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These editors are the elected members of the Arbitration Committee (known as arbitrators). Votes of the committee are taken among the active members. Members are marked active or inactive so that the majority for new votes can be calculated. Members on wikibreak, not participating in arbitration within the past week, or indicating they will be absent are marked inactive.

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The following list is accurate as of 15 December 2024:

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1. Aoidh (talk · contribs)
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3. CaptainEek (talk · contribs)
4. Guerillero (talk · contribs)
5. HJ Mitchell (talk · contribs)
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9. ToBeFree (talk · contribs)
10. Z1720 (talk · contribs)

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1. Firefly (talk · contribs)
2. L235 (talk · contribs)

Arbitrators-elect (taking office 1 January 2025)

1. Daniel (talk · contribs)
2. Elli (talk · contribs)
3. KrakatoaKatie (talk · contribs)
4. Liz (talk · contribs)
5. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk · contribs)
6. Theleekycauldron (talk · contribs)
7. Worm That Turned (talk · contribs)

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Archives

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Net Four on "Kafziel's AfC actions" request

If I understand correctly (only because I am trying to help clarify for dissenting Arbs) this vote makes the net four procedure no longer valid. Am I correct in this evaluation, or have I missed the fact that the net was valid at one point therefore the procedure is still good to go. Hasteur (talk) 01:27, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes that's correct, although only one more accept vote is needed for their to be a majority to accept. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:33, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Annother ping. It appears that we have Absolute Majority + (24 hours expired since this majority) + (48 hours since request was filed) criteria being fufilled. Any ETA on the case being opened, or is there a behind the scenes discussion by the committee to dispose of the case expediently? Hasteur (talk) 16:35, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

It's more of a behind the scenes discussion regarding who is going to clerk both of the cases open now, and waiting on the Committee to give us the go-ahead to open them. --Rschen7754 21:08, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Apologies for the delay, but I think we have it all figured out, and Kafziel should be opening within about 12 hours or so. --Rschen7754 01:06, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Dan Murphy

Could someone please add the following to the pending case request about Dan Murphy--thanks.

Comment of 50.0.121.102

Since arbcom is the last step of Misplaced Pages dispute resolution, I don't agree with 28bytes' view that off-wiki harassment that chills a Misplaced Pages editor's participation in Misplaced Pages (as surely happened to 28bytes) is outside Arbcom purview. It is clearly within the scope of on-wiki DR. If someone else got outed off-wiki and wanted to pursue on-wiki remedies, they certainly should be entitled to do so. I could go along with Arbcom dropping the case at hand because 28bytes doesn't want to pursue it, and I could see declining it because there haven't been prior attempts at resolution. Normally something like this would first be brought up at AN or ANI, I would think, especially since the relevant private info is already out of the bag. But that's all specific to this particular incident. 50.0.121.102 (talk) 23:09, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

And you are...? --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 09:48, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Kafziel Workshop Closure Date

Per this change which appears to have been conducted behind the scenes, I would like a summary of who requested the change, if the primary clerk for the case (Callanecc) had signed off on this change, if the drafting Arbiter (Risker) approved of this change, what debate there was about said change, why (as the editor primarily bringing the action) that I was not informed of this change, and how I may go about appealing this behind the scenes change. I ask because I've now had to defend myself against a competing set of workshop proposals that reads straight from the viewpoint of Kafziel that would have been ruled outside the workshop deadline as I am assuming good faith at the extension. Hasteur (talk) 15:27, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

This was at the request of Risker, because she has proposals that she wants to make before moving forward with the proposed decision. --Rschen7754 17:34, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

non admin logging DS

Please see and related ANI thread. 12:55, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kafziel/Proposed decision implementation notes

I would like to draw the clerks attention to the implementaion notes on this case. The last note update was over 48 hours ago, and several Arbitrators have voted causing some of the propositions to move into passing, others needing updates on the margins still necessary for passing, and iff supports that need to be indicated. Hasteur (talk) 15:56, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

RfAr: Gun control

I've spoken with Seraphimblade and we concur about extending the closing of the evidence phase until 23:59 (UTC) on 25th January and to push back the other target dates accordingly. I've mentioned this on the case pages here. Could one of the clerks please action this? Thanks v.m.  Roger Davies 07:34, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Arbitration Clerks seeking new volunteers

The Arbitration Committee clerks are currently looking for a few dependable and mature editors willing to serve as clerks. The responsibilities of clerks include opening and closing arbitration cases and motions; notifying parties of cases, decisions, and other committee actions; maintaining the requests for Arbitration pages; preserving order and proper formatting on case pages; and other administrative and related tasks they may be requested to handle by the arbitrators. Clerks are the unsung heroes of the arbitration process, keeping track of details to ensure that requests are handled in a timely and efficient manner. Clerks get front-line seats to the political and ethnic warfare that scorches Misplaced Pages periodically, and, since they aren't arbitrators themselves, are rarely threatened with violence by the participants.

Past clerks have gone on to be (or already were) successful lawyers, naval officers, and Presidents of Wikimedia Chapters. The salary and retirement packages for Clerks rival that of Arbitrators, to boot. Best of all, you get a cool fez!

Please email clerks-llists.wikimedia.org if you are interested in becoming a clerk, and a clerk will reply with an acknowledgement of your message and any questions we want to put to you.

For the Arbitration Committee clerks, Rschen7754 04:59, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Discuss this

Semi-protected edit request on 2 February 2014

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

67.60.15.218 (talk) 19:10, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

You've made no request.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:12, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Partial inactivity

Please note that I've marked myself inactive on new cases, with effect from 16 Feb. Effectively that's everything apart from the Gun control case and the discretionary sanctions review.  Roger Davies 09:48, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

The Mailing List

Is anyone having issues with the mailing list? I sent out an email to the list a few minutes ago, but I didn't get a copy of it sent to me like I normally do.--Rockfang (talk) 19:27, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

I received it. The default setting is to not have it emailed to you. You can also always check the mailing list archives to see if it sent. --Rschen7754 19:56, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. My setting must have been reset or something because I've gotten the emails in the past.--Rockfang (talk) 22:10, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

I also wonder whether something changed on mailman... I had the same issues on two other mailing lists (not this one). Trijnstel_talk 22:31, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

I do not appear to be getting any emails from the list. I checked my list settings on the archive site and they are appear to be fine. Any suggestions?--Rockfang (talk) 22:44, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Log entry removals at WP:ARBATC

On the case page WP:ARBATC, a non-admin editor, NE Ent (), and an editor who is the subject of log entries, Neotarf (), are removing log entries from the arbitration case page, including the log entries of warnings against which the Committee previously declined an appeal. This appears to me to be a disruption of the arbitration process. I am asking arbitration clerks to determine which if any version of the page should be restored. There is also an ongoing WP:ANI discussion about related matters. Thanks,  Sandstein  10:53, 16 March 2014 (UTC)