Banning Policy was closed on 12 October. Arbcom affirmed that users have "considerable leeway" in terms of how their talk pages are managed. UsersTarc (talk ·contribs),Smallbones (talk ·contribs), andHell in a Bucket (talk ·contribs) were all warned to refrain from edit warring and making inflammatory comments. Tarc was also topic banned from editing any of the administrator's noticeboards orUser talk:Jimbo Wales, and from reinstating any edits that were reverted because they were made by a banned user.
Two new cases have been opened since the last arbitration report.Gender Gap Task Force was opened on 2 October and is in its evidence phase until 17 October.Landmark Worldwide was opened on 16 October and is also currently in the evidence phase.
