Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-01-02/Arbitration report
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The Report on Lengthy Litigation
The Arbitration Committee opened one new case this week, and closed two cases, leaving four cases currently open.
Closed cases
- RodentofDeath: A case involving alleged personal attacks and policy violations by RodentofDeath on articles including Angeles City. As a result of the case, RodentofDeath was banned for one year, and Susanbryce reminded not to use Wikipedia for purposes of advocacy.
- Episodes and characters: A case involving alleged misconduct with regard to the notability of episodes and characters from television series. As a result of the case, the parties are urged to work collaboratively to seek consensus on the issue.
New case
- IRC: A case involving an alleged personal attack by Tony Sidaway on Bishonen on #wikipedia-en-admins, which led to an edit war on WP:WEA, involving page protection and unprotection by David Gerard, Geogre and others, and a block of Giano II, which was quickly undone.
Evidence phase
- John Buscema: A case involving editing of the John Buscema article by editors including Tenebrae and Skyelarke.
Voting phase
- Dbachmann: A case involving alleged misconduct on the part of administrator Dbachmann and editing by other users on several race-related articles. Arbitrator Kirill Lokshin has proposed remedies banning Bakasuprman and Deeceevoice, admonishing Dbachmann not to use administrator tools in editing disputes, and placing Afrocentrism on article probation.
Case suspended
- Matthew Hoffman: A case involving controversial blocks of MatthewHoffman by a vanished user. Various remedies were proposed including either desysopping or admonishing the vanished user and annotating Matthew Hoffman's block log to reflect the arbitrators' view that the blocks were unjustified. A motion has been passed suspending the case for 30 days (until approximately 20 January 2008) to allow for community input at a request for comment.
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