Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-12-14/Arbitration report
The Report on Lengthy Litigation
The Arbitration Committee closed two cases this week, leaving three open. No cases were opened.
Open cases
Tothwolf
The Tothwolf case has entered its fifth week of deliberations. The case, which concerns a long-standing dispute between Tothwolf and several other editors, was filed by third party Jehochman. Some preliminary workshop drafting has taken place, though no arbitrators have yet responded to any of the proposals; the drafting of a decision has been reassigned to arbitrator Stephen Bain and is expected by 20 December.
Ottava Rima restrictions
The Ottava Rima restrictions case has entered its fifth week of deliberations and its first week of voting. The case was filed by Ottava Rima to appeal an editing restriction imposed following a community discussion on the administrators' noticeboard.
The proposed decision, written by arbitrator Wizardman, would ban Ottava Rima for a period of between three months and one year and place him on probation on his return, while admonishing Moreschi. All of the remedies currently have the majority support of arbitrators, with greater support for a longer ban.
Eastern European mailing list
The Eastern European mailing list case has entered its 13th week of deliberations and its ninth week of voting. The case concerns a set of leaked mailing-list archives, which are alleged to show an extensive history of collusion among numerous editors of Eastern European topics. Standard workshop procedures have been suspended for the case, so the normal drafting of proposals by the parties and other editors has not taken place.
The proposed decision, written by arbitrator Coren, would strip Piotrus of his administrator status, ban him for three months, and place him under a topic ban for one year; ban Digwuren and Martintg for three months, and place them under year-long topic bans; and issue a number of admonishments and reminders, as well as an amnesty for all participants of the mailing list not otherwise sanctioned. Additional proposals made by other arbitrators include bans for Tymek, Jacurek, and Radeksz, as well as more nuanced topic bans for Piotrus and Digwuren. Voting on the proposals remains divided, but a motion to close has two net support votes, with four needed to close the case.
Closed cases
Asmahan
The Asmahan case was closed this week. The decision imposes topic bans and editing restrictions on Supreme Deliciousness and Arab Cowboy, as well as placing the "Asmahan" article on probation.
Socionics
The Socionics case was also closed. The decision bans rmcnew for six months and Tcaudilllg for one year, as well as indefinitely banning them from all Socionics-related topics, pages, and discussions.
Discuss this story