peripherally involved Durova

I heartily support arbitration of this complicated mess. Not long ago I proposed initiating this request myself. Despite improvements in the article, the surrounding dispute is troubling - so much so that I declined Ben Burch's request to investigate it. One of the elements the committee could help resolve that I cannot is the appropriate scope of action by WikiMedia Foundation employees: one removed a referenced statement from the article along with the reference without declaring the edit to be an office action. I consider it likely that disputants at this page had contacted that employee to claim the citation was a hoax. The dispute itself, which defies all effort at resolution, appears to have originated at a different website. This exceeds my abilities as an independent gumshoe. If I did get to the bottom of things I wouldn't be able to fix the problems. Maybe the Committee can. DurovaCharge! 00:06, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by peripherally involved Merzbow

I myself am extremely curious to know who exactly was the source of the call to the Wikimedia foundation. If it was not in fact Mr. Walker, or his representative, then I think we deserve to know that somebody has been manipulating the system in a possibly illegal way to influence article content. - Merzbow 04:07, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by Fairness And Accuracy For All

(refactored) I will readily admit that I have displayed a distinct lack of good faith, good will and civility towards Dean Hinnen. The question is why - and was it justified. I contend that I can categorically prove yes - my conduct was not only justified but entirely appropriate. Underlying issues are if the conclusive evidence showing that Hinnen had been blatantly dishonest from day one, and had acted far outside the bounds of acceptable user conduct by coercing a WMF employee to edit on his behalf through misrepresentation, deceit, and duplicity, along with implied and/or overt threats of legal action, justified my suspension of AGF towards Hinnen, as permissible under AGF. I assert that it did. I urge Arbcom to accept this case and I am so positive that Hinnen's claim that TJ Walker 'admitted' to him that 'he didn't write' his 1999 article - the claim that is responsible for this whole sordid mess (see below) is a fabrication - that If I am wrong, I ask and implore (I would write 'demand' but understand that demands aren't too popular with you guys and gals ;-) that Arbcom permaban me.

Hinnen's very first edit (Jan. 15 edit #1) was to the Free Republic article discussion page announcing that he had coerced WMF employee Carolyn Doran (not an active editor - not a lawyer - and I presume not an expert on WP) to edit on his behalf, to his POV, after claiming that he (Hinnen) had contacted noted and notable author, pundit, and media coach TJ Walker (CBS and National Review and TJ's Insights) who supposedly 'admitted' to Hinnen that he 'did not write' his 1999 article entitled Is the FreeRepublic.Com Really DeathThreat.Com? ( webarchive of article - well worth reading) Hinnen claimed (in his very first edit): "I contacted TJ Walker and asked him whether he authored the article. He said, "Of course not." (quotation marks Hinnen's) and raised the spectre of a possible libel suit against Wikipedia if she didn't.

See my evidence page for more evidence

[edit] Statement by DeanHinnen

There will be an effort by admins and a temptation on the part of Arbitrators to say, "A pox on both your houses" and ban all three of us. I encourage you to resist this temptation and look past the spin-doctoring by others. Look at the facts.

Please forgive the length of this post. There has been so much distortion by others that a lot of words are needed to clarify the facts. Also, there's the inexcusable escalation to WP:STALK that others have carefully tiptoed around, hoping you won't notice.

Please be patient. There's a lot of ground to cover.

Regarding the contacts to TJ Walker's office and WMF, there has been no effort at dispute resolution by anyone. For that reason alone, this issue should not be considered by ArbCom until the proper dispute resolution proceedings have been followed. Also, it's a complex issue; WP:OFFICE can be expected to take adequate care of itself; and there are a lot of other issues to cover that have been exhaustively discussed at several levels of dispute resolution. BenBurch and FAAFA should not be rewarded for refusing to participate in dispute resolution on this issue. Nevertheless, I'm prepared to bring in Carolyn Doran, Chief Operating Officer of WMF, if ArbCom feels like exploring this issue. Carolyn and I had developed a good professional relationship even before my first edit here.

Regarding the sockpuppet claim that others just keep trying to resurrect, despite the fact that it was cremated by the truth weeks ago, read this: “Not a sockpuppet.” I was called a "paragon of civility" at Unblock-en-l. I revealed a substantial amount of personal information to prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that I am not a sockpuppet. In addition to private information made public on Unblock-en-l, I also e-mailed other personal information to some of the admins because I didn't want to make it public.

This started as a content dispute with episodes of edit warring and incivility on one article. Normally it would merit warnings and 24-hour blocks. In response to WP:COI concerns, everyone's attention is cordially directed to the fact I've voluntarily refrained from editing the Free Republic article. This was self-imposed. I did impose it on myself in response to expectations at Unblock-en-l that I'd have to avoid the appearance of being a sockpuppet. But I suggested this specific limitation. It was not suggested by anyone else. I was to be allowed to continue to participate on the Talk page, attempting to convince others to remove a link to an article I find libelous, and no other restrictions were placed on my participation: such as dispute resolution against people who have relentlessly baited Bryan, or editing other articles. Unblock-en-l immediately and unanimously accepted this one limitation as the way to avoid even the appearance of being a sockpuppet or meatpuppet.

If only the others involved in this dispute were as proactive in dealing with their own obvious COI problems. And if we are going to have such processes then other editors and especially administrators, for God's sake, should be expected to accept the results unless strong new evidence comes to light. Otherwise the result is constant warfare as you can see. I should have been able to rely on this decision by Unblock-en-l to protect me, and rely on administrators to accept it and enforce it, because I have adhered to that self-imposed limitation to the letter.

When it comes to libel, I'm not going to compromise or back down. Nor should I be expected to do so. The Siegenthaler case should be remembered here. It didn't just cost Wikipedia attorney fees; even more important, it damaged Wikipedia's reputation. My interests here are to protect Wikipedia from civil liability and further loss of reputation, first and foremost; second, to ensure that WP:BLP and WP:NPOV#Undue_weight are obeyed; and third, to turn bad articles into Good Articles and, hopefully, Featured Articles.

As I said at Unblock-en-l, I recognize that Free Republic, and other conservative organizations and politicians, have their share of warts and blemishes. I do not want to whitewash them despite accusations to the contrary by others. I want fair and balanced articles about them. However, others want to put the warts and blemishes under a microscope. They want to make Wikipedia articles all about the warts and blemishes of conservative organizations and politicians. Compare January 14 versions of Free Republic and Democratic Underground, for example; or February 5 versions of Peter Roskam and Melissa Bean.

I tried RfM. BenBurch almost immediately refused, stating at the time that since he was taking a two-week break from the Free Republic article, he didn't want mediation; ignoring the inevitability of his later resumption of this conflict, either at that article or elsewhere. (Eventually he went out of his way to be sure that the conflict was resumed.)

Later, on the advice of JzG, for a few days I stayed away from the Free Republic article. The libelous material I was concerned about had recently been removed. The Talk page had been the scene of many arguments, and a lot of baiting and badgering by BenBurch and FAAFA. JzG also warned the two of them, in the strongest possible terms, to leave me alone. I thought that moving to a different article would make a difference.

They abandoned that article and followed me to the Peter Roskam article, where their baiting and badgering continued unabated, directed at myself and at others. This escalated the situation from a case of content dispute and incivility to a case of Wikistalking. The Wikipedia policy page contains precedents decided by ArbCom and administrators should have followed them, imposing either one-year blocks or permanent bans against these two at WP:ANI.

That would have been the end of it. I don't have much of a problem with any other editor, certainly nothing that couldn't have been worked out. JzG deliberately refused to enforce the official policy and ArbCom precedents contained in WP:STALK, going so far as to post an animated GIF that represented me beating a dead horse.

I had disengaged. They had followed. I gave them warnings and cited WP:STALK. They ignored my warnings and said, "Bring it on!" Just as they have ignored so many, many previous warnings. Since there are two of them and only one of me, the effect of their constant baiting and harassment has been increased exponentially. I'm not responsible for this escalation, and attempted to remain civil. The deliberate defiance of WP:STALK couldn't be more obvious, and yet JzG and others refused to enforce your policy. And here, they continue to refuse any acknowledgement that WP:STALK has been violated.

The archives of FAAFA's Talk page are wallpapered with warnings, and he's recently returned from a 24-hour block for incivility. The same can be said for BenBurch with the distinction that he returned from his 24-hour block for incivility about ten days ago. BenBurch admits that his purpose for stalking me was to bait me into incivility: "I can think of no other way to force him to get the attention of enough admins to finally get one of them to deal with him." Unbelievably, even after the community solution from WP:ANI, FAAFA continued his baiting.

Despite my efforts I have not always responded to their relentless baiting and intractable POV pushing with complete civility. I've made mistakes in the past and I apologize for those mistakes. I accept responsibility for my actions. Over the past three days I've redoubled my efforts to remain civil despite their baiting. I believe my contrib history confirms this. But as my conduct improved, theirs grew worse. They escalated from a content dispute with moments of incivility to Wikistalking.

Also, they have exhibited a combative disposition and engaged in POV pushing since long before anyone resembling me ever arrived here. Nobody should be allowed to pretend that I am responsible for provoking this conduct. After all, BenBurch got a 24-hour block for "edit warring on Free Republic" in January 2006; and FAAFA (in his previous guise as NBGPWS) was repeatedly blocked. When I arrived, the Free Republic article was a partisan hatchet job.

I ask the arbitrators to recognize the recent improvement in my conduct and my effort to disengage, and the continued escalation of this dispute by FAAFA and BenBurch in refusing to allow me to disengage. The exponential increase in the level of harassment and intimidation in a two-against-one dispute, and in brazen defiance of official WP:STALK policy as expressed by "Bring it on!" should also be considered. Dino 12:32, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by frustrated Daniel.Bryant

This is a case ArbCom has to accept. At one stage around a fortnight ago, there was seven threads on AN/ANI, most retaliatory to other threads, by these four users.

If that wasn't bad enough, the absolute plethora of retalation in the form of Checkuser requests sums it up nicely.

The constant harrasment by both parties against one another via both AN(I) and RFCU is staggering. I urge ArbCom to accept this, possibly even in a speedily manner. Daniel.Bryant 05:13, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by peripherally involved Physicq210

Running the risk of rehashing all the above arguments by bystander editors, I urge ArbCom to accept this case. Throughout the past few months, this dispute has turned from a simple conflict into a full-fledged clash of philosophies, complete with spurious accusations, biting incivility, retaliatory complaints, and general disturbance of the community at large. Pleas for restraint by many users on the various noticeboards and similar channels of discussion towards these three (or four) seem to be of no avail, as they seem bent on gaining the upper hand in the dispute, inappropriateness of mode(s) notwithstanding. WP:ANI threads regarding this topic have become more like exasperating eyesores than incident reports as time passed, with the same arguments recycled and regurgitated again and again, with similar results (in other words, nothing). As the three or four seem to be unable to stop, calm down, and withdraw themselves away from this topic, and the community has been constantly rebuffed in its attempts to mediate the dispute, only ArbCom can bring this tragic episode to an end once and for all. --210physicq (c) 07:47, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by User:JzG

We've tried telling them to leave each other alone, we've tried telling them not to edit the article, we've tried speedily closing their vexatious processes, and they carry on. It's an off-Wiki fight brought to Wikipedia. BryanFromPalatine was the worst offender, and DeanHinnen has already posted by proxy on his behalf into Wikipedia:Requests for comment/BenBurch. We also have the deleted BenBurch, another attempt at vexatious process.

All three have emailed me off list (and presumably others as well). BenBurch and FAAFA have been less overt about soliciting actions against Hinnen than vice-versa, and less assertive, cf. "there is an RfC, can you help" versus "foo is edit-warring". I am also bound to point out that BenBurch's response to being told to butt out is generally "sorry, will do" (see above and the recent thread on WP:ANI [2], whereas Hinnen's is reliably to start arguing how the problem is actually the other two. This may simply reflect the fact that FAAFA and BenBurch have been around a bit longer and know that "but it was him!" does not work well with the parent of two pre-teen sons; I have heard it all before.

What follows is strictly opinion: BenBurch and FAAFA seem somewhat more open to the idea of pulling back, but this may be because in general they have the upper hand. One thing's for sure: it's not going to end without enforceable sanctions. DeanHinnen is not quite right that we are likely to block all three, since the other two seem to have some history of non-disruptive edits, whereas all of the Hinnen brothers' edits appear to be to political subjects and to reflect their highly partisan views (although again neither side is innocent of this).

DeanHinnen's relentless Wikilawyering and pursuit of his vendetta against BenBurch and FAAFA is a large part of the problem. It is clear that he has made it his business to hound them off the project one way or another. Most of his statement above shows precisely this agenda: he wants rid of them because he hates their edits to Free Republic, a site to which he has a known and significant connection. I see absolutely no evidence at any point that Hinnen is prepared to work for compromise, only towards getting rid of BenBurch and FAAFA. They, in their turn, gleefully provoked Bryan into self-destruction (in which he proved a willing participant) and seem to be looking forward to doing the same with Dean.

Ben's statement above is representative of his tone in my dealings with him. In fact, all three are representative: Ben is saying he'll leave well alone, FAAFA describes the dispute showing Hinnen in a bad light, and Hinnen asserts that it's everybody else's fault while continuing to beat the long-dead horse of the sockpuppet case. Cards on the table: I don't really believe him either. A brand new user, at the same IP, piling into the same disputes with the same viewpoint and the same agenda, with zero overlap, and where the supposed brother is a known sockpuppeteer? Maybe it is a different person, but for all the difference we can see it might as well not be.

Guy (Help!) 16:45, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by Tbeatty

FAAFA has a long history of tendentious editing, personal attacks and general disruption. He has recently paired up with User:BenBurch and hounded other editors off articles. DeanHinnen and BryanFromPalatine are recent newcomers who have been relentessly hounded by BenBurch and FAAFA. BryanFromPalatine acted inappropriately by using sockpuppets. The others have tag teamed to bully the newcomer and bait him. I certified the first RfC because the focus of FAAFA and BenBurch was on trying to stop BryanFromPalatine and later DeanHinnens voice be heard about complaints they had about editing practices of the two tendentious editors. They have a valid complaint. There are other editors who have interacted with these two that can provide evidence. FAAFA (formerly User:NBGPWS) has a long history of edit warring and POV pushing. BenBurch has a long history of conflict but also generally adheres to the rules. From what I've seen, the following actions would improve the project but this needs to come from arbcom and I urge you to accept the case. User:BenBurch is on revert parole for political articles and biographies for 1 year. User:NBGPWS/FAAFA is banned from political articles and biographies. User:DeanHinnen is banned from editng Free Republic.

--Tbeatty 23:26, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by peripherally involved User:Grand Slam 7

My only involvement in this case has been one comment at WP:AN/I#Proposed community ban, and I was not aware of the dispute until the start of that thread. However, I would like to join with many of the users above in urging the ArbCom to accept this case. From reading the previous AN/I discussions, it seems clear that they will not stop pursuing vexatious processes against one another until official action is taken.--Grand Slam 7 | Talk 14:05, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by User:Yamla

I am the person who unblocked DeanHinnen after discussion on unblock-en-l. These discussions are public. I stand by my statements that Dean was very civil in his discussions on unblock-en-l. I make no claim as to Dean's civility or that of the other involved members on the Wikipedia itself. We unblocked Dean because of a good-faith assumption that the evidence he presented lead reasonably to the assumption that he is the brother of BryanFromPalistine. This is not certain but it seemed to be appropriate to come to this conclusion. unblock-en-l investigates only whether to unblock someone and specifically makes no attempt to resolve conflicts such as this. Additionally, we are a very small subset of administrators and so do not reflect Wikipedia consensus or even admin consensus generally. I would not consider it inappropriate for my unblock to be overturned if that is the conclusion of this arbitration. I state for the record that my opinion is that this conflict will not be resolved without arbitration, that this is not a simple content dispute, and that the conflict has escalated to a significant and annoying level. --Yamla 14:39, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by User:Lar

I was also involved in the unblock discussions on unblock-en-l and advocated that Dean be unblocked (based on the narrow case presented that he was not a sockpuppet, which was demonstrated to my satisfaction, including by emails to and from me via a work address). Yamla has it just right, he was civil there, unfailingly so, but our decision was a narrow one, not a overall vindication of anything. Dean has, in my view, in some places, acted like he was vindicated in everything because we decided that it was likely he was not a sockpuppet. Subsequent to the unblock I was among the people that warned, counseled, and advised Dean, [3], [4], [5], [6] ... multiple times, that he needed to change his approach. It was my intent to have no further involvement, but I have had some talk page traffic advocating and restating that claim is the last, and some email correspondence from Dean, FAAFA and others (which I will not share publicly without permission, but will make available to ArbCom members on request, but it was garden variety advocacy that I get involved, or advocacy of the rightness or wrongness of the position of various other participants). I had hoped that this matter was not going to come to ArbCom, that community efforts, up to and including the comprehensive set of restrictions referenced by JzG and others, would suffice, and I was intending to advocate that the case be rejected, and the community deal with this. I'm still hopeful that perhaps that would work, and since they seem to be running concurrently, perhaps a go slow approach is called for here, the community may yet deal with this... ++Lar: t/c 13:59, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by User:Jossi

I offered and attempted to act as an informal mediator during December 2006 (See Talk:Free_Republic/Archive4#Informal_mediation.) We had a good start and an initial agreement from involved editors to improve a Talk:Free_Republic/Archive5#Compromise_version, but very quickly it degenerated into a battleground in which everything was fair game, including abusive sockpuppetry, focus on editors viewpoints rather than the improvement of the article, and a total mess of intrigues and attempts to game the system. ArbCom intervention to assess editors' behavior would be most beneficial. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 19:31, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Preliminary decisions

[edit] Arbitrators' opinions on hearing this matter (0/0/0/0)

  • Accept. FloNight 12:59, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Recuse. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 15:20, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Accept to investigate conflict of interest, skullduggery and anything else that comes to light. One thing we don't need to be here is a perch for migrating Internet quarrels. Charles Matthews
  • Accept. - SimonP 14:42, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Accept. Paul August ☎ 16:32, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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