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Revision as of 16:35, 23 April 2006

This page documents procedures used by the Clerk's Office in assisting the Arbitration Committee.

These procedures, while not policy, are intended for the use of Arbitration clerks and should mainly be edited by them or by members of the Arbitration Committee. Others may edit them, but should not make substantial changes to them without discussing them with the Head Clerk or the Arbitration Committee first.

Opening a case

1. A case should be opened one day after the fourth arbiter has accepted it.
2. Open Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Template and by editing it, copy its contents
3. Make a new page Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/(Name of case)
   • Try to choose a non-offensive name that does not telegraph an opinion; generally, the name(s) of the involved editor(s) is/are used
4. Paste the contents of the template and save
5. Working from the section you opened that contained the request, paste the relevant parts into the new case page
   • Replace party names with {{User:name}} (or {{Admin|name}} or {{Vandal|name}} if appropriate)
   • If there is way too much stuff pick the most relevant parts and put the original on the talk page
6. Don't forget to uncomment the case opened timestamp at the top
7. Save
8. Delete the section off of Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration
9. Next go to Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Template/Evidence and copy the contents
10. Follow the "evidence" link from the page created above and paste the template, correcting the links to "Proposed decision" and "Workshop"
11. Go back to the main page and then follow the "Workshop" link from the main page created above
12. As an alternative to copying and pasting the evidence template and performing edits by hand, you may find it more convenient to type:
    • {{subst:Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Make new evidence page|My new case}}
    • where My new case should be replaced by the case name.
13. Go to Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Template/Workshop and copy the contents to the new Workshop page.
    • where My new case should be replaced by the case name.
14. Repeat for Proposed decision.
    • where My new case should be replaced by the case name.
15. On Proposed decision, calculate recused and active Arbitrators and calculate number of votes required
16. Notify parties and commentators ({{subst:ArbComOpenedParty|My new case}} and {{subst:ArbComOpenedComment|My new case}}; don't forget to subst!)
17. Then fix Template:ArbComOpenTasks ({{subst:ArbComTaskEvidence|My new case|The date}}; don't forget to subst!)

Closing a case

1. Go to the proposed decision page. Click "edit" next to the big "Proposed final decision" header.
2. Copy everything in the edit window, replace all votes with tally numbers, and delete any motions that do not pass or are superceded by other motions.

   Don't forget to remove the "proposed" from the section headers.

3. Go to the main case page, click "edit" next to the big "Proposed final decision" header, and paste.
4. Remove the commented and no-wiki'ed "case closed" notice at the top of the main case page.
5. Notify all parties to the case on their talk pages.
6. Post on WP:AN.
7. Post on "Admin Enforcement Requested" (shortcut WP:RFAr/AER) if appropriate.
8. Add a link to the closed case to Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Completed requests.
9. Update Template:ArbComOpenTasks. It may be a good idea, if you're using clerk tags (see Template:Wpc) to tag the case so people can see who closed the case in addition to when it was closed.

   Remember to prune older closed cases from the list of recently closed cases.

Refactoring evidence

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