Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-11-08/Arbitration report
No cases this week; Date delinking sanctions reduced for one party; History ban extended
The Arbitration Committee opened no cases this week, leaving none open.
Closed cases
Date delinking (Week 2)
Ohconfucius requested that an amendment be made to relax the restriction which prohibited him from using any automation in the article space.
At the time of writing, only arbitrators had commented on this request. Two arbitrators said they were "impressed with the quality of [Ohconfucius'] contributions since the Date delinking case, and with the tone and substance of [his] comments", and suggested terminating the automation restriction entirely. The Committee followed their suggestion and adopted a motion which terminates the restriction and permits Ohconfucius to use automation subject to community guidelines. Ohconfucius is still indefinitely limited to editing with a single account. Additionally, he is still topic-banned from style and editing guidelines relating to the linking or unlinking of dates, and related discussions.
PHG
Following the 30 March 2010 renewal of his ban on editing articles relating to medieval or ancient history for a period of one year imposed on 14 March 2008, User:Per Honor et Gloria filed an amendment on Tuesday for the topic ban to be lifted. It was decided by unanimous vote of six Arbitrators on 8 November 2010 that the ban be extended indefinitely. PHG's participation is limited to talk pages, subject to civil interaction with fellow editors. The discussion is here.
Ban Appeals Subcommittee appointment
Arbitrator Mailer diablo was appointed by the Arbitration Committee on 7 November to fill the vacancy on the Ban Appeals Subcommittee at least until the end of this year. All subcommittee memberships will be reviewed after the December Arbcom elections.
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