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This is an archive of motions enacted by theArbitration Committee. For a index of clarification and amendment requests seethis 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 asWikipedia 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.

More recently closed motions on top

2025

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TopicOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Conduct in deletion-related editing18 October 202521 November 2025Remedy 4 (Johnpacklambert topic banned) ofConduct in deletion-related editing is amended as follows:
Johnpacklambert (talk ·contribs) is banned from taking the following actions: (1) participating in deletion discussions, broadly construed, except forcategories for discussion; (2)proposing an article for deletion ("PRODing"), but not contesting a proposed deletion ("de-PRODing"); and (3) turning an article into a redirect. This sanction supersedes hisMarch 2017 community topic ban. This ban may be appealed twelve months after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
Should Johnpacklambert fail to adhere to anynormal editorial process or expectations in the topic area, any uninvolved administrator may remove the categories for discussion exception (therefore reinstating the topic ban for all deletion discussions) as anarbitration enforcement action. Appeal of such a reinstatement would follow the normalarbitration enforcement appeals process. After twelve months from the date this motion is enacted, if the topic ban has not been reinstated or any reinstatements have been successfully appealed, this provision allowing for reinstatement by an uninvolved administrator will automatically lapse.
Motion
Lightbreather3 November 202521 November 2025

The interaction bans assumed by the Arbitration Committee inRemedy 6A (Lightbreather: Interaction bans taken over (alternate)) ofLightbreather are rescinded.

Motion
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures30 October 20252 November 2025Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures#Arbitrator activity and voting is amended to include the following subsection:
Abstention for non-votes

Where an arbitrator does not vote on a proposal that requires anabsolute majority, the process below may be followed.

  • For votes at a Proposed Decision page, or on a motion atWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case,Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions orWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment:
    • At any time after seven days from the proposed decision or motion being posted, any arbitrator (but often one of the drafting arbitrators, or a coordinating arbitrator) may initiate the 'abstention for non-votes' procedure. To initiate this, they will a) post a link to this subsection, along with a ping for each arbitrator potentially affected, to the 'Implementation notes' section of the proposed decision page (or equivalent section for a motion); and b) an email to the arbcom-en mailing list detailing the same.
    • After 72 hours, any arbitrator votes still outstanding will be automatically considered as an abstention for the purposes of that individual proposal.
    • Should an arbitrator who had abstentions automatically registered for proposal(s) under this clause subsequently vote on a proposal before it is closed, that vote will override and replace the automatic abstention.

A vote will not be closed as successful if thetotal number of arbitrators voting on it is less than anabsolute majority of the Committee.

The application of this clause is not automatic, and arbitrators should use their best judgement when deciding whether or not to apply it. Factors that should be considered include levels of communication, statements around voting in the immediate future, as well as the nature and count of the votes.

Note that this process cannot be applied tothe process that governs the removal of an arbitrator.

Motion
Zak Smith27 September 202530 September 2025The topic of Zak Smith is placed under theextended-confirmed restriction. This restriction is set to lapse automatically one year after the enactment of this motion. If an editor believes this restriction should be extended, they may request the Committee consider an extension by posting an amendment request atWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment in the final month of the restriction's timeframe.Motion
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures21 August 202525 September 2025

Wikipedia:Contentious topics#Renewal of page restrictions andWikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures#Renewal of page restrictions are modified as follows:

If an uninvolved administrator (including the original enforcing administrator) decides that a page restriction is still necessary after one year, the administrator may renew the restriction by re-imposing it under this procedure andlogging the renewalnoting the CTOP invoked in the protection reason. The administrator renewing a page restriction then becomes the enforcing administrator.Page protections must clearly note in the protection reason that the protection action is an arbitration enforcement action and link to the applicable contentious topic page (e.g.,WP:CT/BLP), which will cause the action to be automatically logged atWikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/Protections. This does not apply to page restrictions imposed by consensus at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Wikipedia:Contentious topics#Logging andWikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures#Logging 2 are modified as follows:

Contentious topic restrictions, excepting page protections, must be recorded in the arbitration enforcement log by the administrator who takes the action.Page protections must clearly note in the protection reason that the protection action is an arbitration enforcement action and link to the applicable contentious topic page (e.g.,WP:CT/BLP), which will cause the action to be automatically logged atWikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/Protections.

Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures#Logging is modified as follows:

All sanctions and page restrictions, except page protections, must be logged by the administrator who applied the sanction or page restriction atWikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log.Page protections must clearly note in the protection reason that the protection action is an arbitration enforcement action and link to the applicable contentious topic page (e.g.,WP:CT/BLP), which will cause the action to be automatically logged atWikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/Protections.

A central log of all page restrictions and sanctions (including blocks, bans, page protections or other restrictions) placed as arbitration enforcement (including contentious topic restrictions) is to be maintained by the Committee and its clerks atWikipedia:Arbitration enforcement logandWikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/Protections.

Motion
Venezuelan politics6 August 20257 September 2025Following a successful appeal of theirsite ban to the Arbitration Committee,WMrapids (talk ·contribs) is unbanned. Thetopic ban andinteraction ban, which were passed at the same time as the site ban, remain in force.

Further, WMrapids is subject to a one-account restriction. This restriction may be appealed twelve months after the enactment of this motion, and every twelve months thereafter.

Motion
WikiProject Tropical Cyclones16 June 202528 June 2025Remedy 4 (MarioProtIV & NAC) ofWikiProject Tropical Cyclones is rescinded.Motion
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Format of requests for amendment4 May 20255 May 2025In line withupdates to procedural documentation made in November 2024,Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures#Format of requests for amendment is amended by motion with the following change:
(d) The rationale for the requested amendment, comprising no more than1000500 words.
Motion
Noleander18 April 20253 May 2025Remedy 1.1 (Noleander topic-banned) ofNoleander is rescinded.Motion
Tinucherian (talk ·contribs)16 April 202518 April 2025Two motions were enactedMotions
Arbitration Committee procedures § Coordinating arbitrators1 December 202410 January 2025TheArbitration Committee's procedures are amended by adding the following section:
Coordinating arbitrators

The Arbitration Committee shall, from time to time, designate one or more arbitrators to serve as the Committee's coordinating arbitrators.

Coordinating arbitrators shall be responsible for assisting the Committee in the routine administration and organization of its mailing list and non-public work in a similar manner as the existingarbitration clerks assist in the administration of the Committee's on-wiki work.

The specific responsibilities of coordinating arbitrators shall include:

  • Acknowledging the receipt of correspondence and assigning tracking identifiers to pending requests and other matters;
  • Tracking the status of pending matters and providing regular updates and reminders on the status of the Committee's off-wiki work to arbitrators;
  • Reminding members of the Committee to vote or otherwise take action in pending matters;
  • Organizing related correspondence into case files; and
  • Performing similar routine administrative and clerical functions.

A coordinating arbitrator may, but is not required to, state an intention to abstain on some or all matters before the Committee without being listed as an "inactive" arbitrator.

Motion

2024

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TopicOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Amendment request: Palestine-Israel articles (AE referral) andPalestine-Israel articles 517 August 202415 November 2024
  • When imposing acontentious topic restriction under theArab-Israeli conflict contentious topic, an uninvolved administrator may require that appeals be heard only by the Arbitration Committee. In such cases, the committee will hear appeals at ARCA according to thecommunity review standard. A rough consensus of arbitrators will be required to overturn or amend the sanction.
  • Uninvolved administrators may impose word limits on all participants in a discussion, or on individual editors across all discussions, within the area of conflict. These word limits are designated as part of thestandard set of restrictions within theArab-Israeli conflict contentious topic. These restrictions must be logged and may be appealed in the same way as all contentious topic restrictions.
  • All participants in formal discussions (RfCs, RMs, etc) within the area of conflict are urged to keep their comments concise, and are limited to 1,000 words per discussion. This motion willsunset two years from the date of its passage.
  • Following a request atWP:ARCA, the Arbitration Committee directs its clerks to open a case to examine the interaction of specific editors in theWP:PIA topic area. Subject to amendment by the drafting arbitrators, the following rules will govern the case:
    • The case title will bePalestine-Israel articles 5.
    • The initial parties will be:
    • Aoidh will be the initial drafter
    • The case will progress at the usual time table, unless additional parties are added or the complexity of the case warrants additional time for drafting a proposed decision, in which case the drafters may choose to extend the timeline.
    • All case pages are to be semi-protected.
    • Private evidence will be accepted. Any case submissions involving non-public information, including off-site accounts, should be directed to the Arbitration Committee by email toArbcom-en@wikimedia.org. Any links to the English Wikipedia submitted as part of private evidence will be aggregated and posted on the evidence page. Any private evidence that is used to support a proposal (a finding of fact or remedy) or is otherwise deemed relevant to the case will be provided to affected parties when possible (evidence of off-wiki harassment may not be shared). Affected parties will be given an opportunity to respond.
Four motions enacted:motion 1,motion 2b,motion 2c, andmotion 5
Marine 69-7126 October 20247 November 2024Marine 69-71 (talk ·contribs ·blocks ·protections ·deletions ·page moves ·rights ·RfA)'s administrative privileges are revoked. He may apply to have them reinstated at any time via a new request for adminship.Motion
German war effort13 August 202430 August 2024Remedy 3C of theGerman war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") is suspended for a period of six months. During the period of suspension, this topic ban may be reinstated by any uninvolved administrator, as anarbitration enforcement action, shouldCinderella157 (talk ·contribs) fail to adhere to anynormal editorial process or expectations in the topic area. Appeal of such a reinstatement would follow the normalarbitration enforcement appeals process. After six months from the date this motion is enacted, if the topic ban has not been reinstated or any reinstatements have been successfully appealed, the topic ban will automatically lapse.Motion
World War II and the history of Jews in Poland21 June 20248 August 2024Two motions were enacted:Enactedmotion 2 andmotion 3
Historical elections19 July 20247 August 2024Following 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:
  • The case title will beHistorical elections.
  • The initial parties will be:
  • Guerillero will be the initial drafter
  • The case will progress at the usual time table, unless additional parties are added in which case the drafters may choose to extend the timeline.
  • All case pages are to be semi-protected.
  • Private evidence will be accepted. Any case submissions involving non-public information, including off-site accounts, should be directed to the Arbitration Committee by email toArbcom-en@wikimedia.org. Any links to the English Wikipedia submitted as part of private evidence will be aggregated and posted on the evidence page. Any private evidence that is used to support a proposal (a finding of fact or remedy) or is otherwise deemed relevant to the case will be provided to affected parties when possible (evidence of off-wiki harassment may not be shared). Affected parties will be given an opportunity to respond.
Motion
Suspension of Beeblebrox10 July 202417 July 2024TheNovember announcement of the suspension of Beeblebrox is amended to remove the sentenceThese 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 sentenceIn September 2021, within the scope of internal Committee discussions, Beeblebrox was advised that his off-wiki conduct was suboptimal.Motion
Durova4 July 202412 July 2024Principle 2 ofWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Durova,Private correspondence, is changed from
2) In the absence of permission from the author (including of any included prior correspondence)or their lapse into public domain, the contents of private correspondence, including e-mails, should not be posted on-wiki.See Wikipedia:Copyrights.
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 editing18 June 202421 June 2024The Arbitration Committee assumesthe block ofRp2006 (talk ·contribs).Motion
Conduct in deletion-related editing30 April 20243 June 2024TenPoundHammer (talk ·contribs ·deleted contribs ·logs ·filter log ·block user ·block log) is indefinitely topic banned fromremoving 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 onWP:AE, (2) at least two arbitrators indicating "support" to unsuspend atWP:ARCA, with no opposition from other arbitrators indicated up to 48 hours after the second support, or (3) a majority of active arbitrators atWP: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 designation11 April 202420 April 2024Sri Lanka, broadly construed, is designated as a contentious topic.motion
Skepticism and coordinated editing16 April 202420 April 2024For 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 311 April 202418 April 2024Remedy 3.1 of the caseArmenia-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 Committee5 February 202414 February 2024The Arbitration Committee resolves to amend the scope of block appeals it handles, thus updating the guidance fromprevious 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 anOversight 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 aCheckUser 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.

motion
Mzajac2 February 20246 February 2024GivenMzajac (talk ·contribs)'s absence from editing, theMzajac 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 toarbcom-en@wikimedia.org or at theclerks' noticeboard. Mzajac will remain temporarily desysopped for the duration of the case.

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 successfulrequest for adminship.

motion
Severity of arbitration remedies25 January 202430 January 2024Add the following to theArbitration Procedures as a subsection of "Arbitration Proceedings"

When used in arbitration motions or remedies, the words below should be considered to have the following order of severity:

  1. Remind (weakest)
  2. Warn
  3. Admonish (strongest)
motion
PIA Canvassing4 January 202420 January 20246 Motions were passed as follows:
  1. Since at least October 2023, there has been an ongoing effort by one or more banned editors to canvass discussions within theIsrael-Palestine topic area and asking for proxy edits to promote a pro-Israel point of view. Based on the evidence received by the Committee, the following discussions have been targeted:
    The Arbitration Committee would like to thank the editors who reported canvassing. If editors have any additional canvassing evidence, please bring it to the Committee's attention. The Arbitration Committee asks the Wikimedia Foundation for assistance creating technical measures to prevent the ongoing abuse.
  2. Based on information from the checkuser tool and on information received, the Committee determines thatDovidroth (talk ·contribs) most likely participated in discussions due to canvassing and made proxy edits for a banned editor. As a result, they are indefinitely banned from Wikipedia. This ban may be appealed immediately after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
  3. Based on information from the checkuser tool and on information received, the Committee determines thatDovidroth (talk ·contribs) most likely made proxy edits for a banned editor. As a result, they are indefinitelytopic banned from making edits related tothe Arab-Israeli conflict,broadly construed. This ban may be appealed immediately after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
  4. Based on information from the checkuser tool and on information received, the Committee determines thatEytanMelech (talk ·contribs) most likely made proxy edits for a banned editor. As a result, he is indefinitely banned from Wikipedia. This ban may be appealed immediately after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
  5. Based on information from the checkuser tool and on information received, the Committee determines thatEytanMelech (talk ·contribs) most likely made proxy edits for a banned editor. As a result, they are indefinitelytopic banned from making edits related tothe Arab-Israeli conflict,broadly construed. This ban may be appealed immediately after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
  6. Based on information from the checkuser tool and on information received, the Committee determines thatHomerethegreat (talk ·contribs) most likely participated in discussions due to canvassing and made proxy edits for a banned editor. As a result, they are indefinitelytopic banned from making edits related tothe Arab-Israeli conflict,broadly construed. This ban may be appealed immediately after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
Enacted motions,ACN Announcement
GiantSnowman2 January 20247 January 2024Remedy 1.2 of theGiantSnowman case ("GiantSnowman admonished and placed under review") is amended to read as follows:

1.2) GiantSnowman is admonished for overuse of the rollback and blocking functions, and reminded to"lead by example" and "strive to model appropriate standards of courtesy"; to"respond promptly and civilly to queries about their Wikipedia-related conduct and administrative actions and to justify them when needed"; to not use admin tools in"cases in which they have been involved" including "conflicts with an editor" and "disputes on topics"; to"treat newcomers with kindness and patience"; and to apply these principles in all interactions with all editors.

With the exception of obvious vandalism or obvious violations of the policy on biographies of living persons:

  • GiantSnowman is prohibited from reverting another editor's contribution without providing an explanation in the edit summary. Default edit summaries provided by MediaWiki or user scripts are not sufficient for the purpose of this restriction. For the avoidance of doubt, use of MediaWiki rollback with an edit summary via a user script such asthis one, or via massRollback.js, is permitted.
  • GiantSnowman is prohibited from blocking an editor who has not been recently warned for the conduct in question. For the purposes of this restriction, "recently" is assumed to be within 7 days.

Violations may be reported by any editor tothe Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard. GiantSnowman mayappeal these restrictions directly to the Arbitration Committee at any time.

Enacted motion
Antisemitism in Poland
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Reliable source consensus-required restriction
31 December 20234 January 2024Clerks are instructed to add a new section, entitled "Reliable source consensus-required restriction" to the Enforcement section of theArbitration Procedures with the following text:

The Committee may apply the "Reliable source consensus-required restriction" to specified topic areas. For topic areas with this restriction, when a source that is not an article in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, an academically focused book by a reputable publisher, and/or an article published by a reputable institution is removed from an article, 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 theReliable Sources Noticeboard. Administrators may enforce this restriction with page protections, topic bans, or blocks; enforcement decisions should consider not merely the severity of the violation but the general disciplinary record of the editor in violation.

Remedy 5 ofAntisemitism in Poland is superseded by the following restriction:

All articles and edits in the topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland are subject to a "reliable source consensus-required restriction".

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Eastern Europe is amended to include the following restriction:

All articles and edits in the topic area of Lithuania history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Lithuania are subject to a "reliable source consensus-required 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

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TopicOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Editor conduct in e-cigs articles2 November 202311 November 2023TheExtended Confirmed Restriction is amended as follows:

The Committee may apply the "extended confirmed restriction" to specified topic areas. When such a restriction is in effect in a topic area, onlyextended-confirmed editors may make edits related to the topic area, subject to the following provisions:

  1. The restriction applies to all edits and pages related to the topic area, broadly construed, with the following exceptions:
    1. Non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespaceonly topost constructive comments andmakeedit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided they are not disruptive. Should disruption occur on "Talk:" pages, administrators may take enforcement actions described in "B" or "C" below.However, non-extended-confirmed editors maynot make edits to internal project discussions related to the topic area, even within the "Talk:" namespace. Internal project discussions include, but are not limited to, AfDs, WikiProjects, RfCs, RMs, and noticeboard discussions.
    2. Non-extended-confirmed editors may not create new articles, but administrators may exercise discretion when deciding how to enforce this remedy on article creations. Deletion of new articles created by non-extended-confirmed editors is permitted but not required.
  2. If a page (other than a "Talk:" page) mostly or entirely relates to the topic area, broadly construed, this restriction is preferably enforced throughextended confirmed protection, though this is not required.
  3. On any page where the restriction is not enforced through extended confirmed protection, this restriction may be enforced by other methods, including page protection, reverts, blocks, the use of pending changes, and appropriate edit filters.
  4. Reverts made solely to enforce this restriction are not considered edit warring.
Enacted motion
Editor conduct in e-cigs articles13 October 202319 October 2023Remedy 1 ofEditor 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 theprocedures.Enacted motion
Liancourt Rocks13 October 202319 October 2023The final remedy ofLiancourt Rocks ("Contentious topic designation") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the contentious topic authorization remain in force and are governed by theprocedures.Enacted motion
Longevity13 October 202319 October 2023Remedy 1 ofLongevity ("Contentious topic designation") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the contentious topic authorization remain in force and are governed by theprocedures.Enacted motion
Medicine13 October 202319 October 2023Remedy 2 ofMedicine ("Contentious topic designation") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the contentious topic authorization remain in force and are governed by theprocedures.Enacted motion
September 11 conspiracy theories13 October 202319 October 2023Remedy 2 ofSeptember 11 conspiracy theories ("Contentious topic designation") is rescinded due to the topic area being covered by thepost-1992 American Politics contentious topic. All actions taken under the rescinded authorization remain in force and are governed by theprocedures.Enacted motion
Shakespeare authorship question13 October 202319 October 2023Remedy 1 ofShakespeare 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 theprocedures.Enacted motion
Macedonia 213 October 202319 October 2023The following remedies fromMacedonia 2 are rescinded:
  • Remedy 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned)
  • Remedy 6 (Stalemate resolution)
  • Remedy 30 (Administrative supervision)

Editors are reminded thatEastern Europe and theBalkans, broadly construed, continues to be a contentious topic.

Enacted motion
The Troubles13 October 202319 October 2023Remedy 6 of theThe Troubles case ("One-revert rule") is amended to read as follows:

Aone revert restriction (1RR), subject to the usual exceptions, is applied to all pages relating toThe Troubles, Irish nationalism, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland, broadly construed.

Enacted motion
Prem Rawat8 October 202310 October 2023ThePrem 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 thecontentious topics procedure.Enacted motion
Mark Ironie and CorbieVreccan
(from case request entitledCorbieVreccan, Mark Ironie, and Tamzin)
12 September 202317 September 2023Mark Ironie (talk ·contribs) andCorbieVreccan (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 Cyclones28 August 20238 September 2023Remedy 9 of theWikiProject Tropical Cyclones case ("MarioProtIV topic ban") is rescinded.Enacted motion
Paradise Chronicle28 July 20231 August 2023Paradise Chronicle (talk ·contribs) is indefinitely site-banned.Enacted motion
Manning naming dispute11 June 202317 June 2023The direct quotes linked in Findings of Fact 15, 16, and 18.1 of theManning naming dispute are replaced by their respective Special:Diff link.Enacted motion
Conduct in deletion-related editing23 February 202326 February 2023Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of theConduct 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 39 January 202327 January 2023The 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 (seeArbCom procedures).Enacted motion
Closing Clarification and Amendment Requests3 January 20238 January 2023A section titled "Closing" will be added toWikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures under "Requests for amendment" with the following text:

Arequest for clarification or amendment is eligible to be closed by an arbitrator if:

  1. A rough consensus has been reached among arbitrators participating in the request; and
  2. The rough consensus does not require a vote to implement (e.g. modifying the remedy to a case).

The closing arbitrator should include a summary of the rough consensus when closing the request for clarification or amendment.

Enacted motion

2022

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TopicOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
2021-22 contentious topics (discretionary sanctions) review13 November 202214 December 2022Seefinal 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 atWP:AC/P andWP: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 the2021-22 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 202219 November 2022The first step of theLevel 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 20226 November 2022On recommendation of theElectoral Commission, temporary English Wikipedia checkuser privileges are granted tostewardsSotiale,Martin Urbanec, andHasley solely for the purpose of their acting asscrutineers in the 2022 Arbitration Committee election.Enacted motion
Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara’s block15 October 202216 October 2022

The Arbitration Committee directs its clerks to open a case to examine the reversal and reinstatement ofAthaenara (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:

  • The case title will beReversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block. The initial parties will beLourdes (talk ·contribs) andTheresNoTime (talk ·contribs).
  • The evidence phase will be shortened to one week. Parties are particularly invited to submit statements about their own actions.
  • There will be no workshop phase.
  • Non-parties are discouraged from submitting evidence that has already been submitted to the Arbitration Committee through the case request process.
  • Any case submissions involving non-public information should be directed to the Arbitration Committee by email toarbcom-en@wikimedia.org.
Enacted motion
Level 2 desysop of Athaenara15 October 202216 October 2022This case request was brought to review the administrative status ofAthaenara (talk ·contribs), a then-administrator who wasindefinitely blocked for personal attacks. Subsequently, the Arbitration Committeeresolved to remove Athaenara’s administrative privileges through itsLevel 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 atarbcom-en@wikimedia.org within three months of the enactment of this motion. The Committee will then decide whether to open a case or resolve the matter by motion. If Athaenara does not make such a request within the three-month period, she will remain desysopped and may regain the administrative tools only through a successfulrequest for adminship.
Enacted motion
Lightbreather18 September 202221 September 2022Remedy 1 of theLightbreather case is suspended for a probationary period lasting twelve months from the date this motion is enacted. During this period, any uninvolved administrator may blockLightbreather (talk ·contribs) for any of the behaviors identified in theFindings of Fact or for failure to adhere to any normaleditorial process or expectations as an Arbitration Enforcement action for up to 1 year. Any block 3 months or longer should be reported to theArbitration 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 editing19 September 202221 September 2022Remedy 11 of theConduct 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 images17 August 202231 August 2022Remedy 8.1 of theMuhammad images case ("Discretionary sanctions") is rescinded two months after this motion is enacted.Enacted motion
ACN announcement
Rachel Marsden8 May 202215 May 2022Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case ("Articles which relate to Rachel Marsden") is rescinded.Enacted motion
ACN announcement
St Christopher22 April 202226 April 2022Remedy 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#Clerks16 April 202226 April 2022The Arbitration Committee procedures is amended to add a new section "Clerks" (level 2) and a subsection entitled "Terms" with the following text:

Trainee clerks will have a term of up to 1 year after their appointment as a trainee to be promoted to full clerk. This term may be extended by the Committee.

Full clerks will be asked to confirm their desire to stay a clerk every 2 years, from the date they were appointed as a full clerk. There are no term limits for full clerks.

Enacted motion
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures#Opening of proceedings21 March 202229 March 2022The Arbitration Committee procedure on "Opening of proceedings" (Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings) is amended so the first line reads:

A case is eligible to be opened when it meets all of the following criteria

Enacted motion
Kurds and Kurdistan16 March 202220 March 2022Supreme 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
Timwi1 February 202211 February 2022The 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 ofWP: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 movement27 January 20225 February 2022Remedy 7 of theTranscendental 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 thediscretionary sanctions procedure.Enacted motion
Ancient Egyptian race controversy27 January 20225 February 2022The first sentence of theJanuary 2014 motion in theAncient 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 thediscretionary sanctions procedure.Enacted motion
Obsolete probation-like sanctions27 January 20224 February 2022Remedies 6, 7, and 8 of theAsmahan case (relating to article probation and discretionary sanctions) are rescinded.
Remedy 2 of theWaterboarding case ("General restriction") is rescinded. Where appropriate, the discretionary sanctions authorized in theAmerican 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 thestandard procedure for arbitration enforcement appeals.

Enacted motion
Article probation revocation27 January 20222 February 2022
  1. Remedy 5 of theNeuro-linguistic programming case ("Mentorship") is rescinded.
  2. Remedy 2.1 of theOccupation of Latvia case ("Article probation") is rescinded.
  3. Remedy 2 of theShiloh case ("Article-related Probation") is rescinded.
  4. Remedy 14.3 of theObama articles case ("Articles semi-protected") is rescinded.
  5. The Arbitration Committee clarifies that the article probation referenced inFinding of Fact 3 of theObama articles case ("Articles placed on probation") and subject to review inRemedy 1.1 of theObama articles case ("Article probation review") is no longer in effect pursuant to aMarch 2015 community discussion, but related articles may be covered by remedies in theAmerican politics 2 case.

Any actions previously taken in accordance with the foregoing remedies remain in force, and appeals and modifications therefrom shall be governed by thestandard procedure for arbitration enforcement appeals.

Enacted motion
Landmark Worldwide27 January 20222 February 2022TheJanuary 2015 motion in theLandmark 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 thediscretionary sanctions procedure.Enacted motion
Scientology27 January 20221 February 2022Remedy 4.1 of theScientology case ("Discretionary sanctions authorised") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the discretionary sanctions authorization remain in force and are governed by thediscretionary sanctions procedure.Enacted motion
Waldorf education27 January 20221 February 2022The first sentence of theJanuary 2013 motion in theWaldorf 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 thediscretionary sanctions procedure.Enacted motion
Senkaku Islands27 January 20221 February 2022Remedy 7 of theSenkaku Islands case ("Discretionary sanctions") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the discretionary sanctions authorization remain in force and are governed by thediscretionary sanctions procedure.Enacted motion
Motion: Crouch, Swale7 January 202210 January 2022Crouch, Swale's editing restrictions, previously modifiedin 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 hispage move restriction. Hisrestriction on frequency of appeals remains in force.Enacted motion
ACN announcement
Resolution by motion of the case requestWarsaw concentration camp1 January 202210 January 2022This request for arbitration is resolved as follows:
  1. The request for an arbitration case to resolve the issue of a potential conflict of interest asoriginally posted is declined, as the community has resolved the issue presented.
  2. The request for an arbitration case as subsequently revised to address misconduct in the topic area of the Holocaust in Poland is declined at this time, based on the terms of this motion.
  3. Editors are reminded thatstandard discretionary sanctions andspecial sourcing restrictions remain in effect for articles relating to the Holocaust in Poland. These provisions are to be interpreted and enforced with the goal of ensuring that Wikipedia's coverage of this important and sensitive topic is fairly and accurately presented based on the most reliable sources available, while maintaining a reasonable degree of decorum and collaboration among editors.
  4. Requests to enforce the discretionary sanctions or sourcing restrictions should be posted to thearbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE) for evaluation by uninvolved administrators. The sanctions and restrictions should be interpreted and enforced so as to promote our content-quality and user-conduct expectations. Enforcement discussions should focus on the accuracy of our articles and the well-being of our editors, not on procedural technicalities beyond those necessary to ensure fairness.
    As an alternative to AE, editors may make enforcement requests directly to the Arbitration Committee atWP:ARCA. The committee will consider presented evidence and statements before deciding by motion what, if any, actions are necessary to enforce proper conduct in the topic area.
  5. The community, particularly including any editors with subject-matter knowledge who have not previously been active in this topic-area, is urged to carefully review the accuracy and sourcing of our articles on the Holocaust in Poland and related topics, with the goal of identifying and addressing any deficiencies that might exist, and implementing any other improvements that may be possible. Appropriate user-conduct is required during all discussions that are part of any such review.
  6. Editors in good standing who have withdrawn from editing in this topic-area, who are prepared to abide by all the relevant policies and expectations, are invited to return to editing.
  7. Should further alleged misconduct affecting our articles on the Holocaust in Poland take place, or be discovered, a new request for arbitration may be filed. The request for arbitration, and any responses to it, should identify specific instances of misconduct that is affecting the content of or editing environment on these articles. Reasonable extensions of the word limits, where warranted, will be afforded to allow the presentation of relevant and significant evidence.In addition to the usual processes, a consensus of administrators at AE may refer complex or intractable issues to the Arbitration Committee for resolution atARCA, at which point the committee may resolve the request by motion or open a case to examine the issue.[removed byWP:HJP, remedy 11a] In the event that an arbitration case is opened, the Committee will give serious consideration to requests to hold part or all of the casein camera.
  8. Editors are reminded that Wikipedia discussions are aboutforming a consensus, not convincingeveryone to agree. Discussion is an important part of how consensus is reached on Wikipedia and everyone should have the opportunity to express their views, withinreasonable limits. It may be taken asdisruptive to attemptstalling out the consensus-building process by repeatedly stating an opinion or withrepeated demands for re-explanation of that which has already been clearly explained.
  9. Editors participating in Arbitration Committee proceedings are reminded that they are subject to high standards of behavior. Editors are required to act with appropriate decorum. While grievances must often be aired during proceedings, editors are expected to air them without being incivil or engaging in personal attacks, and to respond calmly to allegations. Accusations of misbehavior must be supported by clear evidence (and otherwise not made at all). Statements containing private or sensitive information should be submitted to the Arbitration Committee by email and are subject to thearbitration policy's provisions on admissibility of evidence.
motion
ACN announcement
2 January 2022Jehochman (talk ·contribs) is admonished for behavior during this case request which fell short of the expectations foradministrators and for the behavior of all editors participating in an Arbitration Committee proceeding. Specifically, Jehochmanproxied 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]motion
ACN announcement
MyMoloboaccount (talk ·contribs) is warned against casting aspersions towards other editors[4]. This warning should be considered as a sanction for the purposes ofawareness in the topic areas of Eastern Europe and the Holocaust in Poland.motion
ACN announcement
American politics 26 January 20229 January 2022Atsme'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.motion
ACN announcement
Scientology4 January 20227 January 2022

Remedy 2 of theScientology arbitration case, "Church of Scientology IP addresses blocked", is hereby rescinded. Any remaining blocks currently in force may be lifted or appealed according to theunblocking policy.

Enacted motion
ACN announcement

2021

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TopicOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Horn of Africa14 November 202129 November 2021The already authorized standarddiscretionary sanctions for all pages relating to theHorn 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.motion
ACN announcement
Temporary checkuser privileges for scrutineers1 November 20212 November 2021On recommendation of theElectoral Commission, temporary English Wikipedia checkuser privileges are granted tostewardsSotiale,Martin Urbanec, andTks4Fish solely for the purpose of their acting asscrutineers in the 2021 Arbitration Committee election.motion
ACN announcement
Extended confirmed restriction omnibus motion11 September 202120 September 2021In order to standardize the extended confirmed restriction, the following subsection is added to the"Enforcement" section of theArbitration Committee's procedures:
Extended confirmed restriction

The Committee may apply the "extended confirmed restriction" to specified topic areas. When such a restriction is in effect in a topic area, onlyextended-confirmed editors may make edits related to the topic area, subject to the following provisions:

A. The restriction applies to all edits and pages related to the topic area, broadly construed, with the following exceptions:
1. Non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace to post constructive comments and make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided they are not disruptive. Should disruption occur on "Talk:" pages, administrators may take enforcement actions described in "B" or "C" below. However, non-extended-confirmed editors maynot make edits to internal project discussions related to the topic area, even within the "Talk:" namespace. Internal project discussions include, but are not limited to, AfDs, WikiProjects, RfCs, RMs, and noticeboard discussions.
2. Non-extended-confirmed editors may not create new articles, but administrators may exercise discretion when deciding how to enforce this remedy on article creations. Deletion of new articles created by non-extended-confirmed editors is permitted but not required.
B. If a page (other than a "Talk:" page) mostly or entirely relates to the topic area, broadly construed, this restriction is preferably enforced throughextended confirmed protection, though this is not required.
C. On any page where the restriction is not enforced through extended confirmed protection, this restriction may be enforced by other methods, including page protection, reverts, blocks, the use of pending changes, and appropriate edit filters.
D. Reverts made solely to enforce this restriction are not considered edit warring.

Remedy 7 of theAntisemitism in Poland case ("500/30 restriction") is retitled "Extended confirmed restriction" and amended to read as follows:

Extended confirmed restriction

7) Theextended confirmed restriction is imposed on edits and pages related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland, broadly construed.Standard discretionary sanctions as authorized by theEastern Europe arbitration case remain in effect for this topic area.

Remedy 5 of thePalestine-Israel articles 4 case (ARBPIA General Sanctions) is amended by replacing item B with the following:

Extended confirmed restriction: Theextended confirmed restriction is imposed on the area of conflict.

motion
Palestine-Israel articles 428 June 202112 July 2021The phrase"other internal project discussions", as used inRemedy 5 of thePalestine-Israel articles 4 case ("ARBPIA General Sanctions"), shall be construed to includerequested moves.motion
ACN Announcement
Interaction ban between Praxidicae and Ritchie3331 July 20213 July 2021In the interest of furthering discussion around the UCOC, admin sanctions, and other such reforms, theinteraction ban between Praxidicae and Ritchie333 is amended after the last sentence to addParties may discuss the existence of the ban, and examine its implications, but remain forbidden from discussing each other and interacting with each other.motion
ACN Announcement
COVID-198 June 202116 June 2021(i) The communityCOVID-19 general sanctions are hereby rescinded and are replaced bystandard 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 becomealerts 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 thearbitration 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 thearbitration enforcement noticeboard.
motion
ACN Announcement
Antisemitism in Poland9 May 2021Remedy 5 of theAntisemitism 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 theReliable Sources Noticeboard.motion
ACN Announcement
User:Carlossuarez461 April 20218 April 2021The "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.

motion
ACN announcement
Kurds and Kurdistan25 February 202126 February 2021The 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.motion
ACN Announcement
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures18 February 202126 February 2021Once 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:

  1. An evidence phase that lasts two weeks from the date of the case pages opening;
  2. A workshop phase, that ends one week after the evidence phase closes;
  3. A proposed decision which is published within one week of the workshop phase closing.

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 ofWikipedia: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.

motion
ACN announcement
Gender and sexuality17 February 202122 February 2021In order to promote consistency and reduce confusion, the arbitration clerks are directed to create a new arbitration case page under the nameGender 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) ofRemedy 1.1 of theGamerGate case ("Discretionary sanctions") is rescinded. Sanctions previously issued in accordance with Remedy 1.1 of theGamerGate case will from this time on be consideredGender and sexuality sanctions. This motion does not invalidate any action previously taken under theGamerGate discretionary sanctions authorization.

In order to preserve previous clarifications about the scope of these discretionary sanctions:

  1. Gender and sexuality discretionary sanctions apply to any dispute regarding the proper article title, pronoun usage, or other manner of referring to any individual known to be or self-identifying as transgender.
  2. Gender and sexuality discretionary sanctions apply to any discussion regarding systemic bias faced by female editors or article subjects on Wikipedia, including any discussion involving the Gender Gap Task Force.
  3. Remedy 15 of theManning naming dispute case ("Discretionary sanctions applicable"), as amended, is rescinded.
  4. The final clause of theFebruary 2019Manning naming dispute motion (adding an amendment to theInteractions at GGTF case) is rescinded.

The index of topics with an active discretionary sanctions provision will be updated with the new title, but previous references toGamerGate 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 theGamerGate case, the newGender and sexuality case, theManning naming dispute case, and theInteractions at GGTF case.

motion
ACN Announcement
MONGO5 February 202112 February 2021Remedy 1 of theMONGO 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."motion
ACN Announcement
American politics 210 January 202119 January 2021Remedy 1.2 of theAmerican 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.motion
ACN Announcement

2020

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TopicDate enactedPermalink to motionOutcomeOther relevant links (including ACN)
The Rambling Man30 December 2020motionThe 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 Poland18 December 2020motionRemedy 4b ofAntisemitism in Poland ("Volunteer Marek topic-banned") is rescinded.ACN announcement
Temporary checkuser privileges for scrutineers20 October 2020MotionOn recommendation of theElectoral Commission, temporary English Wikipedia checkuser privileges are granted tostewardsMardetanha,Martin Urbanec, andTks4Fish solely for the purpose of their acting asscrutineers in the 2020 Arbitration Committee election.ACN announcement
Portals15 October 2020motionRemedies 1 & 2 of thePortals case are temporarily lifted, only atWikipedia:Requests for adminship/BrownHairedGirl 2 and related pages, and only until the conclusion of the RfA process.ACN announcement
Abortion22 September 2020motionThe one-revert restriction on all articles related to abortion, authorized by the communityhere and modified by the Arbitration Committee in theAbortion 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 roles9 September 2020motionBased on the outcome of the community discussion atWikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RFC: Multiple roles for active arbitrators, theArbitration Committee procedures are amended by adding a new Section 1.6, providing:

To avoid any potential conflicts of interest, current arbitrators may not serve as members of either theOmbuds Commission or theWMF Case Review Committee while serving as arbitrators.

ACN announcement
North800026 August 2020motionNorth8000 (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 toWP:ARCA if warranted. Any restrictions not reimposed will automatically expire at the end of the one year period.ACN announcement
Climate change12 August 2020motionThe restriction imposed onHipocrite (talk ·contribs) by Remedy 14 of the Climate change case ("Hypocrite topic-banned") is hereby lifted.ACN announcement
Brahma Kumaris17 July 2020motionRemedy 3 ofWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Brahma Kumaris, "article probation", is hereby terminated.ACN announcement
Genetically modified organisms2 July 2020motionDavid Tornheim's topic ban from glyphosate, imposed as a discretionary sanction on28 July 2016 and amended on23 April 2019, is rescinded.ACN announcement
Antisemitism in Poland: Motion (May 2020)30 May 2020motion500/30 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.
    • Editors who are not eligible to be extended-confirmed may use the Talk: namespace to post constructive comments and make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided they are not disruptive. Talk pages where disruption occurs may be managed by the methods mentioned above.
ACN announcement
Updates to appeals proceduren/amotionNot carried; archived 24 FebruaryArchive link
Ricky81682 block appeal17 January 2020motionRicky81682 (talk ·contribs) is unblocked subject to an indefiniteaccount restriction: Ricky81682 is restricted to one account, and may not edit anonymously.ACN announcement
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 11#Crouch, Swale ban appeal08 January 2020motionThe request for modification ofCrouch, 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 restrictionsACN announcement
Magioladitis 208 January 2020motionRemedy 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 Man08 January 2020motionRemedy 4 (The Rambling Man prohibited) ofThe Rambling Man arbitration case is vacated, together with the associatedspecial enforcement provisions.ACN announcement

2019

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TopicDate enactedPermalink to motionOutcomeOther relevant links (including ACN)
Antisemitism in Poland01 December 2019motionRemedy 2 ofAntisemitism in Poland ("Icewhiz and Volunteer Marek interaction-banned") is renamedIcewhiz banned from interacting with Volunteer Marek and amended to read:
Icewhiz (talk ·contribs) is indefinitely banned frominteracting with or commenting onVolunteer Marek (talk ·contribs) anywhere on Wikipedia (subject to theordinary exceptions).
ACN announcement
Sexology23 November 2019motionRemedy 2.1 ofSexology ("Jokestress topic-banned from human sexuality") is amended to read:
Jokestress (talk ·contribs) is indefinitely banned from the topic of human sexuality and gender, including biographies of people who are primarily notable for their work in these fields.
ACN announcement
Temporary checkuser permission for election scrutineers25 October 2019MotionTemporary Checkuser rights are granted toBase,Shanmugamp7, andEinsbor for the purpose of their acting as Scrutineers in the 2019 Arbitration Committee election.ACN announcement
Palestine-Israel articles 416 August 2019motionThe committee opens proceedings on pages relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict, naming itPalestine-Israel articles 4. Proceedings will take placein 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:
  • Trends in disruptive editing of related pages, but not the specific conduct of any editor.
  • Difficulties in Wikipedia administrative processes, particularlyarbitration enforcement (AE), with regard to related pages.
  • Currently-authorised remedies under any arbitration decision that affect related pages.
  • Prospective amendments to, or replacements for, existing remedies.
  • Other general matters relating to the ease with which Wikipedia keeps order on pages relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict.
ACN announcement
The Rambling Man9 August 2019motionIn remedy 9, "The Rambling Man prohibited", the first paragraph is amended to read:
9)The Rambling Man (talk ·contribs) istopic banned from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, theDid You Know? process.As an exception, he may review any DYK nomination at the direct request of the nominator, but may not engage in subsequent discussion of the nomination. This topic ban does not apply toUser:The Rambling Man/ERRORS and its talk page or to articles linked from DYK hooks or captions (these may be at any stage of the DYK process).
ACN announcement
Discretionary sanctions16 July 2019motionTheAwareness section of thediscretionary 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:

  1. They were mentioned by name in the applicable Final Decision; or
  2. They have ever been sanctioned within the area of conflict (and at least one of such sanctions has not been successfully appealed); or
  3. In the last twelve months, the editor has given and/or received analert for the area of conflict; or
  4. In the last twelve months, the editor has participated in any process about the area of conflict atarbitration requests orarbitration enforcement; or
  5. In the last twelve months, the editor has successfully appealed all their own sanctions relating to the area of conflict; or
  6. They have placed a{{DS/Aware}} template for the area(s) of conflict on their own talk page.
ACN announcement
Discretionary sanctions19 April 2019motionThe following text is added to the "Important notes" section of thestandard provision on appeals and modifications, replacing the current text of the fourth note:
All actions designated as arbitration enforcement actions, including those alleged to be out of process or against existing policy, must first be appealed following arbitration enforcement procedures to establish if such enforcement is inappropriate before the action may be reversed or formally discussed at another venue.
ACN announcement
WP:AC/P10 April 2019motion

Since November 2018, six accounts have been desysopped under theLevel I desysopping procedures as compromised administrator accounts. The Arbitration Committee reminds administrators that they arerequired to "havestrong passwords andfollow 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 atWikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Removal of permissions, subsectionReturn of permissions, is replaced by the following:

Removal is protective, intended to prevent harm to the encyclopedia while investigations take place, and the advanced permissions will normally be reinstatedonceif a satisfactory explanation is provided or the issues are satisfactorily resolved. If the editor in question requests it, or if the Committee determines that a routine reinstatement of permissions is not appropriate, normal arbitration proceedings shall be opened to examine the removal of permissions and any surrounding circumstances.

In cases where an administrator account was compromised, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions. Factors used to make this determination include: whether the administrator used a strong password on both their Wikipedia account and associated email account; whether the administrator had reused passwords across Wikipedia or the associated email account and other systems; whether the administrator had enabled two-factor authentication; and how the account was compromised.

If the Committee determines the administrator failed to secure their account adequately, the administrator will not be resysopped automatically. Unless otherwise provided by the committee, the administrator may regain their administrative permissions through a successfulrequest for adminship.

ACN announcement
Necrothesp10 April 2019motionOn March 14, 2019, the administrator permissions ofNecrothesp (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 theprocedures for return of revoked permissions, the Arbitration Committee resolves the following:

The administrator permissions ofNecrothesp (talk ·contribs ·blocks ·protections ·deletions ·page moves ·rights ·RfA) are restored, provided he enablestwo-factor authentication on his account.

ACN announcement
WP:ARBPOL08 April 2019motionPursuant 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:

Any arbitrator who repeatedly or grossly fails to meet the expectations outlined above may be suspended or removed by Committee resolution supported by two-thirds of all arbitrators excluding:
  1. The arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and;
  2. Any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known mediums of communication.

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-Pakistan04 April 2019motionSheriffIsInTown'stopic 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 editors19 March 2019motionRemedy 2.1 of theConduct 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 atWikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants.ACN announcement
Palestine-Israel articles14 March 2019motionTheGeneral 1RR prohibition of thePalestine-Israel articles arbitration case (t) (ev / t) (w / t) (pd / t) is amended to read:
Each editor is limited to one revert per page per 24 hours on any page that could be reasonably construed as being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Reverts made to enforce theGeneral Prohibition are exempt from the provisions of this motion. Also, thenormal exemptions apply. Editors who violate this restriction may be blocked by any uninvolved administrator, even on a first offense. This remedy may only be enforced on pages with the{{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.

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 education4 March 2019motionA motion proposing to rescind discretionary sanctions on Waldorf education was withdrawn.
Manning naming dispute andInteractions at GGTF22 February 2019motionRemedy 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 andMacedonia17 February 2019motionAtAmendment II inEastern Europe,Eastern Europe is replaced as text byEastern Europe or the Balkans.Remedy 3 inMacedonia is superseded by this amendment.ACN announcement
Crouch, Swale restrictions appeal10 February 2019motionCrouch, Swale is permitted to create new pages outside of mainspace such as talkpages and AfD pages.ACN announcement
Ferahgo the Assassin restrictions appeal31 January 2019motion
  • The restrictions on Ferahgo the Assassin's editing related to race and intelligence are lifted.
  • The restrictions on Ferahgo the Assassin's participation in dispute resolution are lifted.
  • The interaction ban between Ferahgo the Assassin and MathSci remains in force.
ACN announcement
Crouch, Swale restrictions appeal18 January 2019motionCrouch, 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 toArticles for Creation for review.ACN announcement
Lightbreather9 January 2019motionThe interaction ban betweenHell in a Bucket (talk ·contribs) andLightbreather (talk ·contribs) taken over inthe Lightbreather case is rescinded.ACN announcement

2018

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TopicDate enactedPermalink to motionOutcomeOther relevant links (including ACN)
Committeestandard procedures for enforcement13 December 2018MotionThe following text is added to the "Modifications by administrators" section of thestandard provision on appeals and modifications:
Administrators are free to modify sanctions placed by former administrators – that is, editors who do not have the administrator permission enabled (due to a temporary or permanent relinquishment or desysop) – without regard to the requirements of this section. If an administrator modifies a sanction placed by a former administrator, the administratorwho made the modification becomes the "enforcing administrator". If a former administrator regains the tools, the provisions of this section again apply to their unmodified enforcement actions.

For clarity, this change applies to all current uses of standard provision, including in closed cases.

ACN announcement
The Rambling Man13 December 2018MotionThe Arbitration Committee has resolved bymotion that theThe Rambling Man arbitration case be amended as follows:

In remedy 4, "The Rambling Man prohibited", the first paragraph is amended to read:

The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) is prohibited from posting speculation about the motivations of editors or reflections on theirgeneral competence.

and the third paragraph is amended to read:

If however, in the opinion of an uninvolved administrator, The Rambling Man does engage in prohibited conduct, he may be blocked for up to 48 hours. If, in the opinion of the enforcing administrator, a longer block, or other sanction, is warranted a request is to be filed atWP:ARCA.

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:

9)The Rambling Man istopic banned from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, theDid You Know? process. This topic ban does not apply toUser:The Rambling Man/ERRORS and its talk page or to articles linked from DYK hooks or captions (these may be at any stage of the DYK process).

The following provisions are added in the Enforcement section of the case:

1) Where an arbitration enforcement request to enforce a sanction imposed in this case against The Rambling Man has remained open for more than three days and there is no clear consensus among uninvolved administrators, the request is to be referred to the Arbitration Committee atWP:ARCA.
2) Appeals of any arbitration enforcement sanctions imposed on The Rambling Man that enforce a remedy in this case may only be directed to the Arbitration Committee atWP:ARCA. The Rambling Man may appeal by email to the Committee if he prefers. This provision overrides the appeals procedure in the standard provision above.
ACN announcement
Palestine-Israel articles21 November 2018MotionTheGeneral 1RR prohibition of thePalestine-Israel articles arbitration case (t) (ev / t) (w / t) (pd / t) is amended to read:
Each editor is limited to one revert per page per 24 hours on any page that could be reasonably construed as being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Reverts made to enforce theGeneral Prohibition are exempt from the provisions of this motion. Also, thenormal exemptions apply. Editors who violate this restriction may be blocked by any uninvolved administrator, even on a first offense.

Further, thePalestine-Israel articles arbitration case (t) (ev / t) (w / t) (pd / t) is amended to include the following remedies:

Editors cautioned
Editors are cautioned againstedit warring, even if their actions are not in violation of the general 1RR prohibition active in the Arab-Israeli conflict topic area. Instead of reverting, editors are encouraged to discuss their proposed changes on the article's talk page, especially when the edit in question has already been challenged or is likely to be challenged.
Administrators encouraged
Administrators enforcing arbitration remedies in this topic area are encouraged to make use of appropriate discretionary sanctions to prevent or end prolonged or low-speed edit wars, even when the general 1RR prohibition has not been violated by any involved editor.
ACN announcement
Committeestanding procedure on functionary permissions and inactivity30 September 2018MotionThestanding 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-wpOTRS queue; CheckUser requests throughWikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations, those stemming fromaccount 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 theArbitration Committee; or holders who have temporarily relinquished access, including CheckUsers or Oversighters who accept appointment to theOmbudsman Commission.

and:

Holders of the permissions are also expected to:

  • Remain active on the English Wikipedia unless they have previously notified the Arbitration Committee of a significant expected absence and its likely duration.
  • Consider temporarily relinquishing their permission(s) for planned prolonged periods of inactivity.
  • Reply within seven days to email communications from either the Audit Subcommittee or the Arbitration Committee about their use of the permissions.

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 OversightOTRS queues; participation on list discussions; activity atWikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations; responding toaccount 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 theArbitration 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 theOmbudsman Commission.

and:

Holders of the permissions are also expected to:

  • Remain active on the English Wikipedia unless they have previously notified the Arbitration Committee of a significant expected absence and its likely duration.
  • Consider temporarily relinquishing their permission(s) for planned prolonged periods of inactivity.
  • Reply within seven days to email communications from the Arbitration Committee about their use of the permissions.
ACN announcement
Winhunter6 September 2018MotionBecause Winhunter has been desysopped for inactivity,this case is closed pursuant to thepreviously 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 articles9 August 2018MotionThe"Philip Cross topic banned" remedy in theBLP issues on British politics articles case is modified to read as follows:
Philip Cross (talk ·contribs) is indefinitelytopic banned fromedits relating to post-1978 British politics, broadly construed. This restriction may be first appealed after six months have elapsed, and every six months thereafter. This sanction supersedes thecommunity sanction applied in May 2018.
ACN announcement
Discretionary sanctions procedure5 July 2018MotionThe following sentence is added to the end of the "Alerts" section ofWikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions: "Editors may not useautomated tools or bot accounts to issue alerts."
The Arbitration Committee is aware ofa 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 217 June 2018MotionThe Arbitration Committee clarifies thatWikipedia:Naming conventions (Macedonia) may be modified by anRfC 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 ofnaming conventions and ofdisambiguation, or which is inconsistent with the principles of theneutral point of view policy or thereliable sources guideline.ACN announcement
Clarification request: The Troubles8 June 2018MotionAll sanctions placed under remedy 3.2 ofThe Troubles prior to its replacement with remedy 5 are considered discretionary sanctions. Specifically, the1RR sanction affecting the topic area is considered a form of page restriction placed as a discretionary sanction, and theadditional awareness requirements regarding page restrictions apply.ACN announcement
Civility in infobox discussions8 May 2018MotionRemedy 1.1 of theCivility 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. discussion25 April 2018MotionJames J. Lambden andVolunteer Marek are now subject to an indefinitetwo-way interaction ban, broadly construed.ACN announcement
Misuse of Administrator Tools case request18 April 2018MotionThe 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 foredit-warring in support of their preferred version ofWikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Outreach/April 2018 ([5][6][7]). He is advised that future similar conduct may result in sanctions.ACN announcement
MapSGV topic ban7 April 2018MotionTopic ban liftedACN announcement
Catflap08 and Hijiri8818 February 2018MotionRemedy 5 (Hijiri88: 1RR) of theCatflap08 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 anarbitration enforcement action, should Hijiri88 fail to adhere to anynormal editorial process or expectations related toedit-warring ordisruptive 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
Doncram21 January 2018MotionRemedy 5 (SarekOfVulcan–Doncram interaction ban) of theDoncram 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 anarbitration 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 normalarbitration 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 sanctions15 January 2018MotionThePage restrictions section of thediscretionary sanctions procedure is modified to the following:

Any uninvolved administrator may impose on any page or set of pagesrelating 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 andproportionate for the smooth running of the project. The enforcing administrator mustlog page restrictions they place.

Best practice is toEnforcing administrators must add aneditnotice to restricted pageswhere appropriate, using the standard template ({{ds/editnotice}}),and should add a notice to the talk page of restricted pages.

Editors who ignore or breach page restrictions may besanctioned by any uninvolved administrator provided that, at the time the editor ignored or breached a page restriction:

  1. The editor wasaware of discretionary sanctions in the area of conflict, and
  2. There was an editnotice ({{ds/editnotice}}) on the restricted page which specified the 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.

TheAwareness section of thediscretionary 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:

  1. They were mentioned by name in the applicable Final Decision; or
  2. They have ever been sanctioned within the area of conflict (and at least one of such sanctions has not been successfully appealed); or
  3. In the last twelve months, the editor has given and/or received analert for the area of conflict; or
  4. In the last twelve months, the editor has participated in any process about the area of conflict atarbitration requests orarbitration enforcement; or
  5. In the last twelve months, the editor has successfully appealed all their own sanctions relating to the area of conflict.

There areadditional requirements in place when sanctioning editors for breaching page restrictions.

ACN announcement
Palestine-Israel articles4 January 2018MotionTheGeneral 1RR prohibition of thePalestine-Israel articles arbitration case (t) (ev / t) (w / t) (pd / t) is amended to read:
Each editor is limited to one revert per page per 24 hours on any page that could be reasonably construed as being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. If an edit is reverted by another editor, its original author may not restore it within 24 hours of the first revert made to their edit. Reverts made to enforce theGeneral Prohibition are exempt from the provisions of this motion. Also, thenormal exemptions apply. Editors who violate this restriction may be blocked by any uninvolved administrator, even on a first offense.
ACN announcement
Hijiri882 January 2018MotionRemedy 3 (Hijiri88: Topic ban (I)) of theCatflap08 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 anarbitration enforcement action, should Hijiri88 fail to adhere to anynormal 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

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TopicOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Crouch, Swale ban appeal26 December 201731 December 2017Crouch, Swale (talk ·contribs)'ssite ban is rescinded and the following indefinite restrictions are imposed:
  • one account restriction
  • topic ban from discussions on geographic naming conventions
  • prohibition onmoving or renaming pages (except within their own userspace)
  • prohibition on creating new pages, including creating articles on pages where one didn't previously exist (except within their own userspace and talk pages of existing pages in any namespace).

Thestandard 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 aRequest 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 issues31 October 201727 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 afait 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 forall 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 scrutineers24 November 201726 November 2017Temporary Checkuser rights are granted toMatiia,RadiX,Shanmugamp7, and (alternate if necessary)Mardetanha for the purpose of their acting as Scrutineers in the 2017 Arbitration Committee election.Motion
Sexology8 Nov 201725 Nov 2017Remedy 4.1 ("Discretionary sanctions") of theSexology case is rescinded. Any sanctions or other restrictions imposed under this remedy to date shall remain in force unaffected.motion
The Rambling Man prohibition amendment25 Jul 201718 Sep 2017Remedy 4 (The Rambling Man prohibited) of theThe Rambling Man arbitration case is modified as follows:
The Rambling Man (talk ·contribs) is prohibited from insulting and/or belittling other editors.

is amended to read

The Rambling Man (talk ·contribs) is prohibited from posting speculation about the motivations of editors or reflections on their general competence
Announcement
Soap unbanned19 Aug 17In 2015,Soap (talk ·contribs) wasdesysopped 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 successfulrequest for adminship.Announcement
ARBPIA "consensus" provision modified14 March 201718 May 2017Theconsensus required restriction in thePalestine-Israel articles case is modified to read as follows:
Editors are limited to one revert per page per day on any page that could be reasonably construed as being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. In addition, editors are required to obtain consensus through discussion before restoring a reverted edit.Each editor is limited to one revert per page per 24 hours on any page that could be reasonably construed as being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. If an edit is reverted by another editor, its original author may not restore it within 24 hours. Reverts made to enforce theGeneral Prohibition are exempt fromthe revert limitthe provisions of this motion. Also, thenormal exemptions apply. Editors who violate this restriction may be blockedwithout warning by any uninvolved administrator, even on a first offense.
Notification
Standardising arbitration enforcement procedures15 April 201721 April 2017The following sections are moved (word for word) from the Arbitration Committee'sdiscretionary sanctions procedure to the Committee'sprocedures page (under the "Enforcement" heading) and as suchapply 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 thediscretionary sanctions procedure is modified to reflect the current versionstandard provision for appeals and modifications, including changes made to it in future amendments (Template:Arbitration standard provisions may be used).

Notification
OccultZone and others15 April 201721 April 2017The indefinite siteban ofOccultZone (talk ·contribs) imposed inremedy 1 of the "OccultZone and others" arbitration case is rescinded with the following restrictions:
  • OccultZone's topic ban fromremedy 2 and one account restriction fromremedy 3 in the "OccultZone and others" case remain in effect.
  • OccultZone is indefinitely topic banned from filing, commenting in or discussingsockpuppet investigations. If OccultZone has a reasonable suspicion that a user may be engaging in sockpuppetry, they should raise the issue with thefunctionaries, an admin, or a sockpuppet investigations clerk, who can then file a sockpuppet investigation if, in their opinion, one is warranted.
  • OccultZone is indefinitely topic banned from making any edits related to, or editing any page aboutSouth Asian topics, broadly construed.
  • OccultZone is indefinitely subject to a1RR editing restriction.
  • OccultZone is indefinitely restricted from:
  • Raising any issue at more than one venue, whatever that venue is (with the exception of bringing a case or clarification/amendment request to ArbCom).
  • Raising any issue at a venue other than where it is being discussed.
For clarity, OccultZone is not restricted from:
  • Commenting in multiple venues if an issue is moved (by himself or others).
  • Commenting in multiple venues if a single issue has been raised in multiple places by other users.
  • Notifying users or pages of discussions in other venues.

These restrictions may be appealed to the Committee in no less than six months.

Notification
Jytdog21 February 2017The topic ban from "all matters related to COI editing" imposed onJytdog (talk ·contribs) as part of the August 2016unblock 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 capitalization11 February 2017Inremedy 4.2 of the 2012Article titles and capitalisation case,standard discretionary sanctions were authorizedfor all pages related to the English WikipediaManual of Style andarticle 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 individualmove 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.Notification
GamerGate8 February 2017Thetopic-ban placed onNorthBySouthBaranof in theGamerGate case is terminated.Discretionary sanctions remain authorized to address any user misconduct in the relevant topic-area.Notification
Ed Poor 26 February 2017Inremedy 1.1 of the 2006Ed 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
JustBerry6 February 2017JustBerry (talk ·contribs ·deleted contribs ·logs ·filter log ·block user ·block log) wasunblocked by theBan 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 toWP:SOCK#LEGIT andWP:BOTPOL.Notification
Yunshui25 January 2017Yunshui (talk ·contribs ·deleted contribs ·logs ·filter log ·block user ·block log), voluntarilyretired in November 2015. Their checkuser and oversight permissions wereremoved 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 intelligence21 January 2017Mathsci (talk ·contribs ·deleted contribs ·logs ·filter log ·block user ·block log) wasunbanned in April 2016 under the condition that herefrain 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

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TopicOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Palestine-Israel articles26 December 2016Thegeneral 1RR restriction in thePalestine-Israel articles case is modified to read as follows:
Editors are limited to one revert per page per day on any page that could be reasonably construed as being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. In addition, editors are required to obtain consensus through discussion before restoring a reverted edit. Reverts made to enforce theGeneral Prohibition are exempt from the revert limit. Also, thenormal exemptions apply. Editors who violate this restriction may be blocked without warning by any uninvolved administrator, even on a first offense.
Notification
Palestine-Israel articles 326 December 2016Remedy 2 (General Prohibition) is modified to read as follows:
All IP editors, accounts with fewer than 500 edits, and accounts with less than 30 days tenure are prohibited from editing any page that could be reasonably construed as being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This prohibition is preferably enforced by the use ofextended confirmed protection, but where that is not feasible, it may also be enforced by reverts, page protections, blocks, the use of pending changes, and appropriate edit filters.
The sole exceptions to this prohibition are:
  1. Editors who are not eligible to beextended-confirmed may use the Talk: namespace to post constructive comments and make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided they are not disruptive. Talk pages where disruption occurs may be managed by any of the above methods. This exception does not apply to other internal project discussions such as AfDs, WikiProjects, noticeboard discussions, etc.
  2. Editors who are not eligible to be extended-confirmed may not create new articles, but administrators may exercise discretion when deciding how to enforce this remedy on article creations. Deletion of new articles by editors who do not meet the criteria is permitted but not required.
Notification
Gun control21 December 2016North8000 (talk ·contribs ·deleted contribs ·logs ·filter log ·block user ·block log) wassite-banned in 2014 in theGun Control case. He was topic-banned from the gun control topic area in the same case. Prior to this, he had beentopic-banned from the subject of theTea Party movement in theTea Party case in 2013, and had agreed to aone-year voluntary restriction from thehomophobia article and its talk page in 2012.

North8000 is unbanned with the following restrictions:

  • His 2014 topic ban from gun control remains in force.
  • His 2013 topic ban from the Tea Party movement is broadened to encompass post-1932 American politics, with the scope defined by theAmerican politics discretionary sanctions introduced in the 2015American politics 2 case.
  • His 2012 restriction fromhomophobia is adopted by the committee as a topic ban.
  • He is restricted to one account.

These restrictions are to be enforced under the standardenforcement andappeals and modifications provisions and may be appealed to the committee after six months.

Notification
Austrian economics19 December 2016The discretionary sanctions on Austrian economics are rescinded.Notification
Darkfrog2412 December 2016Darkfrog24's block appeal is denied.Notification
12 December 2016Fæ's topic ban is suspended for six months.Notification
Ricky816825 October 2016For abuse of multiple accounts and failure to remain accountable,Ricky81682 is desysoped and may regain the tools via a successful request for adminship.Notification
GamerGate22 October 2016SinceZad68 (who imposed extended confirmed protection of Talk:Gamergate controversy as a discretionary sanction) is currently inactive, the discretionary sanction onTalk:Gamergate controversy (not the article) is lifted to allow the community to modify the protection level in accordance with theWikipedia:Protection policy.Notification
Doncram5 November 2016Point 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 request12 August 20161 September 2016Ferahgo the Assassin (talk ·contribs ·deleted contribs ·logs ·filter log ·block user ·block log) wastopic-banned from the race and intelligence topic area in October 2010,site-banned in May 2012, andunbanned with editing restrictions in March 2014.
  • The March 2014 requirement that Ferahgo is restricted to "editing articles about the palaeontology of birds and dinosaurs and editing any talk or process pages reasonably and directly associated with improving the quality of those articles" is rescinded. The other restrictions that accompanied the unban remain in force.
  • The 2010 topic ban from the race and intelligence topic, originally issued under discretionary sanctions, remains in force and is adopted by the arbitration committee. This topic ban may be appealed viaWP:ARCA.
  • Thetwo-way interaction ban between Ferahgo andMathsci (talk ·contribs ·deleted contribs ·logs ·filter log ·block user ·block log) remains in force.
Motion
GoodDay amendment request10 July 201611 August 2016Remedy 1.1 (GoodDay topic-banned from diacritics) in theGoodDay 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 users11 April 201615 May 2016Administrators are not permitted to remove theextendedconfirmed 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 theGamergate controversy article).

Enacted motion &Archived copy
Extended confirmed protection11 April 201615 May 2016On April 5, the rollout of the newextendedconfirmed user group began. This group is being automatically applied to accounts meetingboth 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 amendment10 April 201611 May 2016TheDoncram arbitration case is amended as follows:Motion
Oversight block appeals (Oversight-l)27 March 20164 May 2016Appeals of blocks that have been marked by an oversighter asoversight blocks should be sent to the oversight team via email (Oversight-l@lists.wikimedia.org) to be decided by the English Wikipedia oversighters, or to theArbitration Committee. Blocks may still be marked by the blocking oversighter as appealable only to the Arbitration Committee, perthe 2010 statement, in which case appeals must only be directed to the Arbitration Committee.Motion
Amendment to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Ottava Rima restrictions (Ottava unbanned9 November 2009, 22 July 201019 April 2016Following 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:
  • EditingLamia (poem), its talk page, and any future GA, FA, or peer review of this article
  • Drafting articles or edits to articles within his own userspace, which may be moved into the mainspace by other unrestricted editors
  • Editing his own user talk page, with the additional restriction that he may not use his talk page to discuss other editors

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 toRace and Intelligence case (Mathsci unbanned)N/A10 April 2016Following a successful appeal to the Committee theOctober 2013 amendment to theRace and intelligence case is rescinded andMathsci (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 theenforcement clauses of theRace and intelligence case.

Motion
Deskana's ActivityN/A17 February 2016In accordance with thestanding procedure on inactivity, the checkuser permissions ofDeskana (talk ·contribs) are removed. The committee thanks them for their service.Motion
Future Perfect at Sunrise case request15 January 201626 January 2016The 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 concerningFuture Perfect at Sunrise (talk ·contribs ·deleted contribs ·page moves ·block user ·block log) andThe Rambling Man (talk ·contribs ·deleted contribs ·page moves ·block user ·block log). Full case declined.Motion
Amendment request forgenetically modified organisms2 January 201619 January 2016TheDiscretionary 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 toreappoint Floquenbeam an Oversighter23 January 201626 January 2016Floquenbeam (talk ·contribs), whoresigned from the Arbitration Committee and voluntarily gave up the Oversight permission in July 2014, is reappointed anOversighter following a request to the Committee for the permission to be restored.Archived discussion

2015

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TopicOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Clarification request forGenetically modified organisms29 December 20156 January 2016DrChrissy'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 ofNadirali14 December 201523 December 2015Nadirali (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 ACE201517 November 201519 November 2015For the purpose of scrutineering the2015 Arbitration Committee elections, stewardsMardetanha,Shanmugamp7, andEinsbor,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 Sanctions13 September 201519 November 2015Every so often, it becomes reasonable to terminate sanctions that are no longer necessary,
  1. Remedy 1 of theLapsed Pacifist 2 case is rescinded;
  2. Remedy 2 of theMantanmoreland case is rescinded;
  3. Remedy 1 of theWaterboarding case is rescinded;
  4. Remedy 1 of theVivaldi case is rescinded;
  5. Nothing in this motion provides grounds for appeal of remedies or restrictions imposed while article probations for the foregoing cases were in force. Such appeals or requests to lift or modify such sanctions may be made under the same terms as any other appeal;
  6. In the event that disruptive editing resumes in any of these topic-areas, a request to consider reinstating discretionary sanctions in that topic-area may be made on the clarifications and amendments page.
Motion
Level I Desysop of Seemingly Compromised Accounts04 November 201504 November 2015Theseemingly compromised accountsUser:OhanaUnited andUser:Salvidrim! are temporarily desysoped in accordance withLevel I procedures for removing administrative tools.
Supporting: NativeForeigner, Roger Davies, Euryalus, DeltaQuad
Opposing: None
Abstaining: None
Motion
Overlap of sanctions30 October 2015
  1. Remedy 2 of theBluemarine case is rescinded. The discretionary sanctions authorised for theAmerican Politics 2 case and theEditing of Biographies of Living Persons case continue to apply in this topic area;
  2. Remedy 2.1 of theElection case is rescinded. The discretionary sanctions authorised for theAmerican Politics 2 case continue to apply in this topic area;
  3. Remedies 4 and 5 of theFree Republic case are rescinded. The discretionary sanctions authorised for theAmerican Politics 2 case continue to apply in this topic area;
  4. Remedy 1 of theNeuro-linguistic programming case is rescinded. The discretionary sanctions authorised for thePseudoscience case continue to apply in this topic area;
  5. Remedy 1.1 of theTea Party Movement case is rescinded. The discretionary sanctions authorised for theAmerican Politics 2 case continue to apply in this topic area;
  6. Nothing in this motion provides grounds for appeal of remedies or restrictions imposed while discretionary sanctions or article probations for the foregoing cases were in force. Such appeals or requests to lift or modify such sanctions may be made under the same terms as any other appeal.
Motion
Cirt and Jayen46619 October 201524 October 2015Notwithstanding other restrictions on his editing,Cirt (talk ·contribs) may edit the articleTypewriter in the Sky, its talk page, and pages related to apeer review,good article orfeatured article candidacy for the article. This exemption may be revoked by any uninvolved administrator as anarbitration 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 Norton14 September 201516 October 2015Richard 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 appointment30 September 20152 October 2015Philippe (talk ·contribs), who recently retired from the post of Director ofCommunity Advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation, is appointed as aCheckUser andOversighter. 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 Rocks13 September 201528 September 2015 
  1. Remedy 3 of theLiancourt Rocks case is rescinded.
  2. In its place,Standard Discretionary sanctions are authorised with immediate effect for all pages relating to theLiancourt Rocks;
  3. Nothing in this motion provides grounds for appeal of remedies or restrictions imposed while the article probation for the foregoing case was in force. Such appeals or requests to lift or modify such sanctions may be made under the same terms as any other appeal.
Motion
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Argentine History17 August 20151 September 2015Remedy 2 (MarshalN20 topic banned) of theArgentine 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 anarbitration enforcement action shouldMarshalN20 (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/Longevity30 August 2015Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related tolongevity, broadly construed.Motion
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes31 May 2015I) Remedy 3.2 of the Infoboxes case is suspended.

II) For a six-month periodGerda 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.

Motion
2015 CU/OS appointments1 February 201531 March 2015Appointed:Motions
Dreadstar desysop28 March 2015For conduct unbecoming an administrator, namely
  1. sending an insulting e-mail to an editor he had just sanctioned,
  2. edit warring on an article and thenprotecting his preferred version, and
  3. lifting an arbitration enforcement block out of process,

Dreadstar (talk ·contribs) is desysopped. He may regain the tools at any time via asuccessful request for adminship.

Motion
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Argentine History1 February 20154 February 2015Notwithstanding other restrictions on their editing,Cambalachero is permitted to edit all content on the articlesRaúl Alfonsín,Carlos Menem,Fernando de la Rúa,Adolfo Rodríguez Saá,Eduardo Duhalde,Néstor Kirchner,Cristina Fernández de Kirchner andPope 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 madeat the requests for clarification and amendment page. The administrator must log the revocation on theArgentine history case page, together with a rationale supported by diffs.Motion passed to amend case
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes20 December 201427 January 2015The Committee will conduct aReview focusing on matters broadly arising from theInfoboxes case. Evidence will be invited specific to the following point:

  1. Are the sanctions ofPigsonthewing in the infoboxes case fit for purpose or should they be revised?

Procedure: The Review will be a simplified form of a full case, the named party beingUser:Pigsonthewing. Any editor may give evidence providing their evidence is directly relevant to the numbered points above; is supported where appropriate with diffs; and complies with the usual evidence length requirements. The evidence phase lasts for ten days and will be followed by a decision on the substantive issues by motion. No workshop will be held, though relevant comments may be made on the /Review talk page.

Motion passed to create a case
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes20 December 201427 January 2015The Committee will conduct aReview focusing on matters broadly arising from theInfoboxes case. Evidence will be invited specific to the following point:
  1. Are the sanctions ofPigsonthewing in the infoboxes case fit for purpose or should they be revised?

Procedure: The Review will be a simplified form of a full case, the named party beingUser:Pigsonthewing. Any editor may give evidence providing their evidence is directly relevant to the numbered points above; is supported where appropriate with diffs; and complies with the usual evidence length requirements. The evidence phase lasts for ten days and will be followed by a decision on the substantive issues by motion. No workshop will be held, though relevant comments may be made on the /Review talk page.

Motion passed to create a case
Motion to establish a central log for discretionary sanctions and associated amendments17 January 201520 January 2015Establishment of a central log

A central log ("log") of all sanctions placed under thediscretionary 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

The "Establishment of a central log" text above is to be added to the foot of procedure page, with a heading of "Motion <date>", with the date being the date of enactment.

2. The "Authorisation" section is amended with the following addition:

"Where there is a conflict between any individual provision authorising standard discretionary sanctions for an area of conflict and any provision in thestandard discretionary sanctions procedure, the provision in the standard procedure will control."

3. The "Guidance for editors" section is amended with the following addition:

"The availability of discretionary sanctions is not intended to prevent free and candid discussion, but sanctions may be imposed if an editor severely or persistently disrupts discussion."

4. The "Alerts" subsection is amended with the following addition:

"An editor who has an unexpired alert in one area under discretionary sanctions may be sanctioned for edits in another separate but related topic, which is also under discretionary sanctions, provided the nature or the content of the edits – broadly but reasonably construed – in the two topics are similar."

5. The "Logging" subsection is amended with the following replacements:

Replace: "All sanctions and page restrictions must be logged on the pages specified for the purpose in theauthorising motion or decision."
With: "All sanctions and page restrictions must be logged on the central log, currently/Log."
Replace: "The log location may not be changed without the consent of the committee."
With: "The log location may not be changed without the explicit consent of the committee."
Motion passed atWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions
Arbitration motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ4 January 20157 January 2015The 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 withBot Approvals Group approved tasks, or an authorised trial of one."Motion

2014

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TopicOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Arbitration motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tea Party movement (Xenophrenic)2 December 20144 December 2014Remedy 7.1 ("Xenophrenic topic-banned") and Remedy 7.2 ("Xenophrenic interaction ban with Collect") of theTea Party movement decision are suspended. These remedies may be enforced under therelevant enforcement provision, but effective the passage of this motion they shall only be enforced for edits byXenophrenic (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 aconsensus 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 remedies24 November 201430 September 2014Following a request to amend several prior decisions to terminate discretionary sanctions provisions that may no longer be necessary,
  1. Remedy 14 of theAyn Rand case is rescinded;
  2. Remedy 5 of theMonty Hall problem case is rescinded;
  3. Remedy 1 of theLongevity case is rescinded;
  4. The discretionary sanctions authorised explicitly for theCold fusion 2 and theHomeopathy cases are rescinded. The discretionary sanctions authorised for thePseudoscience and"Fringe science" cases continue to apply. Additionally, Remedy 14 of thePseudoscience case is amended by replacing the word "articles" with the word "pages" forconsistency;
  5. Remedy 5 of theTree shaping case is rescinded;
  6. Remedy 10 of theGibraltar case is rescinded;
  7. Nothing in this motion provides grounds for appeal of remedies or restrictions imposed while discretionary sanctions for the foregoing cases were in force. Such appeals or requests to lift or modify such sanctions may be made under the same terms as any other appeal;
  8. In the event that disruptive editing resumes in any of these topic-areas, a request to consider reinstating discretionary sanctions in that topic-area may be made on theclarifications and amendments page.
  9. A record of topics for which discretionary sanctions have been authorised and subsequently terminated is to be established and maintained on thediscretionary sanctions main page.
Motion
Arbitration motion granting temporary local CheckUser permission to Arbitration Committee Election Scrutineers19 November 201423 September 2014For the purpose of scrutineering the2014 Arbitration Committee elections, stewardsUser:Matanya,User:Barras, andUser:Trijnstel, appointed asscrutineers, 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 sanctions1 October 201427 October 2014This 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 theMonty Hall problem case is amended to read as follows:

Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related to theMonty Hall problem, broadly interpreted.

3)Remedy 10 of theGibraltar case is amended to read as follows:

Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related toGibraltar and its history, people, and political status, broadly interpreted.

4) Clause (b) ofWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Falun_Gong#Motions is amended to read as follows:

Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related toFalun Gong, broadly interpreted.

Any existing sanctions and restrictions remain in force and are not affected by this motion.

Motion
Arbitration motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waldorf education12 September 201428 September 2014Remedies 1 and 1.1 in theWaldorf education case (Pete K banned/Pete K ban clarified) are stricken. In lieu of these remedies, the following restriction is enacted: Pete K istopic banned indefinitely from the subject ofWaldorf 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 regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al25 August 201427 August 2014The second sentence of remedy 1 of theGuanaco, 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 newrequest for adminship.

Motion
Arbitration motion regardingTea Party movement20 August 201424 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 regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Argentine History11 July 201414 July 2014

Notwithstanding the sanction imposed onMarshalN20 (talk ·contribs) inArgentine History, he may editUnited 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 regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abortion1 July 201412 July 2014

The indefinite topic-ban ofHaymaker (talk ·contribs) from the abortion-related pages is lifted.

Motion
Arbitration Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Audit Subcommittee2 July 20144 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 regardingWikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Audit Subcommittee2 July 20144 July 2014

Audit Subcommittee (AUSC) members are provided with theCheckUser andsuppression 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 thefunctionaries team. This is without regard to the presence of a backlog or time-sensitive situation.

Motion
Arbitration Motion regarding28 April 201416 May 2014

Notwithstanding the existing restrictions on his editing, 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 toFalun Gong 2 (User:Ohconfucius)29 April 201407 May 2014

The Committee resolves that remedy 2 (Ohconfucius topic-banned) in theFalun 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 provision02 May 201403 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 by sanctioned editors

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:

  1. ask the enforcing administrator to reconsider their original decision;
  2. request review at thearbitration enforcement noticeboard ("AE") or at theadministrators’ noticeboard ("AN"); and
  3. submit a request for amendment at"ARCA". If the editor is blocked, the appeal may be made by email throughSpecial:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee (or, if email access is revoked, toarbcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org).
Modifications by administrators

No administrator may modify a sanction placed by another administrator without:

  1. the explicit prior affirmative consent of the enforcing administrator; or
  2. prior affirmative agreement for the modification at (a) AE or (b) AN or (c) ARCA (see "Important notes" below).

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:

  1. For a request to succeed, either
(i) the clear and substantial consensus of (a) uninvolved administrators at AE or (b) uninvolved editors at AN or
(ii) a passing motion of arbitrators at ARCA
is required. If consensus at AE or AN is unclear, the status quo prevails.
  1. While asking the enforcing administrator and seeking reviews at AN or AE are not mandatory prior to seeking a decision from the committee, once the committee has reviewed a request, further substantive review at any forum is barred. The sole exception is editors under an active sanction who may still request an easing or removal of the sanction on the grounds that said sanction is no longer needed, but such requests may only be made once every six months, or whatever longer period the committee may specify.
  2. These provisions apply only to discretionary sanctions placed by administrators and to blocks placed by administrators to enforce arbitration case decisions. They do not apply to sanctions directly authorised by the committee, and enacted either by arbitrators or by arbitration clerks, or to special functionary blocks of whatever nature.
Motion: Appeals and modifications
Discretionary sanctions (2014) housekeeping provisions02 May 201403 May 2014That the housekeeping provisions be implemented with immediate effect

These housekeeping provisions were:

  1. Remedy 8A ofDisputed islands in East Asia is rescinded as it is no longer required.
  2. Motion 2 of theTrusilver motions are rescinded; they are superseded by thestandard appeals and modification provision below.
  3. The substantive content atWikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions is rescinded, and replaced with the new remedy above. The substantive content above is also to replace the"discretionary sanctions" committee procedure.
  4. Remedies 4 ("Administrators advised") and 5 (Administrators reminded") of theArbitration Enforcement sanction handling case are rescinded, and each replaced with a link to the new remedy above.
  5. Provisions relating tomandated external review authorised inMotion aboutThe Troubles of 08 September 2012 are rescinded. The Mandated external review page is deprecated and to be marked historic. The mandated external reviews already in place in respect of usersHumunculus,Ohconfucius, andCollipon are vacated.
  6. Provisions for special enforcement ofBiographies of living people (BLP) inFootnoted Quotes are rescinded and replaced by:

    "StandardWikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions are authorised for the area of conflict, namely any edit in anyarticle with biographical content relating to living or recently deceased people or any edit relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles of any page in any namespace"

    Theadministrator instructions page is deprecated and replaced with a redirect to the mainDiscretionary sanctions page.
  7. The standard enforcement provision adoptedby motion on 4 June 2012 is amended as follows:

    "Should any user subject to a restriction in this case violate that restriction, that user may be blocked, initially for up to one month, and then with blocks increasing in duration to a maximum of one year." and case pages/case templates are to be updated accordingly.

  8. On passing, the new standard appeal/modification provision is to be added to: (i) the "Appeals and modifications" section of the updated Discretionary sanctions procedure; and to be added/linked to on (ii) the applicable section of all past and current case pages; and (iii) the case template for future cases.
  9. All sanctions and restrictions remain in full force and are governed by the "Continuity" provisions of the new procedure.
Motion: DS (2014) housekeeping provisions
Discretionary sanctions (2014)02 May 201403 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 Farmbrough9 April 201421 April 2014

The following clarification now applies

In order to resolve the enforcement request referred to us, the committee resolves that:

  1. Rich Farmbrough (talk ·contribs) has violated his restriction against automated editing. That restriction clearly required he "make only completely manual edits" and hence the prohibition applies regardless of namespace.
  2. Accordingly, Rich Farmbrough is warned that the committee is likely to take a severe view of further violations, and may consider replacing his automation restriction with a site ban.
Motion 3


Ryulong17 February 201426 February 2014

The following sanction is vacated with immediate effect.


3) Should Ryulong be found to be seeking or requesting any administrative action on IRC against users with whom he is in dispute, he may be reported to ANI or the Arbitration Enforcement page.


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

Motion 2

Kevin GormanN/AN/AThe 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 GormanN/AN/AThe Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
  • By way of clarification, theformal warning issued byKevin Gorman was out of process and therefore has no effect. The provisions ofWP:BLPBAN will be reviewed by the Arbitration Committee and where necessary updated.
Motion
Increase of protection on article protected under WP:OFFICE action24 January 201428 January 2014Kww is admonished forknowinglymodifying a clearly designatedWikimedia 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 Egypt8 January 20149 January 2014Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized with immediate effect for all pages relating toAncient Egyptian race controversy and associated articles, broadly construed. This supersedes the existing article probation remedy enacted inWikipedia: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.

Motion

2013

[edit]
TopicOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Motion regarding activity levels for holders of both CU and OS tools30 November 201331 December 2013The 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 scrutineers30 November 20131 December 2013For the purpose of scrutineering the2013 Arbitration Committee elections, stewardsUser:Mathonius,User:Vituzzu,User:Matanya, andUser:Tegel, appointed asscrutineers, 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 toManning naming dispute21 October 201324 October 2013Finding 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 insoapboxing based on his personal view of the article subject's actions[12][13][14][15]; and needlessly personalised the dispute[16]."Motion
Amendment toRace and intelligence6 October 201313 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 toWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Scientology14 September 201319 September 2013The committee has decided to allow an appeal of the sanction imposed uponThe Devil's Advocate (talk ·contribs) on 9 July 2013 underScientology discretionary sanctions. Therefore, that sanction is vacated with immediate effect.motion
Arbitration motion regarding Mathsci14 September 201317 September 2013In May 2012 (during theRace and intelligence review), the committee prohibitedSightWatcher (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. InOctober 2012,The Devil's Advocate (talk ·contribs) andCla68 (talk ·contribs) were banned (by an administrator acting under discretionary sanctions) from interacting with Mathsci. InDecember 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 theRace and intelligence final decision.

motion
Netoholic and Locke Cole interaction ban10 September 201316 September 2013Theban on interaction betweenLocke Cole andNetoholic imposed inWikipedia: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 ban16 August 201318 August 20131) Cambalachero and Lecen are indefinitely prohibited frominteracting with, or commenting on, each other anywhere on Wikipedia (subject to theordinary exceptions).

2) MarshalN20 and Lecen are indefinitely prohibited frominteracting with, or commenting on, each other anywhere on Wikipedia (subject to theordinary 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 toarbitration enforcement, and then to the Arbitration Committee.

Motions
MarshalN207 August 201313 August 2013Not withstanding the sanction imposed onMarshalN20 (talk ·contribs) inArgentine History, he may editFalkland Islands, its talk page, and pages related to a featured article candidacy for the article. This exemption may be withdrawn byBasalisk (talk ·contribs) at any time, or by motion of the Arbitration Committee.Motion
Motion regarding Syrian civil war articles18 July 201321 July 2013In March 2013, an administratornotified the editors ofSyrian civil war and several associated pages that the topic area fell under the scope of{{Arab-Israeli Arbitration Enforcement}}, which provides for a blanketone revert per editor per article per day restriction as well asdiscretionary 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 toSyrian 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 toSyrian 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 atTalk:Syrian civil war/Log.

Motion
Motion regarding GoodDay16 April 201322 April 2013In remedy 2 ofWikipedia: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 rights10 March 201312 March 2013Based 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 appointees20 February 201311 March 2013Audit 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 inactivity20 February 201311 March 2013The Arbitration Committee confirms thecurrent 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 blocks5 March 20139 March 2013OnJuly 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 theblockingpolicy.

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 regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan 223 February 20138 March 2013The section entitled "Standard discretionary sanctions" in theArmenia-Azerbaijan 2 case is replaced with the following:
Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related to Armenia, Azerbaijan, or related ethnic conflicts, broadly interpreted.

Previous or existing sanctions, warnings, and enforcement actions are not affected by this motion.

Motion
Motion regarding withdrawn case requests6 February 20138 February 2013If the filing party of a request for an arbitration case withdraws said request, the request may be removed after 24 hours if:
  1. No arbitrator has voted to accept the case; or
  2. There arefour net votes to decline the case.

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 regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waldorf education30 January 201330 January 20131)Standard Discretionary sanctions are authorised with immediate effect for all pages relating toWaldorf education, broadly construed. This supersedes the existing Article Probation remedy set down inWaldorf education, remedy 1 and re-affirmed in theWaldorf 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 regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles10 January 201312 January 2013

1) On 27 December 2012, the Arbitration Committeeasked the community to hold a discussion concerning theJerusalem article. The committee also resolved to appoint three uninvolved, experienced editors to decide the result of thatrequest for comment (the "Closers").

  • In addition to the three Closers, the committee also appoints at this time a fourth editor as Moderator of the discussion.
  • The Moderator will be responsible for assisting the community as it sets up the discussion, supervising the discussion, and ensuring the discussion remains focussed and relevant.
  • To enable him to perform these duties, the Moderator may close sub-sections or sub-pages of the discussion pages, and when doing so may direct discussion towards other sections or points.
  • The three closers are responsible for determining the result of the community's discussion upon its conclusion.
  • The original motion in December included a clause authorising administrators, including the Moderator, to sanction editors for disrupting the process, and that clause remains in effect. The clause that the result of this structured discussion will be binding for three years also remains in effect.

We appoint the following three editors to close the discussion:

  1. Keilana (talk ·contribs)
  2. RegentsPark (talk ·contribs)
  3. Pgallert (talk ·contribs)

We appointMr. Stradivarius (talk ·contribs) as the discussion moderator.

Our sincerest thanks go to these four editors, for accepting these appointments and for assisting the community in conducting and closing this discussion. We suggest that this discussion be publicised at appropriate community venues, and we invite experienced, uninvolved editors to assist with creating the discussion pages.

Motion
Motion regardingUser:Hex4 January 20137 January 2013The Arbitration Committee has considered the request for arbitration concerningHex (talk ·contribs ·blocks ·protections ·deletions ·page moves ·rights ·RfA)'s block ofO'Dea (talk ·contribs). There is no evidence of a significant, recurring problem with Hex's use of his administrator permissions. However, Hex is:
(A) Reminded that he must obey the community's"involved administrators" policy;
(B) Admonished for blocking O'Dea when no block was appropriate; and
(C) Reminded that he must be fully responsive to valid criticism by the community of his actions.
Motion
Motion regardingRich Farmbrough1 January 20136 January 2013In theRich Farmbrough case, the revised Finding of Fact 8, enacted on28 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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TopicOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Motion regardingJerusalem16 December 201227 December 2012The community is asked to hold a discussion that will establish a definitive consensus on what will be included in the articleJerusalem (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 onreliable sourcing andneutral 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 inthis 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 regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Prem Rawat andWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Prem Rawat 215 December 201220 December 20121)Standard Discretionary sanctions are authorised with immediate effect for all pages relating toPrem Rawat, broadly construed; this supersedes the existingArticle 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 atArbitration Enforcement.

3) TheLogs of blocks, bans, and restrictions at the Prem Rawat 2 case page is to be merged into the original Prem Rawat log atWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Prem Rawat#Logs of blocks, bans, and restrictions, which is to be used for all future recording of warnings and sanctions.

Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience and related cases11 November 201215 November 2012Remedy 13 of thePseudoscience 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 underPseudoscience, rather than under previous decisions concerning sub-topics of pseudoscience, but previous or existing sanctions or enforcement actions are not affected by this motion.

Motion
Motion regardingIantresman25 October 20124 November 2012The topic ban placed againstIantresman (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 regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility enforcement16 October 201225 October 2012Remedy 4 ("Malleus Fatuorum topic banned") ofCivility 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.

Motion
Motion regarding Opening of Proceedings12 October 201221 October 2012A request will proceed to arbitration if it meets all of the following criteria:
  1. Its acceptance has been supported by either of (i)four net votes or (ii) an absolute majority of active, non-recused arbitrators;
  2. More than 24 hours have elapsed since the request came to satisfy the above provision; and
  3. More than 48 hours have elapsed since the request was filed.

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.

Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Sathya Sai Baba 220 August 201229 September 2012Remedy 1.1 of theSathya 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 regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence9 August 201224 September 2012All 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 regardingUser:GregJackP14 September 201224 September 2012The restriction imposed onGregJackP (talk ·contribs) in theClimate change case and the supplementary restriction relating to New Religious movements imposed by theBan Appeals Subcommittee on 17 March 2012 as a condition of unblocking are hereby lifted.Motion
Arbitration motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/The Troubles18 August 20128 September 2012British baronets are no longer underStandard discretionary sanctionsMotion
Motion: Mandated external review adopted andFalun Gong 2 amended17 August 20128 September 2012Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Mandated external review is officially adopted andWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Falun Gong 2 is updated to reflect that.Discussion and motions
Motion:User:EncycloPetey desysopped7 September 20128 September 2012For using his administrator tools whileinvolved (seeevidence), the administrator permissions ofUser:EncycloPetey are revoked. To regain administrator permissions, EncycloPetey must make a successfulRequest for Adminship (RfA).Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/India-Pakistan7 July 201229 July 2012Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related toIndia,Pakistan, andAfghanistan, broadly construedMotion
Motion to remove administrative tools from User:Carnildo1 July 20125 July 2012For exercising long term poor judgement in his use of administrative tools, including his recent block ofUser:Itsmejudith,User:Carnildo's administrative tools are removed. Carnildo may regain the administrative tools in the usual manner via a successfulRequest for Adminship.Motion
Amendment: Scientology (Lyncs)23 May 20128 June 2012The indefinite ban ofLyncs (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 motions27 May 20127 June 2012Significant or substantive modifications of theArbitration Committee's procedures shall be made by way of formal motions on the Committee'spublic motions page; shall be announced on theCommittee's noticeboard and theadministrator'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 enforcement31 May 20126 June 2012Long text of the motion can be found at link on rightMotion
Motion regarding standardized enforcement28 May 20124 June 2012Long text of the motion can be found at link on rightMotion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Speed of light16 May 20123 June 2012Topic-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 yearMotion
Motion regarding decision elements28 May 20122 June 2012Long text of the motion can be found at link on rightMotion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Scientology14 May 20121 June 2012The restriction imposed onPrioryman (talk ·contribs) by Remedy 17 of theScientology case ("ChrisO restricted") is hereby lifted.Motion
Motion regardingScientology sanctions30 May 20121 June 2012;Remedy 4 - Discretionary topic ban

Thisremedy 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.

Remedy 4.1 - Discretionary sanctions authorised

Standard discretionary sanctions are authorised with immediate effect for theScientology topic broadly construed. All warnings and sanctions shall be logged in theappropriate section of the main case page.

Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change30 April 201230 May 2012The restriction imposed onPrioryman (talk ·contribs) by Remedy 11.6 of theClimate change case ("ChrisO topic-banned") is hereby lifted.Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change14 May 201230 May 2012The restriction imposed onA Quest For Knowledge (talk ·contribs) by Remedy 18 of theClimate change case ("A Quest For Knowledge topic-banned") is hereby lifted.Motion
Arbitration motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Scientology14 May 201229 May 2012The restriction imposed onJayen466 (talk ·contribs) by Remedy 21.1 of theScientology case ("Jayen466 topic-banned from Rick Ross articles") is hereby lifted.Motion
Motion to consolidate evidence submission procedures27 May 201228 May 2012Submissions 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.

Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich Farmbrough20 May 201228 May 2012FoF 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 ofSmackBot,Helpful Pixie Bot).Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence/Review17 May 201226 May 2012That FoF 2.5 in theRace 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 cases3 April 201224 May 2012Users 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 regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Cirt and Jayen46613 April 20123 May 2012Notwithstanding other restrictions on his editing,Cirt is granted an exemption in order to edit the articleDan Savage bibliography, its talk page, a peer review for that article, and a featured list candidacy for the article. This exemption may be withdrawn byThe Rambling Man at anytime, or by further motion of the Arbitration Committee.Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Martinphi-ScienceApologist andWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience26 February 201228 March 2012The discretionary sanctions provision atWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Martinphi-ScienceApologist#Standard discretionary sanctions are moved to a new section underneathWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience#Discretionary sanctions. The annotation atPseudoscience that the older discretionary sanctions are superseded byMartinphi-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 atMartinphi-ScienceApologist are stricken through, with a note that they are "moved by motion toPseudoscience" 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.

Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abd-William M. Connolley26 February 201220 March 2012‎The caseWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abd-William M. Connolley is renamed toWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Cold fusion 2.Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Cold fusion is created as aredirect toWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Cold fusion, andWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Cold fusion 2 is created as a redirect toWikipedia: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 theAbd-William M. Connolley decision do not require to be updated. The rename of theAbd-William M. Connolley case toCold 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 regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Eastern Europe9 March 201220 March 2012The caseWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Digwuren is renamed toWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Eastern Europe. For the new title ofEastern Europe,WP:ARBEURO andWP:ARBEE are created asshortcuts. 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 theDigwuren decision do not require to be updated. The rename of theDigwuren case toEastern 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 regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles24 February 201210 March 2012The text inWP: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 tothe usual rules on edit warring." As identical text is used in an active sanction related toThe Troubles case, the same substitution of wording shall be made there.Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Racepacket8 February 201211 February 2012The Arbitration Committee has determined that, asUser:Racepacket has on two occasions on 4 February 2012 breached hisinteraction 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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TopicOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Climate change28 October 201117 November 2011The editing restriction described in remedy 16.1 ("Scjessey's voluntary editing restriction") of theClimate change decision is terminated, effective on the passage of this motion.Motion
Omnibus motion regarding past discretionary sanctions18 October 201127 October 2011To simplify enforcement of older sanctions that are, substantively,discretionary sanctions, the committee hereby amends and supersedes the remedies listed below with the following:
Discretionary Sanctions
The topic is placed underdiscretionary sanctions. Any uninvolved administrator may levy restrictions as anarbitration enforcement action on users editing in this topic area, after an initial warning.

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.

Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Climate change29 September 201126 October 2011Thetopic ban imposed onWilliam M. Connolley (talk ·contribs) in theClimate 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 anyliving 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) todiscretionary sanctions should he fail to do so.Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking5 August 20119 September 2011Remedies 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 votes9 August 201119 August 2011That 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 regardingUser:Gilabrand18 June 20118 August 2011The arbitration enforcement block placed onGilabrand (talk ·contribs) related to thePalestine-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 regardingUser:Δ8 July 201114 July 2011Pursuant to the provisions ofRemedy 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-bansΔ (formerly known asBetacommand) from making any edit enforcing thenon-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 theprovisional suspension of their community ban.Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list andWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Russavia-Biophys17 June 201105 July 2011The remedies of theEastern European mailing list andRussavia-Biophys cases are amended to permit bilateral interactions betweenUser:Russavia andUser:Miacek.Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case Nabla20 June 201127 June 2011The following motion has been enacted:
(A) The Arbitration Committee reaffirms its, and the community's, expectation that administrators will observe all applicable policies, avoid inappropriate edits, and behave with maturity and professionalism throughout their participation on Wikipedia. While administrators are not expected to be perfect, severe or repeated violations of policies and community norms may lead to appropriate sanctions, up to and including desysopping.
(B)Nabla's conduct in admittedly making several unproductive edits while editing as an IP has been subject to significant, and justified, criticism. The Arbitration Committee joins in disapproving of this behavior, but accepts Nabla's assurance that he will not repeat it in the future, even to express good-faith concerns or frustrations regarding aspects of the project.
(C) Nabla is aware from the ANI discussion and this request for arbitration that some editors' trust in his ability to serve as an effective administrator has been eroded, both because of his IP edits and because of his period of inactivity. If Nabla intends to resume active work as an administrator, he should first refamiliarize himself with all applicable policies, and we recommend that he focus initially on less controversial administrator tasks. To an extent, these recommendations apply to any administrator who returns after a long period of inactivity.
(D) Although not directly relevant to Nabla's situation, the Arbitration Committee is aware ofthe ongoing community discussion regarding inactive administrator accounts, and stands ready to play its part if necessary once consensus has been determined.
Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor 211 June 201124 June 2011The scope of the topic ban placed uponEd Poor (talk ·contribs) byKafziel (talk ·contribs ·blocks ·protections ·deletions ·page moves ·rights ·RfA) on 2009-12-10[19] as a result of enforcement of remedy 1.1 ofWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor 2 is amended to "any article related toCategory: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 regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria18 June 201121 June 2011Theediting restrictions placed onNishidani (talk ·contribs) in theWest 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 thePalestine-Israel articles case, remain the subject of discretionary sanctions; should he edit within this topic area, those discretionary sanctions continue to apply.motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Macedonia 23 June 201119 June 2011Remedy 25.3 ofWikipedia: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 thepolicies 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 regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Russavia-Biophys22 May 201119 June 2011The topic ban placed uponBiophys (talk ·contribs) inWikipedia: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 regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Jack Merridew ban review motion7 May 20114 June 2011The restriction on using multiple/alternate accounts onUser:Barong, formerly known asUser: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.

Motion
Motion regarding Hyphens and dashes5 May 201116 May 2011A 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:
  1. There is to be a moratorium on article title changes that are due to hyphen/endash exchange. The only edits allowed will be to create a redirect to theexisting article title until the resolution of the debate below.

    All discussions on the subject ofEn dashes in article titles discussion (interpreted broadly) are subject to civility and 1RR restrictions. Administrators are urged to be proactive in monitoring and assertive in keeping debate civil. Actions requiring clarification can be raised with the Committee onthe appropriate subpage.

  2. Interested parties are instructed to spend from now until 30 May 2011 determining the structure of a discussion on En dashes in article titles to obtain consensus. Note that this can be the continuation of a current discussion or commencement anew. From 30 May 2011, a period of six weeks is granted for the gathering of consensus on the issue. The discussion should be of sufficient structure to allow easy quantification of consensus rather than a large amount of poorly-framed debate. If after two months, a determination isn't realised, a case will be opened and conduct violations will be dealt with severely.
Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence5 April 201115 April 2011That the following replace the terms inRemedy 5.1:
Editors reminded and discretionary sanctions (amended)
5.2) Both experienced and new editors contributing to articles relating to the area of conflict (namely, the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour, broadly construed) are reminded that this is a highly contentious subject and are cautioned that to avoid disruption they must adhere strictly to fundamental Wikipedia policies, including but not limited to: maintaining aneutral point of view; avoidingundue weight; carefully citing disputed statements toreliable sources; and avoidingedit-warring andincivility.
To enforce the foregoing,Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for any editor making any edit relating to the area of conflict anywhere on Wikipedia.
Sanctions may not be imposed for edits made prior to the passing of this motion butwarnings may be given and should belogged appropriately.
All sanctions imposed under the original remedy shall continue in full force.
Motion
Motion regardingUser:Rodhullandemu26 February 201126 February 2011Rodhullandemu's administrator status is revoked. He may apply for adminship at a future date by the usual means to the community.Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking29 January 20118 February 2011Remedy 7.1 ofthe Date delinking case, which as originally written prohibitedLightmouse (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 thebot 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 regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking1 February 20118 February 2011Remedy 18 of theDate delinking case, which limitsOhconfucius (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 thebot approvals group."Motion
Motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list4 January 20113 February 2011The topic ban placed uponPiotrus (talk ·contribs) inWikipedia: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 byUser:Koavf30 November 201010 January 2011The restrictions placed uponKoavf (talk ·contribs) inWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Koavf and inUser: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 regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria14 December 20106 January 2011In view of his compliance withRemedy 11 of theWest Bank - Judea and Samaria case, theediting restrictions placed onJayjg (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 thePalestine-Israel articles case, remain the subject of discretionary sanctions; should he edit within this topic area, those discretionary sanctions continue to apply.Motion

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Case nameOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Motion regarding a case request aboutUser:YellowMonkey30 November 201024 December 2010The Arbitration Committee has considered therequest for arbitration (filed 30 November 2010) concerning administrator actions byYellowMonkey, which followed arequest 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 regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence29 November 201017 December 2010Remedy 6 ("Mathsci topic-banned by mutual consent") of theRace and Intelligence case is terminated, effective immediately.Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Speed of light17 November 201018 November 2010Brews ohare (talk ·contribs) is banned from Wikipedia for a period of one year.Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list21 September 201013 November 2010Remedy 3 ofWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list ("Piotrus topic banned") is replaced with the following:
Piotrus (talk ·contribs) is topic banned from articles about national, cultural, or ethnic disputes within Eastern Europe, their associated talk pages, and any process discussion about these topics until March 22, 2011 (the date on which the topic ban imposed in the original decision was to expire).
Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking Ohconfucius29 October 20109 November 2010Remedy #17 ("Ohconfucius automation") of theDate delinking case is terminated, effective immediately, andOhconfucius (talk ·contribs) is permitted to use automation subject to normal community guidelines.Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/PHG2 October 20108 November 2010The existingtopic ban imposed in the PHG arbitration onPer 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 regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list7 July 20105 September 2010Remedy 7 ofWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list "Martintg topic banned") is replaced with the following:
Martintg (talk ·contribs) is topic banned from articles about national, cultural, or ethnic disputes within Eastern Europe, their associated talk pages, and any process discussion about these topics, until December 22, 2010 (one year from the closing of the original case).
Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tothwolf5 August 20104 September 20101)Tothwolf (talk ·contribs ·logs),Miami33139 (talk ·contribs ·logs) andJBsupreme (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 theArbitration 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.
3)Remedy 2 (already updated once) is changed to "JBsupreme (talk ·contribs ·logs) 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, assumptions of bad faith,or disruptive to deletion discussions, JBsupreme may be blocked for the duration specified in the enforcement ruling below." The six months is reset to start from the day this motion passes.

Motion
Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment#Request to amend prior case: Date delinking11 July 20104 September 2010TheDate delinking case is supplemented as follows:

Nonwithstanding remedies #7.1 and #8,Lightmouse (talk ·contribs) is permitted to use hisLightbot (talk ·contribs) account for a single automation task authorized by theBot Approvals Group. "Automation" is to be interpreted broadly to refer to any automated or semi-automated tools whatsoever.

Motion
Motion regardingBrews ohare4 August 201022 August 2010Brews ohare (talk ·contribs) is topic banned from all physics-related pages, topics and discussions, broadly construed, for twelve months.Motion
Motion regardingUser:Δ (previously known as Betacommand)25 July 201031 July 2010TheArbitration Committee provisions for the unbanning of Betacommand are amended as follows:Betacommand (talk ·contribs), now editing asΔ (talk ·contribs), is authorized to operate a single secondary account,Δbot (talk ·contribs), only to perform automated tasks directly related to the clerking ofsockpuppet investigations only asspecified and authorized by theBot Approvals Group. Any other use of the bot, broadly interpreted, must be specifically authorized in advance by BAG and endorsed by ArbCom.Motion
Motion regardingEastern European mailing list28 June 201020 July 2010Decided on 20 July 2010:

Remedy 20 ofWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list ("Miacek topic banned") is lifted.

Motion
Arbitration motion regardingSpeed of light16 June 20107 July 2010Decided on 7 July 2010:

Amendment 4 toWikipedia: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").

Motion
Motion regardingEastern European mailing list21 June 20102 July 2010Decided on 2 July 2010:

Remedy 17 ofWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list ("Biruitorul topic banned") is lifted.

Motion
Arbitration motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tothwolf16 May 20102 July 2010Decided on 2 July 2010:

Remedy 2 ofWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tothwolf ("reJBsupreme (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.

Motion
Arbitration motion regardingPseudoscience15 June 20102 July 2010Decided on 2 July 2010:

The words "such asTime Cube" are struck from principle #15 ofWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience ("Obvious pseudoscience"). Finding of fact #9 ofWikipedia: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."

Motion
Motion regardingEastern European mailing list1 June 201021 June 2010Decided on 21 June 2010:

Remedy 10 ofWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list ("Radeksz topic banned") is rescinded.

Motion
Arbitration motion regardingA Nobody18 May 201019 May 2010Decided on 19 May 2010:

A Nobody (talk ·contribs) is banned indefinitely from Wikipedia. This ban will be lifted andWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/A Nobody opened at such time as A Nobody agrees to participate in that case.

Motion
Arbitration motion regardingEastern European mailing list15 April 20105 May 2010Decided on 5 May 2010:

Thecurrent editing restriction affectingPiotrus (talk ·contribs) is to be amended to allow Piotrus to raise issues and discuss improvements to articles otherwise under the ban on theWikipedia:WikiProject Poland talk page.

motion
Request for clarification: Tang Dynasty18 February 20104 May 2010Tenmei enters into a mentorship programme for 6 months. Tenmei reminded.clarification,motion
Request for clarification: ban ofOffliner (talk ·contribs)11 April 201013 April 2010Clarification on the reason for the ban requested and provided.requestposted notice
Motion regardingAltenmann10 April 201013 April 2010

Decided on 13 April 2010:

The administrator permissions ofAltenmann (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 ofWikipedia: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 througha request for adminship.

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Motions regardingPer Honor et Gloria16 February 201030 March 2010

Decided on 30 March 2010:

1) PHG's mentorship is renewed

For the next year:
  • Per Honor et Gloria (talk ·contribs) is required to use sources that are in English and widely available.
  • Per Honor et Gloria may also use sources in French that are widely available—if a special language mentorfluent in French is appointed. The special language mentors selected must be approved by the Arbitration Committee. Mentors shall ensure thatWikipedia's verifiability policy on foreign language sources is followed—that quality English sources and reliably-published translations will be used in preference to foreign language sources and original translations. When Per Honor et Gloria uses sources in languages other than English, he is required to notify his mentor of their use.
and
  • Per Honor et Gloria is required to use a mentor to assist with sourcing the articles that he edits. The mentors selected must be approved by the Arbitration Committee. In case of doubt raised by another user in respect of a source, citation, or translation provided by Per Honor et Gloria, the mentors' views shall be followed instead of those of Per Honor et Gloria.
Angusmclellan (talk ·contribs) is thanked by the committee for serving admirably as PHG's mentor, and it is hoped that he will continue to serve in that capacity.

2) PHG's topic ban is renewed

ArbCom renews thetopic ban from the PHG arbitration.Per Honor et Gloria (talk ·contribs) is prohibited from editing articles relating to the Mongol Empire, the Crusades, intersections between Crusader states and the Mongol Empire, and Hellenistic India—all broadly defined. This topic ban will last for a period of one year. He is permitted to make suggestions on talk pages, provided that he interacts with other editors in a civil fashion.
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Arbitration motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Speed of light23 March 201029 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 ofBrews 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, andHell in a Bucket are indefinitely restricted from advocacy for or commenting onBrews 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 regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/A Nobody14 March 201019 March 2010

Decided on 19 March 2010:

This case is accepted, but will not be opened unless and untilA 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 regardingDurova andShoemaker's Holiday9 March 201015 March 2010

Decided on 15 March 2010:

The Arbitration Committee notes and deplores the acrimonious nature of the dispute betweenShoemaker's Holiday andDurova, 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):

i) Shoemaker's Holiday shall neither communicate with nor comment upon either directly or indirectly Durova on any page in the English Wikipedia.
ii) Durova shall neither communicate with nor comment upon either directly or indirectly Shoemaker's Holiday on any page in the English Wikipedia.
iii) Both parties are expressly prohibited from responding in kind to perceived violations of sections (i) and (ii) above and should instead report the perceived violation to the Arbitration Committee by email.

b) Both parties may, within reason, comment within the same pages (for example, in theWikipedia: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 regardingTrusilver andArbitration Enforcement1 March 201015 March 2010

Decided on 15 March 2010:

1) The unblock ofUser:Brews ohare byUser: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 ofWP: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 newWP:RfA or through a request to the Arbitration Committee.

2) The Arbitration Committee modifies theRestriction 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:

(a) with the written authorization of the Committee, or
(b) following a clear, substantial, and active consensus of uninvolved editors at a community discussion noticeboard (such asWP:AN orWP:ANI). If consensus in such discussions is hard to judge or unclear, the parties should submit a request for clarification on theproper page.

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 regardingIreland article names17 February 20105 March 2010

Decided on 5 March 2010:

1) The Arbitration Committee notes that the conditions put forward by remedies during theIreland 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 ade facto consensus on the matter owing to the stability of theIreland manual of style and enjoins the community to avoid needlessly rehashing the disputes.

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Motions regardingHerostratus andViridae2 March 20105 March 2010

Decided on 5 March 2010:

1) Herostratus strongly admonished

For failing to adhere to the standard of decorum expected of administrators, and for unblocking himself in direct contravention of blocking policy, Herostratus is strongly admonished.

2) Viridae admonished

For blocking another administrator without full knowledge of the situation at hand, and without attempting to contact the administrator to obtain such knowledge, Viridae is admonished for the poor judgment exercised in this incident.
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Arbitration motion regardingEastern European mailing list28 January 201013 February 2010

Decided on 13 February 2010:

1) Topic ban narrowed (Radeksz)

The topic ban applied toRadeksz (talk ·contribs) is amended. Radeksz may edit articles inCategory:Poland related unreferenced BLP as of February 8, 2010, solely to add references and to make such incidental changes as may be necessary to bring the article into compliance with the sources used. In the event that any such edits become contentious, Radeksz is expected to cease involvement in the relevant article.

2) Topic ban narrowed (Martintg)

The topic ban applied toMartintg (talk ·contribs) is amended. Martintg may edit the articles listedhere solely to add references and to make such incidental changes as may be necessary to bring the article into compliance with the sources used. In the event that any such edits become contentious, Martintg is expected to cease involvement in the relevant article.
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Arbitration motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abd-William M. Connolley11 January 20102 February 2010

Decided on 2 February 2010:

1) Abd and William M. Connolley prohibited from interacting

Abd (talk ·contribs) andWilliam 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 regardingUser:Craigy14420 January 201030 January 2010

Decided on 30 January 2010:

Summary motion in lieu of a full case:

  1. Key principle:

    Administrators are trusted members of the community and are expected to lead by example and follow Wikipedia policies. Occasional mistakes are entirely compatible with this as administrators are not expected to be perfect though they are expected to learn from experience and from justified criticisms of their actions. However, consistently or egregiously poor judgment or sustained disruption of Wikipedia is incompatible with this trusted role and administrators who repeatedly engage in inappropriate activity may be desysopped by the Arbitration Committee.

  2. Summary of evidence:

    (i) Craigy144 has repeatedly posted text and images which do not fully comply with therelevant policies.

    (ii) Craigy144's actions have received much comment but he/she has failed to respond to it.

    (iii) Craigy144 has not so far responded to this Request for Arbitration nor provided an explanation for his/her conduct.

  3. Remedy:

    Craigy144 is temporarily desysopped until such time as he/she provides the committee with a satisfactory explanation of his/her conduct.

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Arbitration motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list23 January 201028 January 2010

Decided on 28 January 2010:

Malik Shabazz,Xavexgoem, andDurova are authorized to act as proxies forPiotrus by editing, at his direction, theLech Wałęsa article, its talk page, and any process pages directly related to its nomination for Good Article status.

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Arbitration motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list22 January 201028 January 2010

Decided on 28 January 2010:

1) Topic ban narrowed

The topic ban applied toRadeksz (talk ·contribs) is amended. Radeksz may edit the articles listedhere solely to add references and to make such incidental changes as may be necessary to bring the article into compliance with the sources used. In the event that any such edits become contentious, Radeksz is expected to cease involvement in the relevant article.

2) Tagging and categorizing of unreferenced Poland-related BLPs allowed

The topic ban applied toRadeksz (talk ·contribs) is amended. Radeksz may create a category for unreferenced Polish-related biographies of living persons, tag articles for inclusion in that category, and announce the category's existence atWikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland.
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Motion regardingWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Speed of light13 January 201026 January 2010

Decided on 19 January 2010:

1) Exception to topic ban

Brews ohare (talk ·contribs) is permitted to participate infeatured 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'sfeatured article candidacies. This shall constitute an exception to the topic ban imposed on him (remedy#4.2).

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Motion regarding BLP deletions22 January 201023 January 2010

Decided on 20 January 2010:The Committee has examined this matter. In light of the following considerations:

  • That the core principles of the policy on biographies of living people—in particular, neutrality and verifiability—have been set forth by the Wikimedia Foundation as a mandate for all projects;
  • That the policy on biographies of living people, and this Committee's ruling in theBadlydrawnjeff case, call for the removal of poorly sourced and controversial content, and places the burden of demonstrating compliance on those who wish to see the content included;
  • That unsourced biographies of living people may contain seemingly innocuous statements which are actually damaging, but there is no way to determine whether they do without providing sources;
  • That Wikipedia, through the founding principle of "Ignore All Rules", has traditionally given administrators wide discretion to enforce policies and principles using their own best judgment; and
  • That administrators have been instructed to aggressively enforce the policy on biographies of living people.

The Committee has determined that:

  • The deletions carried out by Rdm2376, Scott MacDonald, and various other administrators are a reasonable exercise of administrative discretion to enforce the policy on biographies of living people.
  • The administrators who carried out these actions are commended for their efforts to enforce policy and uphold the quality of the encyclopedia, but are urged to conduct future activities in a less chaotic manner.
  • The administrators who interfered with these actions are reminded that the enforcement of the policy on biographies of living people takes precedence over mere procedural concerns.

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 regardingWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Falun Gong14 January 201019 January 2010

Decided on 19 January 2010:

Imposition of discretionary sanctions

TheFalun Gong decision is modified as follows:
(a) Thearticle probation clause (remedy #1) is rescinded.
(b) Standard discretionary sanctions (Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions) are authorized for "Falun Gong" and all closely related articles.
This modification does not affect any actions previously taken under the article probation clause; these actions shall remain in force.
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2009

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GiacomoReturned21 December 200923 December 2009

Decided on 23 December 2009 :

This request for a case is declined. The following note is to be written into the record:

  1. the related Audit Subcommittee report is endorsed;
  2. the original events have already generated a disproportionate degree of drama;
  3. the interests of the project are best served by all concerned completelydisengaging.
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Motion to amendUser:Jack Merridew's 2008 unban motion11 December 200914 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 theprevious motion with the following conditions:

  1. User:Jack Merridew agrees to edit from one account only "Jack Merridew" on all WMF wikis with the exception of an additionalbot account approved through the regular process, and agrees to not edit using open proxies.
  2. User:Jack Merridew is to seek out advisers to assist him in transitioning from a formal mentorship to unrestricted editing.
  3. User:Jack Merridew agrees that the same as any other editor, he is to follow Wikipedia policy and guidelines, and follow dispute resolution processes to resolve editing conflicts with the understanding that misconduct could result in blocks or Community editing restrictions.
  4. User:Jack Merridew will note his agreement with the terms of this motion on this page.
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Motions to amendWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/ADHD20 October 20098 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 amendWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking12 October 200921 October 2009

Decided on 21 October 2009 :

Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll,Wikipedia talk:Full-date unlinking bot#RFC, andWikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Full-date unlinking bot indicate thatFull-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 theBot 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 accounts1 October 200911 October 2009

Decided on 11 October 2009 :

In response to acase request submitted byUser:Jehochman the committee decided toreject the case and instead deal with the matter by motion.

Motion 1: GlassCobra
GlassCobra (talk ·contribs) nominatedLaw (talk ·contribs) foradminship. Law was an undisclosed account of previously 9-month blocked and desysopped editorThe undertow (talk ·contribs), and GlassCobra made his nomination while aware of that fact and without disclosing it. GlassCobra has since agreed that this was a breach of trust incompatible with his holding the position of anArbCom clerkand has resigned from that post at the Committee's request. GlassCobra has apologized, pledged not to repeat such an error, and is willing to accept a sanction.

Motion 2: GlassCobra admonished
GlassCobra is strongly admonished for having knowingly promoted the request for adminship of an editor he knew was using an undisclosed alternate account. He was aware that knowledge of the former account's history would materially affect the request, and displayed poor judgment by failing to disclose that information along with his support.

Motion 3: GlassCobra desysopped
GlassCobra is desysopped for having knowingly promoted the request for adminship of an editor he knew was using an undisclosed alternate account. He was aware that knowledge of the former account's history would materially affect the request, and breached the community's trust by failing to disclose that information along with his support. Adminship may be regained by request to the arbitration committee or via the usual means.

Motion 4: Jayron32 admonished
Jayron32 (talk ·contribs) is strongly admonished for having knowingly promoted the request for adminship of an editor he knew was using an undisclosed alternate account. He was aware that knowledge of the former account's history would materially affect the request, and displayed poor judgment by failing to disclose that information along with his support.

Motion 5: Jennavecia admonished
Jennavecia (talk ·contribs) is strongly admonished for having knowingly promoted the request for adminship of an editor she knew was using an undisclosed alternate account. She was aware that knowledge of the former account's history would materially affect the request, and displayed poor judgment by failing to disclose that information along with her support.

Motion 6: Jennavecia's resignation
Jennavecia resigned her status as an administrator on October 9, 2009, while this matter was pending. Per normal practice regarding resignation under controversial circumstances, she may apply atrequests for adminship or to the Arbitration Committee for the restoration of her administrator status at any time.

Motion 7: Administrators reminded and encouraged
Administrators are reminded that while they have no obligation to enforce any particular rule, they do have an obligation to refrain from violating or assisting in the violation of community or ArbCom imposed sanctions, as with any other editor. Administrators who choose not to address block evasion themselves by blocking the new account, are strongly encouraged to notify Arbcom or checkusers of apparent ban or block evasion when they become aware of it. It is in the best interests of the project and the user(s) involved to address these situations early.

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With respect to User:Law and User:The undertow30 September 200911 October 2009

Decided on 11 October 2009 :

The Arbitration Committee has been informed thatLaw (talk ·contribs) is an alternate account ofThe 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 theUser:Law account was created,User:The undertow was subject to an Arbitration Committee block.

General motion
The Arbitration Committee notes the resignation of administrator tools byLaw, and further notes that this resignation is under controversial circumstances. The user is restricted to one account,The undertow. He is required to notify the Arbitration Committee in advance should he wish to change usernames or create a new account, in accordance with Arbitration Committee enforcement procedures initiated in June 2009.[22]

Motion 1 - The undertow is banned 6 months:
The undertow is banned from wikipedia for six months.

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Date delinking19 July 200917 August 2009

Decided on 17 August 2009 :

Having considered all the requests for amendment and requests for clarification submitted following the decision inWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking, the Arbitration Committee decides as follows:

(1) All remedies in the decision providing that a specified user is topic-banned from editing or discussing "style and editing guidelines" (or similar wording) are modified by replacing these words with the words "style and editing guidelines relating to the linking or unlinking of dates";
(2) All remedies in the decision providing that a specified user is "prohibited from reversion of changes which are principally stylistic, except where all style elements are prescribed in the applicable style guideline" are modified by replacing these words with the words "prohibited from reverting the linking or unlinking of dates";
(3) All editors whose restrictions are being narrowed are reminded to abide by all applicable policies and guidelines in their editing, so that further controversies such as the one that led to the arbitration case will not arise, and any disagreements concerning style guidelines can be addressed in a civil and efficient fashion;
(4) Any party who believes theDate delinking decision should be further amended may file a new request for amendment. To allow time to evaluate the effect of the amendments already made, editors are asked to wait at least 30 days after this motion is passed before submitting any further amendment requests.
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Everyking 322 July 200915 August 2009

Decided on 15 August 2009 :Having considered the request to lift the remaining restriction (remedy X) inthe 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 Man13 August 200914 August 2009

Decided on 14 August 2009:

The Arbitration Committee:

  1. Finds that the circumstances of The Rambling Man's resignation during theDate delinking case do not preclude his restoration to bureaucrat status by request, in the discretion of the bureaucrats, and that a new request for bureaucratship is not required.
  2. Encourages any users concerned that the policies and procedures governing restoration of administrator and bureaucrat privileges following a resignation may be unfair or unclear to convene a community discussion on an appropriate policy page and to seek to develop a community-written policy on these matters.
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Jimbo Wales - Bishonen20 July 20095 August 2009

Decided on 5 August 2009 :

  • 1.1) On 21 May, auseradded the{{retired}} template to the userpage ofanother user. An administrator,Bishonen,reverted the addition with the edit summary "Rm 'retired' tag, which is none of [your] business". The user thenstated on Bishonen's talk page that "You do not decide what is and what is not my business. Wikipedia is everyone's business..." to which Bishonenreplied with "Yes, I do, you little shit. Don't interfere with [another user's] page. Now get lost. Shoo!" The user initiateda discussion about the placement of the tag and Bishonen's comment at the administrators' incidents noticeboard (during which Bishonen made several more condescending remarks towards the user), and as a result of this discussionJimbo Walesblocked Bishonen for three hours.
  • 1.2) Although people do not "own" their user pages, editors should avoid – withcertain well-established exceptions (of which adding retirement templates is not one) – making substantial changes to other people's user pages without their consent. The committee notes the user subsequentlyapologised for his edit.
  • 1.3) Bishonen's response to the user was grossly uncivil. Her subsequent comments (on the noticeboard and on her talk page) were condescending and unrepentant. While, in this context, a block may be justified on civility grounds, its delayed timing and short duration - andprior interaction between the blocking and blocked editors - made it controversial. Additionally, the block was placed some time after Bishonen had finished posting, at a time when no ongoing conduct was prevented by the block.
  • 1.4) Jimbo Wales did not notify Bishonen immediately of the block, as is required byblocking policy, and it was not untilhalf an hour afterannouncing it at the incidents noticeboard that he did so. In his announcement of the block on the incidents noticeboard, Jimbo Walesstated "This all seems sadly unbecoming to me, and a direct consequence of our having been too tolerant, for too long, of toxic personalities". Although the use of this latter phrase was laterclarified as intending to refer to incivility in general, the phrasing was careless and has been interpreted, reasonably, by some editors as referring to Bishonen.
  • 1.5) The Committee acknowledges (i) Bishonen'srecognition that "The way I spoke to [the user] was wrong, especially for an admin" and (ii) Jimbo Wales'permanent abdication of the use of the blocking tool. In light of the foregoing, the committee need take no further action at this time.
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Aitias1 August 20094 August 2009

Decided on 4 August 2009 :

  • The administrative permissions ofAitias (talk ·contribs · former admin:blocks ·protections ·deletions ·rights ·meta ·local rights) are removed for disruptive and inappropriate conduct including conduct involving his administrative duties. (Please note that Aitias resigned his tools under a cloud after these motions were passed but prior to their enactment, however this motion and the subsequent note were explicitly requested by the Committee to still be enacted and published.)
  • Aitias may seek to regain adminship viaWP:RFA or by application to the Arbitration Committee.
  • Aitias is restricted to one account and is required to comply with the applicable renaming procedures for restricted users, viewablehere, should he rename.
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Geogre29 July 20091 August 2009

Decided on 1 August 2009 :

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Geogre23 July 200929 July 2009

Decided on 29 July 2009 :

  • Utgard Loki is indefinitely blocked. Geogre is indefinitely prohibited from maintaining any other alternate account without disclosing it publicly. Geogre is strongly admonished for sockpuppeting and his actions related thereto. Geogre is desysopped and may regain adminship via the usual means.
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Everyking desysopping appeal17 June 200918 July 2009

Decided on 18 July 2009 :

  • The Arbitration Committee will not undo their desysopping of Everyking, but recommend he pursue reconfirmation through RfA.
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Motion regardingGolan Heights01 July 200916 July 2009

Decided on 16 July 2009 :

  • The arbitration committee advises that one or more neutral admins chair a new and structured Request for Comment on the disputed naming guidelines on the Golan Heights within a two month time-frame.
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User:Coffee resyop request01 July 200903 July 2009

Decided on 03 July 2009 :

  • Coffee's administrator privileges are restored, effective immediately. He is reminded to abide by all policies and guidelines governing the conduct of administrators.
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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria25 May 200928 May 2009

Decided on 28 May 2009:

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Vintagekits/Kittybrewster/BrownHairedGirl5 May 200913 May 2009

Decided on 13 May 2009 :

  • The community enacted topic ban onuser:Vintagekits anduser:Kittybrewster is recognized and confirmed. Kittybrewster is admonished to respect community and administrator decisions, including the imposition of sanctions, and directed to utilize the standard channels of appeal and review in cases where he disagrees. Disregard for sanctions, whether imposed by an administrator, the community, or the Arbitration Committee, is grounds for the imposition of escalating blocks and/or further sanctions. Vintagekits and Kittbrewster are indefinitely restricted from moving pages relating to Baronets and Knights, broadly interpreted. They are both restricted from nominating articles created by the other for deletion and more generally warned from unnecessarily interacting with each other, especially where it is likely to be perceived as baiting, trolling, or another form of harassment.user:BrownHairedGirl is admonished not to use administrative tools to further her own position in a dispute. BrownHairedGirl is prohibited indefinitely from taking any administrative action against or in connection with Vintagekits.
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User:EddieSegoura ban appeal17 April 200922 April 2009

Decided on 22 April 2009 :

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User:Mitchazenia05 April 200908 April 2009

Passed on 08 April 09 :

  • user:Mitchazenia may regain his adminship via RFA, request to the arbitration committee, or request to a bureaucrat.
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User:Aitias15 March 200922 March 2009

Passed on 18 Mar 09 :

  • (1) This request for arbitration to be temporarily suspended for up to 72 hours to allow Aitias to officially advise the Committee during this time whether he intends to continue as an administrator. Should Aitias confirm that he will not resign as an administrator, or fail to respond within 72 hours, then the arbitration case will be opened unless otherwise directed by the committee.

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 :

  • (2) In order to avoid a ruling without the participation of the main party to the case, this request for arbitration is suspended until Aitias returns to editing. After this motion passes the Committee will invoke an immediate temporary suspension of his adminship. When Aitias returns to editing, he may contact the Committee and request the return of his adminship, which would trigger an additional ruling by the Committee about this current request for arbitration; or as an alternative, he may submit an RFA on his return to editing in lieu of a case.
  • (3) The suspension of Aitias's adminship becomes a permanent desysop if he doesn't return within 6 months. Thereafter, Aitias may request adminship again through an RfA only.
  • (4) Aitias is instructed to edit Wikipedia English with only the User:Aitias account until the issues in this dispute are resolved.
Archive
User:Bishzilla13 January 200821 December 2008Motion: 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:Hemanshu31 December 200803 January 2009Motion: 1) As evidenced byWikipedia: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. ThereforeHemanshu 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). SeeWikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Hemanshu and the checkuser concerns noted inthis announcement.archive diff.

2008

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Case nameOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
User:Moreschi16 December 200820 December 2008Motion: 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.
motions
Peter Damian restrictions5 December 200817 December 2008Motion: editing restrictions liftedarchive diff
Jack Merridew ban review motion16 November 20089 December 2008Motion: indef ban lifted with editing restrictions.WP:RFAR/Jack Merridew ban review motion
Motion onTobias Conradi case8 November 200829 November 2008Motions: 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 2008November 27 2008Motions:
  1. (1)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[..] passed 7-1
  2. (3A)user:SlimVirgin is desysopped for a period of six months passed 6-1 (1 abstention)
  3. (4)no enforcement action relating to Giano's civility parole shall be taken without the explicit written agreement of the Committee passed 7-0 (1 abstension)
archived subpage
Request for clarification onediting arbitration policySeptember 28 2008October 15 2008Question about arbitration policy. No motion, but discussion did appear to move toWikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/Policy Changes, and then subsequently toWikipedia:Arbitration policy proposed updating.archive diff
Request for clarification ontopic bansSeptember 23 2008September 27 2008Question of best place for a topic ban discussion resolved by making a redirect.archive diff
Request for arbitration onUnapproved admin botsSeptember 17 2008September 25 2008RFAR was declined but a motion resulted that recapped issues in the case, encouraged the community to continue discussing the issue and admonishedUser:Prodego for his block ofUser:Misza13. Due to its length, the full closed motion is onthis talk page.archive diff
Motion in E104421-Tajik12 September 200813 September 20081) Remedy 1 inE104421-Tajik isrescinded terminated.

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 atWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/E104421-Tajik#Log of blocks, bans, and restrictions.

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Request for clarification on RFA options forUser:Coffee andUser:PeterSymondsAugust 31 2008September 1 2008motion passed 7-0, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Coffee andUser:PeterSymonds, having resigned their administrator status while under scrutiny when their accounts were compromised, may regain their status either through the usual RFA process, or by application to ArbCom, at each editor's own discretion.

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Steve Crossin, Chet B Long, PeterSymonds, and inappropriate account sharingAugust 23 2008August 30 2008motion rejected, Chet and Peter desyssoped, Steve taking a breakarchive diff
User:Can't sleep, clown will eat meJuly 18 2008July 18 2008Desysop (untilCan't sleep contacts arbcom)perm rfar link,meta request fulfilled

2007

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Case nameOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Lyndon LaRouche17 October 200727 October 2007The findings of fact of the original decisionWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche/Proposed decision, closed in September 2004, referred to two problematic behaviours:
  • a pattern of adding original material, not an editor's own, but that of Lyndon LaRouche, to Wikipedia articles,
  • a pattern of political advocacy and propaganda advancing the viewpoints of Lyndon LaRouche and his political movement.

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 ofWikipedia: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 Hewitt13 October 200716 October 2007
  1. The ban on Carl Hewitt's autobiographical editing was not time-limited and still applies.
  2. The scope of the ban should include Hewitt's current research areas, such as concurrency, and all promotion of the value of the work of his past students such as William Clinger, work on the actor model, logic programming, and accounts of the development of major concepts of theoretical computer science. This is in addition to areas already ruled off-limits.
  3. Given the scale of apparent evasions of the ruling during 2007, by the use of large numbers of IP numbers from the West Coast of the USA, semi-protection of affected articles may be applied for periods of up to one month, and to their Talk pages in cases of overbearing comments.
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Instantnood 330 July 20076 September 2007I move that the restrictions, now over a year old, from theWikipedia: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-Zero00008 June 200710 June 2007Any future use of administrative tools byZero0000in 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 toZeq.Permalink to motion
Waldorf education2 June 20076 June 2007Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Waldorf_education#Pete_K_banned applies to user pages with respect to content which relates toWaldorf education,PLANS,Rudolf Steiner, orAnthroposophy. Based on[23],[24],[25], and[26].Permalink to motion
Tony Sidaway28 April 20077 May 2007Crotalus 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
Highways31 March 20073 April 2007User:JohnnyBGood has requested the same relief from probation as granted toUser:Rschen7754 andUser:PHenry. I am inclined to grant it. I am not inclined to extend such relief toUser: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
Highways16 March 200726 March 2007Rschen7754 (talk ·contribs) andPHenry (talk ·contribs) have appealed their continued probation in theHighways case. I believe that their continued probation is not necessary and move to end it forthwith.Permalink to motion

2006

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Case nameOpenedClosedOutcomeRelevant links
Ulritz17 November 200618 November 2006The anonymous editor who edits from the 194.9.5.0/24 range and was also a part toWikipedia: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
Irishpunktom20 September 200622 September 2006The article ban (remedy 1) forDbiv (talk ·contribs) andIrishpunktom (talk ·contribs) fromPeter Tatchell is lifted, and replaced withProbation 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 onWP: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 atWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Irishpunktom#Log of blocks and bans.Irishpunktom: Dbiv
Eternal Equinox10 September 200617 September 2006Eternal 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, preferablyEternal 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
Freestylefrappe10 September 200612 September 2006Since being desysopped in hisarbitration case, Freestylefrappe has had a number of different accounts, includingTchadienne (talk ·contribs),KI (talk ·contribs),Republitarian (talk ·contribs), andYa 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
Aucaman28 August 200611 September 2006Since being placed on Probation for edit warring in theAucaman 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 onKhoikhoi (talk ·contribs) be lifted so that he is no longer under any Arbitration Committee restrictions.

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Zeq20 July 200618 August 2006Motion to ban Zeq for a week for creating an attack article regardingUser:Homeontherange (article has been deleted) diff will be available to Arbitration Committee members.Permalink to motion
Everyking14 July 200627 July 2006
  1. Everyking is banned for two weeks for recent offenses
  2. Everyking's current prohibitions (his ban from editing the ANI, and from commenting on other admin's actions except for their talk pages, RFC, and RFA) - set to expire in November - are extendedindefinitely for one year, until November 2007.
  3. Everyking is placed on standard probation for all pop music articles - any admin may ban him from any/all of them for any misbehavior on his part
  4. Should EK harass other admins over their non-editorial actions, any admin may block him for up to two weeks per incident, escalating to one year per incident after the fifth one.
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Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al28 April 20069 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 restricted to one user account

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 230 April 20065 May 2006Despite 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 atWikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive91#HK_enforcement. Accordingly, I propose thatWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche 2 be modified to include the following remedy:

Herschelkrustofsky banned

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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Rajput17 April 200627 April 2006Since 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 atWikipedia:Requests_for_CheckUser#Rajput_case. I recommend a general ban.

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rajput is modified to include the following remedy:

DPSingh banned

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 221 April 200625 April 2006Since his second Arbitration case, the personal attack probation againstXed (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:
Xed placed on indefinite personal attack parole

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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Lightbringer2 April 200610 April 2006Wikipedia: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 byCategory:Wikipedia:Suspected sockpuppets of Lightbringer andWikipedia: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 toLightbringer (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 usernameUser:LightBringer is completely unrelated to this motion and the associated case.

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Instantnood 28 January 200628 January 2006Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Instantnood_2#Instantnood_placed_on_probation is modified to:

Instantnood (talk ·contribs) is placed onWikipedia: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 onWikipedia: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.

Ciz23 December 200527 January 2006Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Ciz#Prevention_from_editing_Zoophilia is modified to:
Ciz (using whatever account or IP address) is prevented indefinitely from editing Zoophilia and its closely-related articles, or any editing related to the subjects of zoophilia, bestiality, animal sexuality, or human-animal relationships in any article, including their talk pages. Whether an article or page concerns these subjects shall be determined by the enforcing administrator.
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Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Ciz#Attempts_to_edit_Zoophilia is modified to:
If Ciz (using whatever account or IP address) edits Zoophilia or its closely related articles, or makes any edit which relates to zoophilia, bestiality, animal sexuality, or human-animal relationships in any article, or their talk pages, such changes made may be reverted by any editor and any administrator may, at his/her discretion, briefly block Ciz (up to a week in the case of repeat violations). After 5 blocks the maximum block shall increase to one year.
Pigsonthewing30 December 200526 January 2006Upon review of Pigsonthewing'sarticle 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)) Hisprobation does not appear to be going well. In general his contributions elsewhere are divisive, bordering on wikistalking ofKarmafist and possibly other editors, and his continued presence on Wikipedia is clearly creating more heat than light. Accordingly, I move thatWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pigsonthewing be modified include the following remedy:[reply]
Pigsonthewing (talk ·contribs) (using whatever account or IP address) is banned from Wikipedia for a period of one year.
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2005

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Everyking 328 December 200529 December 2005Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Everyking 3 is reopened to modified it to include the following additional remedy:
Everyking shall not interact with, or comment in any way (directly or indirectly) about, Snowspinner, on any page in Wikipedia. Should he do so, he may be blocked by any administrator (other than Snowspinner) for a short time, up to one week; after the fifth such violation, the maximum block length shall be one year.
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Regarding The Bogdanov Affair18 December 200523 December 2005Wikipedia: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-master7 December 200518 December 2005Zen-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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